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The album can, in fact, be treated as a concept album about the capacity for change that lies at the heart of even the most hard-boiled and unsympathetic of men, the kind we meet straight away on ‘Ain’t Nice’ and ‘Toad’. When ‘Into The Sun’ introduces us to a similar figure having a Damascene moment in which he realises the damage he has caused, we realise that we are, in fact, following a single flawed protagonist: an aging huckster who loves nothing but his ...

Every day we highlight great new music added to the Double J playlist. New to Double J?   to learn how to tune in, no matter where you are. Canada is a country that sits just north of America. They hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1994. They experience weather colder than that of Australia. Its a good country. Kiwi Jr. are the latest reason that were feeling appreciation for the Great White North right now. A four-piece band from Toronto that is ramshackle in all the right ways, and slick in ...

Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns (Album Review) Wednesday, 27 January 2021 Written by Huw Baines Indie-rock is full of carefully disguised traps designed to ensnare posers and almost-there tribute acts: bands can be too clever, or too dumb, sound too much like their influences, or sound too little like themselves after a couple of records. By accident or design Kiwi Jr. stray into these crosshairs all the time, but whenever the moment to pull the trigger strikes they ricochet off into ...

Reviews / / 21 · 01 · 2021 Kiwi Jr.’s self-released debut album ‘Football Money’ arrived just last year. In our 8/10 review, we described it as “one of those rare albums that gets better the more you play it.” Now, in keeping with the financially titled narrative of their debut, the band have coolly returned to disseminate this years annual report to the shareholders, burying the incriminating numbers in the endless appendices of their so...

Features / / 19 · 01 · 2021 Melding together renowned musical influences such as The Kinks with more modern contemporaries like Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Canada-hailing Kiwi Jr. have garnered praise for their jangly sound, left-field observations and their firm grasp of humour they exhibit in their work. Their self-released debut album arrived just last year, but the four-piece have been hot on their heels to produce a quick follow-up. Now signed to Sub Po...