Two Saviors (Keeled Scales)
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Kiwi Jr. are the latest reason that we re 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 a way that won t make you queasy. Cooler Returns is the title track from their new album – and Sub Pop debut – and it s just the kind of charming, shabby, relatable and clever indie rock song that you can fall in love with.
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 some other thing entirely.
With their second album, ‘Cooler Returns’, they prove themselves adept at evoking Jonathan Richman’s speak-sing poppiness and the antic jangle of Parquet Courts, anchoring each segue to singer Jeremy Gaudet’s slate of zingers and sharp hooks.