Reviews / / 21 · 01 · 2021 Kiwi Jr.âs self-released debut album âFootball Moneyâ arrived just last year. In our 8/10 review, we described it as âone of those rare albums that gets better the more you play it.â Now, in keeping with the financially titled narrative of their debut, the band have coolly returned to disseminate this year's annual report to the shareholders, burying the incriminating numbers in the endless appendices of their sophomore longform record âCooler Returns.â Having recently signed to Sub Pop (Fleet Foxes, Marika Hackman, Constantines, Nirvana), the Canadian four-piece recorded their latest work through the first stretch of quarantine last year in what they describe in a press release as a âsanitised singer shuffling to sanitised studio by streetcar flow state.â This sanitisation, thankfully, doesnât permeate through their new album; itâs crammed full of wry, observational wit and pop smarts in taut fashion, nodding its head to musical influences both past and present as it embarks on its blink-and-youâll-miss-it survey of the first few bites of the twenties.