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At a glance, Kiwi Jr.'s music scans as a retro revival of '60s pop sweetness and '90s slacker rock swagger — especially since frontman Jerem...

7.5/10 Kiwi Jr.’s debut Football Money may have given the impression in places that it was a little fingers and thumbs, but it sounded no worse for it. Indebted to the bookish nineties’ slacker rock of Pavement and Sebadoh – and by extension moving alongside Parquet Courts and latterly Rolling Blackouts, Coastal Fever – it steered through a territory which has become somewhat, if only by dint of numbers, under-represented in the last few years. One of the reasons for the musical deforestation is that these sort of languorous nerd-outs are much harder to pull off successfully than ...

3 months ago Kiwi Jr. photo by Warren Calbeck There’s a lot of history caked into Toronto quartet Kiwi Jr.’s sophomore LP, Cooler Returns. Sewn into a jangly bed of 12-string guitars, folksy harmonica melodies, and ’60-leaning Farfisa lines, vocalist-guitarist Jeremy Gaudet lyrics casually wax nostalgic on last year’s Super Bowl (“Cooler Returns”); a loneliness felt back in 2017 (“Maid Marian’s Toast”); the devastating fires at the Glasgow School of Art in both 2014 and 2018 (“Undecided Voters”); and one particular viaduct’s salutatory graffiti scrawl of “Long Live ...