Football Money

With easy hooks, surprise structural twists, and a gift for non-sequiturs, the Canadian quartet’s debut is a vivid portrait of the big-city struggle. Pavement’s influence is impossible to ignore.

Enough charm and wit to remind us of the importance to having a little fun along the way.

With their long-labored debut Football Money, Canadian indie quartet Kiwi Jr. continue a long lineage of a very specific brand of smart, ennui-riddled pop.

Kiwi Jr. have alluded that their debut album would be something of an homage to the city of Toronto, where the former East coasters had rece...

There is something about Kiwi Jr. that is hard to ignore. They sound like a mixture of all the best bits of R.E.M., The Kinks, The Strokes, The Modern

Confidently channeling the slacker ethos of Pavement, uptempo guitars of the Strokes, the English mod revival of the Jam, the sweeping jangle pop of...

Football Money by Kiwi Jr. album review by Adam Williams. The bands debut full-length is now out via MintPersona Non Grata records

Album Reviews: Kiwi Jr - Football Money

The Canadian band channel Kinks and Pavement in a 30-minute burst of new wave