Kiwi Jr. ‎– Football Money LP

“A gloriously raggedy piece of indie pop, one that recalls everyone from early R.E.M. to those imperial Pavement singles in its Rickenbacker sweep.” - Clash magazine

"Featuring members of Alvvays, this Canadian band offer delightfully sharp indie-pop." - The I Paper

"Truly infectious” - The Wire magazine

Following up their release of Pip Blom’s Paycheck, another amazing debut from Persona Non Grata Records. Toronto’s Kiwi Jr. presents Football Money: a dispatch stitched out of fragments, a lustrous twelve-string paint-job unraveling ten booksmart tracks in under thirty minutes. A product of two years of labor, a monument to work-life balance, the record is not unattractively scarred by its circumstance : recorded by nightfall in dormant studios, friends and enemies drafted as backup singers and engineers, Football Money untidily fuses the yin of work with the yang of life, chronicling a dual-existence, unkempt instrumentalists moonlighting as undercompensated administrators by the harsh fluorescent light of day, borne back ceaselessly into the Greater Toronto Area by night… Built from the clay of the day-to-day - as attentive to the complexities of a sporting salary cap as to the mystery of love; to the burden of Toronto rent as the reality of ruin- it’s a record of modern creation, lyrics text-wrapped in Excel spreadsheet cells, Rickenbackers detuned to the frequency of a blue-screen migraine. Kiwi kritiks delineate influences like sections of the cow - the rump: JANGLE; the loin: PUNK - and seem set on referring Football Money to the criminal court with the Modern Lovers and the Kinks cc’d but ultimately unable to prove intent. But Kiwi Jr. conjure what we think about when we think about Patricia Highsmith paperbacks, Peel Session Comps, and pitchers of cheap domestic : Football Money is a laser cold hit.

• Jangly power pop and hyperliterate college rock from Toronto featuring a member of Alvvays

• Produced by Aaron Goldstein (Daniel Romano, City And Colour) and mixed by Graham Walsh (Preoccupations, METZ)

• Additional instrumentation and production from Alec O’Hanley (Alvvays)

Label: Mint Records (12) ‎– MRL184
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Canada
Released: 29 Mar 2019
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Power Pop, Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist

A1 Murder In The Cathedral
A2 Leslie
A3 Salary Man
A4 Gimme More
A5 Comeback Baby
A6 Soft Water Apple
B1 Football Money
B2 Nothing Changes
B3 Swimming Pool
B4 Wicked Witches