{"id":32969,"date":"2019-12-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32969"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T00:29:48","slug":"kiwi-jr-release-debut-album-title-track-football-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32969","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi Jr. release debut album title-track &#8216;Football Money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Toronto\u2019s Kiwi Jr. have released the title-track lifted from their forthcoming album \u2018Football Money\u2019.\u00a0The single showcases the band\u2019s penchant for writing infectious indie-rock\/garage pop that will stick in your brain on repeat. Listen to <em>Football Money<\/em> via SoundCloud below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Football Money by Persona Non Grata Records\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F635568960&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About the song, Kiwi Jr. have said,\u00a0<em>&#8220;We came up with the concept for this song while in an Uber XL loaded up with all of our gear on the way to a gig at the Silver Dollar (r.i.p.) in Toronto &#8211; the driver was going on about how much soccer player Paul Pogba was being paid and we started thinking about the weight of &#8220;football money&#8221; as controlled, or scaled currency by which to measure things. Musically we came up with something like Superchunk meets the Clean, but I distinctly remember trying to sound early Misfits in the early demo stages.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Football Money <\/em>is the follow up to <a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail19.com\/t\/j-l-cjuddid-ejlihlkhu-d\/\"><em>Salary Man<\/em><\/a>, which CLASH labeled\u00a0<em>&#8220;a gloriously raggedy piece of indie pop that recalls early R.E.M. and Pavement singles in its Rickenbacker sweep.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Football Money will have its world-wide release\u00a0<a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">on January 17th<\/a>\u00a0via Persona Non Grata Records. The album had a Canadian release this past March via Mint Records. The album was engineered by Aaron Goldstein, and mixed by Holy Fuck&#8217;s Graham Walsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band have been confirmed to play SXSW in Austin, Texas in March 2020. Before that, they&#8217;ll head over to the UK for shows in Glasgow, Manchester, and at London&#8217;s Waiting Room&nbsp;<a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/3\">on January 29th 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All natives of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Kiwi Jr. are now based in Toronto and much of their songwriting is informed by the city that surrounds them. They have spent the last 5 years honing their craft both in the studio and live, including opening spots with Wolf Parade, New Pornographers and Alvvays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Football Money<\/em>&nbsp;was recreated at high volume on stages across Canada; 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, the LP 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiwi Jr,:\u00a0Rickenbackers detuned to the frequency of a blue-screen migraine, equal parts jangle and punk\u00a0&#8211; a modern day Modern Lovers with the Kinks cc\u2019d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UK 2020\u00a0tour dates<\/strong><br>27\/1\u00a0&#8211; Glasgow, Hug &amp; Pint<br>28\/1\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Manchester,\u00a0Gulliver\u2019s<br>29\/1\u00a0&#8211; London,\u00a0Waiting Room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Toronto\u2019s Kiwi Jr. have released the title-track lifted from their forthcoming album \u2018Football Money\u2019.\u00a0The single showcases the band\u2019s penchant for writing infectious indie-rock\/garage pop that <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32969\" title=\"Kiwi Jr. release debut album title-track &#8216;Football Money&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Culture Addicts: Kiwi Jr. release debut album title-track 'Football Money'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30],"tags":[8729,8730],"class_list":["post-32969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-football-money","tag-kiwi-jr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4DC39D29-640D-4186-829C-4E8449194B38.jpeg?fit=640%2C480","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-8zL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33103,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33103","url_meta":{"origin":32969,"position":0},"title":"Long Winter announces event at Gladstone Hotel featuring Korea Town Acid, Boosie Fade, No Frills + more","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"December 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Long Winter\u00a0has announced the third event of its 2019-2020 series that will take place at the\u00a0Gladstone Hotel on January 11. 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