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: Artist......: Kiwi jr.
: Album.......: Cooler Returns :
: Label.......: Sub Pop .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Indie :
Catnr.......: SP1400 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2021-02-03
Str.date....: 2021-01-22
Quality.....: 278kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
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1. Tyler 2:05
2. Undecided Voters 2:29
3. Maid Marian's Toast 2:23
4. Highlights of 100 2:38
5. Only Here for a Haircut 3:08
6. Cooler Returns 3:53
7. Guilty Party 2:17
8. Omaha 2:34
9. Domino 2:11
10. Nashville Wedding 3:14
11. Dodger 2:36
12. Norma Jean's Jacket 3:10
13. Waiting in Line 3:30
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\ / ________ Runtime 36:08
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,: Buildings burning in every direction; macabre unknowns in your :,
: friendly neighborÆs basement; undecided voters sharpening their :
:' pencils: under pressure we could call Kiwi JrÆs Cooler Returns ':
,: ôtimely.ö But what year is it, again? On their sophomoric :,
: smash-up released world-wide by Sub Pop Records, Kiwi Jr cycle :
:' through the recent zigs & looming zags of the new decade, ':
,: squinting anew at New YearÆs parties forgotten and :,
: under-investigated small town diner fires, piecing together :
:' low-stakes conspiracy theories on whatÆs coming down the pike ':
,: in 2021. Put together like a thousand-piece puzzle, assembled in :,
: flow state through the first dull stretch of quarantine, :
:' sanitized singer shuffling to sanitized studio by streetcar, ':
,: masked like itÆs the kind of work where getting recognized means :,
: getting killed, Cooler Returns materializes as a sprawling :
:' survey from the first few bites of the terrible twenties, an ':
,: investigative exposΘ of recent history buried under the :,
: headlines & ancient kings buried under parking lots. :
:' ':
,: Not so long since their debut Football Money in archaeological :,
: time, unending gray eons later in the dog years of quaran-time, :
:' spiritually antipodean Canadians Kiwi Jr return to disseminate ':
,: this yearÆs annual report to the shareholders, burying the :,
: incriminating numbers in the endless appendices of a longform :
:' narrative record, a 3,000 word tract for stakeholders to pore ':
,: over. Opener ôTylerö builds a Frankenstein of all your musician :,
: exes; donÆt you remember ôfalling apart in the green room while :
:' they drank half the headlinerÆs rider?ö In ôWaiting In Lineö ':
,: weÆre still slumbering at the bar, agitation skyrocketing :,
: contemplating ôwhat breed of beast protects the back door.ö We :
:' hear ôit isnÆt past until it burns,ö in ôMaid MarianÆs Toastö ':
,: but what explains the accompanying & extensive itinerary of :,
: incinerated Eastern Canadian eateries? Investigated off the :
:' clock by KiwiÆs amateur arson division, suspicion is cast on ':
,: all: The Cook, The Regular : Ms. Scarlett, Colonel Mustard. :,
: Throughout these crises, histories, and head games Kiwi Jr. :
:' donÆt expect you to be taking notes or checking dates - and on ':
,: the back nine, when ôOmahaö demands proof that ôWoodstock ever :,
: happened in the first place,ö perhaps the freewheeling guitar :
:' groove underfoot tells us all we need to know about whoÆs been ':
,: flipping through the festival files, air-drumming along to the :,
: complete 10-CD set. These stories - memories of Augusts past, :
:' unrepressed & transcribed fast - go down easier thanks to ':
,: meaningful changes enacted in 2019Æs KiwiCares Pledge: :,
: delivering on a promise to transition from Crunchy to Smooth by :
:' 2021, the caveman chug of Football Money has been steamed & ':
,: pressed with the purifying air of a saloon piano - operated with :,
: bow-tie untied - and a spring green side-salad of tentatively :
:' up-tempo organ taps & freshly fluted harmonica. ':
,: :,
: A chronically detuned spin of the dial through swivel-chair :
:' distractions & WFH daydreams, an immersive ctrl-tab deluge ':
,: cycling through popular listicle distractions like the :,
: unentombing of Richard III, or the deja vu destruction of the :
:' Glasgow School of Art, Kiwi Jr sing this song to an indoor ':
,: audience, crisscrossing canceled, every other prestige :,
: distraction source wrung dry, only songwriting remaining to :
:' deliver engrossing tales to the populace, just how I imagine it ':
,: worked in the old days. Fixing loose ingredients into a sturdy :,
: whip, Kiwi Jr beam in live from the 9-5, striding into 2021 with :
:' a mastered brainwave that comes equally from the back room of ':
,: the record store as the penalty box. And how do we, left holding :,
: this box of deliberate entanglements, sign off to those as yet :
:' uninitiated, undecided, uncertain, unseen, absent return ':
,: coordinates - Best Wishes, Warm Regards, Good Luck? Cooler :,
: Returns, Cooler Returns, C o o l e r R e t u r n s ! :
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