From Toronto-via-PEI, KIWI JR. released their second album Cooler Returns on Sub Pop Records in January 2021.

"A jangly, indie rock earworm that’ll lodge itself in your brain" - NME

"Kiwi Jr. songs unfold like the aisles of a cluttered curio shop, their retro-rock melodies overflowing with non sequiturs and hyper-specific scraps of story." - AV Club

"An impatient, slacker-rock imagining of a folk album....some chords ring out with George Harrison glossiness while others are as shaggy and impetuous as The Clean —rarely do hi-fi and lo-fi splendors coexist so harmoniously." - Pitchfork