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Twin SceneNo algorithms · No ads · No corporate overlords
Created and maintained by Alex at the Birdhaus
Friday, September 18 · Cloudland Theater
Doors 7:30pm
Indie PopJangle Rock21+
★ racket - Kiwi Jr. frontman Jeremy Gaudet still sounds a little too “uncanny valley Steve Malkmus” for me, but I’ve come around to this Toronto band after a couple listens to the sprightly jangle-pop of their latest, Blowin’ Up. I’m especially fond of the one about the Michigan kid who crosses the border into Windsor, Ontario, to get wasted. Two great Minneapolis bands round out the lineup—the even more jangly Real Numbers, who recently released a sharp new album called Was It Always This Way, and and the even poppier Sandpaper.
$14.18 adv
Refracting the realities of late-capitalist city life and the impossibility of work-art balance in a high-rent metropolis through satire and sarcasm, Toronto’s Kiwi Jr. has shaped their own deadpan postmodern indie rock. Confronting the desperate neon of a guitar group approaching statesmen status on their fourth album, Kiwi screech sideways to make the last exit to Michigan, laying down 10 drivetime highlights daydreaming of a sweet spot between swift pain & lucrative settlement, trudging daylight through clerical quicksand & watching the tides rise up to meet our wheels. Minneapolis' Real Numbers return with a new full length album, the gorgeously pop-tastic “Was It Always This Way.” Ten expectant, exuberant songs mixing hope and despair, the future and the past, drawing inspiration from the best of UK indiepop. While definitely picking up where their 2021 EP "Brighter Then" left off, the emphasis this time is on multi-layered guitars intended to complement the wistful and melancholy tracks with glittering awe. Lyrical themes include modern fame, mixing opposites and reckoning with your own significance, guaranteed to appeal to fans of Sarah, Creation, and Elefant Records. Sandpaper plays fun fuzzy rock songs in and about Minneapolis. Other topics include idling cars, magnets, and air conditioning. featuring members of Products Band
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