It’s the return of Kiwi Jr. with it’s first new music since releasing its 2022 Chopper. The new song, “Hard Drive Ontario,” was released today but there’s no further information as to when the band will release its fourth album.

Of the song singer/guitarist Jeremy Gaudet says:  “The idea for the lyric came when I saw a wifi password on the side of a barn off a dirt road somewhere. It’s about how you can’t quit and restart somewhere else anymore, and how locked in we all are by the internet, even way out in the country.  It tells the story of some young people trying to live a fantasy old country life, sort of city slickers cosplaying as hillbillies, but then it turns into a horror movie at the end when they run out of gas and meet some bad people out on the road.”

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. The band’s third album, Chopper, overseen by producer Dan Boeckner was released on Sub Pop Records in 2022.