Blowin' Up

Tired of Throwin' Up and Growin' Up, Kiwi Jr. are finally Blowin' Up.

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 and lucrative settlement, trudging daylight through clerical quicksand & watching the tides rise up to meet our wheels. Wintering at Detroit's HIGH BIAS Studios, our veteran "Juniors" take stock & make rock, punching the clock with Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) behind the board & Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Silver Jews) fine-tuning the mix. Assembling a local posse for urgent tactical support, Kiwi recruit Detroit's real Big Three - Protomartyr, Stef Chura, Fred Thomas - and beam in additional moonlighters Margaux Bouchaudon of En Attendant Ana, and Kerri Maclellan of Alvvays.

Blowin' Up dissects topical turmoil and asks “who made this big mess?”, predicting on the title track “when detectives get here Monday morning, it’s our fingerprints on the scene.” Bricolaged together from greige 9-5s and bleary-eyed stagetimes, Kiwi file a report from the front, the nonstop Christmas-morning-coal mouthfeel of daily life in ‘25 smashburgered into a diamond-rich slurry: “Language arts on the way out…if you’ve anything clever to say you better say it now” (Landscape with Limousine).

Blowin’ Up is Kiwi Jr. at their most optimistic, earnest beyond their Nielsen rating age demographic: "I am on your side!” they repeat in Painting after Painting, and we believe them; old friends with new songs, Kiwi Jr. is on our side, and they're about to blow up.

Released: August 2026
Cat: KLP321LP
Label: K Records

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Tracklist

1. Photos of the Reenactment
2. Blowin' Up
3. Hard Drive, Ontario
4. Pure Michigan
5. New Jade Rabbit
6. Stage Names
7. Caught in the Wild
8. Painting After Painting
9. World Like Polly
10. Landscape with Limousine