Sometimes inspiration arrives when you least expect it.
“The idea for ‘Hard Drive, Ontario’ came when I saw a Wi-Fi password on the side of a barn off a dirt road somewhere,” says Kiwi Jr. singer/guitarist Jeremy Gaudet. “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 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.”
After its widely praised 2019 *Mint* debut and a pair of solid releases for Sub Pop that drew favorable comparisons to everyone from Pavement to The Strokes, the Toronto-based quartet is hard at work on a new album. And it sure sounds like a fresh start on “Hard Drive, Ontario,” an unwieldy track that represents a first for Kiwi Jr.
“We’re stretching out by creating mini movements within the song and switching time signatures back and forth,” says Gaudet. “That’s not something we’ve done before.”
We’re proud to premiere Kiwi Jr.’s “Hard Drive, Ontario.” Look for a new LP sometime next year.