Kiwi Jr. – “Hard Drive, Ontario” [Video]

Kiwi Jr. Hit the Gas and Get Weird in “Hard Drive, Ontario”

Kiwi Jr. just dropped the video for their new single “Hard Drive, Ontario,” and it’s a total blast. The band spent an afternoon racing go-karts in Niagara Falls with director Sean Foreman calling the shots, and the finished clip captures that goofy, adrenaline-buzzing spirit. They swear those things hit 40 km an hour, even if it looks more like bumper-car chaos on camera. Walker was locked in to win from the start, while Jeremy wound up with a sputtering kart blowing fumes behind him like a tired dragon.

The shoot gets even better thanks to a curveball cameo. Blake, the camera operator, invited his uncle (a bearded Elvis impersonator who is easily a few decades older than peak Elvis) and he steals every frame he wanders into. His grandfather shows up too, waving the checkered flag with the kind of enthusiasm you can’t fake. It’s the kind of oddball charm Kiwi Jr. do so well.

There’s also a little baseball superstition woven in. With the Blue Jays playing in the World Series at the time, Walker threw on his trusty Jays jacket for luck. Jeremy grabbed a fur hat right before filming because… why not? Sometimes you just follow a wild impulse and hope it lands, and in this case, it totally does. Oh yeah, the new track is also killer indie rock!

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