TOPS - Bury The Key - CD [AUG 22]

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• TOPS emerged from Montréal's DIY scene in the early 2010s (via Arbutus Records) as progenitors of an indie pop sound influencing the contemporary landscape from Men I Trust to Clairo.

• 500k monthly Spotify listeners with several tracks at 30 million+ streams.

• Strong touring history, with dates spanning back as far as 2010 and festival slots that include a 2025 set at Coachella (both weekends).

Description:

TOPS — musicians David Carriere, Jane Penny, Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck — write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. Bury the Key, their first full-length since 2020 and with new label home Ghostly International, is a captivating reintroduction for the Montréal band:ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evolving and testing themselves against different, at times darker tones.The album faces feelings once locked away, engaging the give-and-take between happiness, hedonism, and self-destruction. While often inhabited by fictional figures, their glowing, grooving, self-produced songs draw from personal observations: intimacy (both inside and outside the band), toxic behaviour, drug use, and apocalyptic dread.

 When recording started, they noticed a shift and leaned in, jokingly dubbed "evil TOPS," says Penny. "We're always kind of seen as a soft band or like naive or friendly in a Canadian way, but we made it a challenge to really channel the world around us."
Through the lens of a looming epoch and the clarity that comes with age, TOPS dip into amore sinister disco realm with Bury the Key, giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.

Tracklist: 

1. Stars Come After You
2. Wheels at Night
3. ICU2
4. Outstanding in the Rain
5. Annihilation
6. Falling on my Sword
7. Call You Back
8. Chlorine
9. Mean Streak
10. Your Ride
11. Standing at the Edge of Fire
12. Paper House