TOPS - Bury The Key (with SIGNED Print) - LP - 'Muck' Colour Vinyl [AUG 22]

LP - Indies Exclusive Limited Edition 'Muck' Colour Vinyl with SIGNED Print. 

• 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: 

Side A
1. Stars Come After You
2. Wheels at Night
3. ICU2
4. Outstanding in the Rain
5. Annihilation
6. Falling on my Sword

Side B
1. Call You Back
2. Chlorine
3. Mean Streak
4. Your Ride
5. Standing at the Edge of Fire
6. Paper House