Montreal's TOPS announce the launch of their brand new label Musique TOPS with the release of a sweet new double A-side 7", featuring the beautifully tender love song "Echo of Dawn" and the infectious groove of self-described "imposter syndrome anthem" "Seven Minutes. Listen to both songs below, and look out for more from TOPS coming in 2020 (including a U.S. tour!):
Taken from Sorry Girls' debut LP Deborah, coming 10/18 on Arbutus. Video directed by the group's Heather Foster Kirkpatrick with Lara Olanick, "shot on an iPhone6 and inspired by the Magritte painting Les Amants":
Daniel Benjamin aka Moon King follows up last summer's Hamtramck '16 with a slinky, slightly uneasy dance-pop jam, featuring the great David Carriere of TOPS on guitar. There's a pensive, disillusioned vibe to "I've Stopped Believing", which deals with Daniel decamping from Toronto to live in Detroit's Hamtramck neighborhood after feeling let down by his suddenly unrecognizable hometown. He tells us about the track:
TOPS' Sugar At the Gate highlight gets a lovely video, directed by the group's own Jane Penny, and starring Ellise Barbara, Riley Fleck + Jackson MacIntosh:
Our album of the summer is here: Montreal's TOPS drop their best full-length yet, a timeless collection of breezy, instantly familiar pop jams (see "Petals", "Cutlass Cruiser"), intoxicating slow-burners that only reveal their true magic after you've earned it with your time and undivided attention, and a few stellar tracks that defy either of these classifications ("Dayglow Bimbo", "Topless")...
We are beyond psyched to premiere the new single from one of our favorite bands of the last half-decade or so, Montreal's TOPS. "Petals" is a sinuous, timeless soft-funk-pop jam with some of the most bitingly relatable lyrics you'll hear in 2017 -- “got a phone full of numbers and a list full of names / no one to call / not much to say, anyway” -- taken from the group's stellar forthcoming album Sugar at the Gate, which was recorded in LA at a spot called "Glamdale," a mini-mansion and former brothel out in Glendale...