It was a banner year for the EP — arguably the best format — and this year’s list features some of the best ambient, club, dream-pop, rap, inexplicably rejected Calm® app submissions, and more of 2022, + a rare unbreakable tie at the top between one of my favorite bands of all time and one of the most exciting new bands of the year...
Montreal's Patrick Holland shares another plush groover from his stellar new album, with a lovely assist on the hook from his TOPS bandmate Jane Penny...
Montreal's TOPS officially announce their new Empty Seats EP with the glorious opening track, a lush, six-and-a-half-minute soft rock gem that the great Jane Penny says is about "some right wing aging loser clinging to their glory days, values out of sync with reality"...