TOPS

Beacon was recorded and mixed at The Bottle Garden studio in Montreal during the winter of 2016. The Bottle Garden is a gem of a studio, a shrine to analogue tape and equipment hiding just below the noses of passersby on a busy street in the Mile End...

As the internet's collective attention span continues to dwindle away and the clickbait economy slowly ruins everything good, we made a conscious effort this year to spend more time listening to fewer things. Discovering new favorites will always remain a priority around here, but it felt good to devote more quality time to absorbing ambitious, flawed, elaborately nuanced and layered masterpieces

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 ("Daygl

Hear another gem from TOPS' resplendent Sugar at the Gate, finally out next week on Arbutus:

In an insane year of new music (SO FAR), TOPS' Sugar at the Gate remains near the very top of the list of our favorite records of the year. Today, the group shares another single from the album, the gorgeous, soaring, awesomely titled and wonderfully shoegaze-y "Dayglow Bimbo"...

TOPS share the Jane Penny-directed video for the first single from our favorite record of 2017 (so far duh), Sugar at the Gate:

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 forthcom

Bobbypin is the sophistipop solo project of ex-TOPS bassist/current Berlin resident Alana Marta DeVito. Her debut EP Sketches from a Terrace is due sometime this fall, and we're psyched to share the alluringly elegant lead single "Consequence"...

Psyched to debut this elegant, effortlessly melodic soft-funk jam that we've had on repeat for the last week or so, from Montreal’s Exit Someone, the new project from Thom Gillies (ex-TOPS, Vesuvio Solo) and June Moon (Forever). “Sydney, the List Goes On” is the duo's first song (as far as we know), recorded at Bottle Garden Studio in Montreal, and it's a smooth and relaxed glide that keeps it jus