TOPS

Upcoming shows

10.11.2025
Patterns - Brighton (uk)
11.11.2025
Heaven - London (uk)
13.11.2025
Workmans Club - Dublin (ie)
14.11.2025
Stereo - Glasgow (uk)
15.11.2025
Band on the Wall - Manchester (uk)
17.11.2025
The Brudenell Social Club - Leeds (uk)
18.11.2025
Rough Trade Bristol - Bristol (uk)
20.11.2025
Wilde Westen - Kortrijk (be)
21.11.2025
Point Éphémère - Paris (fr)
22.11.2025
Botanique @ Rotonde - Brussel (be)
23.11.2025
De Kroepoekfabriek - Vlaardingen (nl)
24.11.2025
Nochtspeicher - Hamburg (de)
26.11.2025
Neue Zukunft - Berlin (de)
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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 behavior, 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 a more sinister disco realm with Bury the Key, giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.

 

 

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Releases

I Feel Alive
Musique TOPS(2020)
Tender You Staring
Arbutus Records(2017)
Sugar At The Gate
Arbutus Records(2014)
Tender Opposites
Atelier Ciseaux(2012)