TOPS - Bury The Key

Released 22nd August 2025

SK says: 'After rescuing the lockdown summer with 2020'sI Feel Alive, Montreal's TOPS return with their first full-length since. There are elements of the sleek 80s pop members Marta Cikojevic and David Carriere explored on their excellent side project outing as Marci, but the album's star is singer (and sometime flautist) Jane Penny who spearheads the tongue-in-cheek pivot to "evil TOPS" with icy, lovelorn vocals playing against a rumbling low-end that spans loping disco-lite grooves to Sabbath chords.'

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 Montral band: ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evo