Since listening for the first time to TOPS album – Picture You Staring (released in 2014) I am absolutely hooked on the enchanthing and intriguing voice of singer Jane Penny and the band´s sound that feels soothing and melancholical at the same time.
Now three years later Jane Penny, Riley Fleck, David Carriere and Jackson MacIntosh are about to drop a new album named Sugar at the Gate. And I am already hooked again. Petals is their first release out of it and is about capturing the energy and positive feelings of the band as they explain in an interview with Dazed Magazine. “TOPS, in some ways, can feel light and fun, but we do have a concern with the world and have something that we want to say and express. Sugar at the Gate references what we are and how we’re perceived, but it’s also a strange package of words – which I think is what TOPS is, if you go a little deeper.” The video has been directed by Jane herself and is shoot on 35 mm.
Best news at last: TOPS are coming to Europe to play some gigs and we raffle 1 x 2 tickets for the Hamburg concert on the June 9th at the Uebel & Gefaehrlich. To participate just drop us an email to contact at c-heads.com with the subject line TOPS. Raffle ends on 25.04.2017 and the winner will be notified via email. Good Luck!
Sugar at the Gate will be released on Arbutus Records on June 2
image credit: Chantal_Africa
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