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TOPS by Aabid Youssef
SIGNS TO GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
“Near-perfect songwriting” – Pitchfork
“Sophisticated production, nostalgic synths and gorgeous tunes” – The Guardian
TOPS announces their signing to Ghostly International with a new single titled “ICU2.” The release comes on the heels of their appearance at Coachella, where they debuted the track live.
TOPS — musicians David Carriere, Jane Penny, Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck — write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. Emerging from Montréal’s DIY scene in the early 2010s as progenitors of an indie pop sound still radiating its influence across the contemporary landscape, their secret to longevity is simple: keep the songwriting honest and open-hearted and the recording unforced yet pristine, allowing for a band dynamic deeply attuned at every level. Their glowing, grooving, self-produced songs outline the silhouettes of life, and as time goes on, TOPS have only gotten better at what they do. Their signing to Ghostly marks the start of a new chapter and their first new music since 2022’s self-released Empty Seats EP.
New single “ICU2” is pure flirtation, a classic uptempo TOPS song sprung from a playful exchange between Jane Penny and Marta Cikojevic. Beneath the grooves, though, the hide-and-seek club scene hints at a hall of mirrors, “almost like a caper, fantastical, like you’ve been caught searching for something in the dark,” says Penny, citing the art house psychedelia of the party scene in Midnight Cowboy (1969). The song arrives alongside a throwback music video; enter the world of the crate and see what magic unfolds.
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