Having recently signed to Ghostly International, TOPS – Jane Penny, David Carriere, Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck – have announced their next album, Bury the Key. The follow-up to 2020’s I Feel Alive arrives on August 22. It includes the previously released single ‘ICU2’, as well as a new song, the infectious and nostalgic ‘Chlorine’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“At one point, I was caught in a cycle of going out to the bar hoping that I would cross paths with a certain person who was not good for me but who I felt irresistibly drawn to,” Penny said of ‘Chlorine’ in a press release. ” I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, where it’s very cold, and I used to go to the pool a lot in the winter. It’s also where I first started going to bars to drink with my friends. I was thinking about alcohol and chlorine both being poison, thinking about all the people that I’ve tried to be close to that have ended up being bad for me, how I still love them all, and I wrote the song ‘Chlorine’.”
Penny described the new album as “evil TOPS,” adding, “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.”
Bury the Key Cover Artwork:
Bury the Key Tracklist:
1. Stars Come After You
2. Wheels at Night
3. ICU2
4. Outstanding in the Rain
5. Annihilation
6. Falling on my Sword
7. Call You Back
8. Chlorine
9. Mean Streak
10. Your Ride
11. Standing at the Edge of Fire
12. Paper House
