TOPS Announce New Album Bury the Key
Listen to "Chlorine" below.
Photo by Nori Rasmussen-Martinez
Today, Canadian band TOPS—Jane Penny, David Carriere, Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck—have announced their next album, Bury the Key. The 12-song LP will arrive August 22 via Secretly Canadian, and Penny says of the project: “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.” Accompanying the news is focus track and second single (following “ICU2”) “Chlorine.”
Penny says about “Chlorine”: “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. 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.'”
Listen to “Chlorine” and check out the Bury the Key artwork, tracklist, and TOPS’ tour dates below.