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.
Bury the Key Tracklist: Stars Come After You Wheels at Night ICU2 Outstanding in the Rain Annihilation Falling on My Sword Call You Back Chlorine Mean Streak Your Ride Standing at the Edge of Fire Paper House
TOPS’ Upcoming Tour Dates: 9/4 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre 9/5 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 9/6 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile (EARLY SHOW) 9/8 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 9/9 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater 9/11 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada – Outdoor Stage 9/12 – Houston, TX @ Heights Theater 9/14 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace 9/15 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress 9/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom 9/18 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up 9/19 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 9/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether 10/1 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall 10/2 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair 10/3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts 10/4 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage 10/6 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall 10/7 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall 10/8 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West 10/9 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In 10/11 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival 10/14 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 10/16 – Detroit, MI @ El Club 10/17 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre 10/18 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield 11/10 – Brighton, UK @ Patterns 11/11 – London, UK @ Heaven 11/13 – Dublin, IE @ Workmans Club 11/14 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo 11/15 – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall 11/17 – Leeds, UK @ The Brudenell Social Club 11/18 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade 11/20 – Kortrijk, BE @ Wilde Westen 11/21 – Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere 11/22 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique 11/23 – Vlaardingen, NL @ De Kroepoekfabriek 11/24 – Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher 11/26 – Berlin, DE @ Neue Zukunft
