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TOPS

Empty Seats - 2026 Repress

Ghostly International

A companion to the 2020 album 'I Feel Alive', the long sold-out 'Empty Seats' is a fan favorite release, containing some of the band’s most pointed and effervescent material, drawing comparisons to bands like The Whitest Boy Alive and Men I Trust. As the bio says, with a heart firmly attached to their sleeves, their song-craft delves into the emotional intricacy of personal relationships, asking questions about power and desire. Riley Fleck’s measured drumming and David Carriere’s trademark guitar licks mesh with Marta Cikojevic’s lush keyboards. All these elements work in tandem and in service of Jane Penny’s unmistakable, wistful voice. The result of this mixture is a collection of four self-produced records and a handful of singles that cover a range of moods and a complex emotional realm while maintaining a groove and musicality.

TRACK LISTING

1. Perfected Steps
2. Janet Planet
3. Waiting
4. Party Again
5. Future Waits

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Cover of The Beltway Is Burning by Ekko Astral.

Ekko Astral

The Beltway Is Burning

Topshelf Records

When Ekko Astral dropped their searing debut 'Pink Balloons' in 2024, it would be another year and change before Trump took office and deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Recorded immediately after the 2024 U.S. General Election, Ekko Astral’s second album 'The Beltway Is Burning' was always intended as a real-time historical document in the form of a dark comedy. Each song plays out like a vignette, with Ekko Astral beckoning listeners into their fictionalized version of The Beltway, in which Adam Sandler is a god-president and the DMV has become a demilitarized zone, a wasteland run by butt rockers and Soundcloud rappers. On the surrealist lead single 'Lil Xan Goes To Washington', the titular character travels to D.C. to lobby for addiction assistance legislation before succumbing to the cartoonish horror that is K Street, ultimately becoming a sellout himself. Such noisy, absurd caricatures abound on beltway, whose anchors are simultaneously heavier, poppier, and more complex than on predecessor pink balloons. Take the album’s pop diamond 'Lovesick American Romance': a 90s rock-indebted anthem that snarls at mainstream culture’s embrace of the manosphere. And then there’s the album’s centerpiece, 'This Is Not A Call To Action But A Lamentation On The Situation At Hand (Or, Capital Riot)', which sees the band take an entirely new direction in a stretched-out, climactic barn-burner that invites listeners into the band’s funhouse version of D.C. Where 'Pink Balloons' was written to uplift, 'The Beltway Is Burning' is meant to remind you of the stakes. On penultimate track 'Blood Mountain', Holzman asks “if I don’t know what’s wrong / how can it be righted?” This kind of tension is omnipresent in Ekko Astral’s work, grounding beltway in our present reality, injecting urgency and realism into each song despite their surrealist contours.

TRACK LISTING

1. Body Generation
2. Lil Xan Goes To Washington
3. Horseglue
4. Beltway
5. WMATA
6. This Is Not A Call To Action But A Lamentation On The Situation At Hand (Or, Capital Riot)
7. Elegy For A System
8. Lovesick American Romance
9. Dude With Guitars
10. Sandler '36
11. Blood Mountain
12. Comet Ping Pong

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Cover of I Feel Alive - 2026 Repress by TOPS.

TOPS

I Feel Alive - 2026 Repress

Ghostly International

Released in 2020, 'I Feel Alive' marks a shimmering return for Montreal indie-pop band TOPS, blending their signature soft-focus synths, bright guitar lines, and Jane Penny’s emotionally direct vocals into their most vibrant work yet. The album balances glossy pop warmth with introspective lyricism, exploring themes of desire, transformation, and self-realization. With a sound that feels both nostalgic and refreshingly modern, 'I Feel Alive' captures the band at a new creative peak—lush, intimate, and effortlessly cool, reaffirming TOPS as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary dream-pop.

TRACK LISTING

1. Direct Sunlight
2. I Feel Alive
3. Pirouette
4. Ballads & Sad Movies
5. Colder & Closer
6. Witching Hour
7. Take Down
8. Drowning In Paradise
9. OK Fine Whatever
10. Looking To Remember
11. Too Much

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Cover of Bathes And Listens by Maneka.

Maneka

Bathes And Listens

Topshelf Records

On his fourth solo album 'Bathes and Listens', former Speedy Ortiz guitarist Devin McKnight focuses his vision on Maneka’s musical identity, resulting in a body of work that tests the extremes of McKnight’s songwriting talent. Elements of shoegaze and slowcore are prominent, but engineer Alex Farrar's exceptional production (Wednesday, Snail Mail, MJ Lenderman) makes bathes and listens cohesive, yet still distinct from any one style.

TRACK LISTING

1. Shallowing
2. Dimelo
3. Sad Bot
4. The Cry That Came
5. Pony
6. Yung Yeller
7. Throwing Ax
8. 5225
9. Why I Play 2K/Land Back

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Cover of Bury The Key by TOPS.

TOPS

Bury The Key

Ghostly International

TOPS — musicians David Carriere, Jane Penny,Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck — write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. 'Bury the Key', their first full-length since 2020 and with new label home Ghostly International, is a captivating reintroduction for the Montréal band:ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evolving and testing themselves against different, at times darker tones.The album faces feelings once locked away,engaging the give-and-take between happiness,hedonism, and self-destruction. While often inhabited by fictional figures, their glowing,grooving, self-produced songs draw from personal observations: intimacy (both inside and outside theband), toxic behavior, drug use, and apocalyptic dread. When recording started, they noticed a shift and leaned in, jokingly dubbed "evil TOPS," says Penny. "We're always kind of seen as a soft band orlike naive or friendly in a Canadian way, but we made it a challenge to really channel the world around us." Through the lens of a looming epoch and the clarity that comes with age, TOPS dip into amore sinister disco realm with 'Bury the Key', giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.

TRACK LISTING

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

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Cover of I Feel Alive - 2023 Repress by TOPS.

TOPS

I Feel Alive - 2023 Repress

TOPS Musique

The artwork for TOPS’ fourth LP sets the tone for the music enclosed. Inspired by the work of photographer Thomas Ruff, TOPS’ vocalist Jane Penney stares bare-faced down the lens – simple and un-posed, yet striking with starkness and vulnerability. The image captures the fraught nature of being alive, which the 11 tracks on the album explore. Penny's remarkably expressive voice is front and center. On this record more than any other, she sings with passion and energy, without sacrificing the honesty and introspection that gives her voice its depth. The songs cover a range of experiences but at it's heart ‘I Feel Alive’ is a record about resilience, the ways we can grow from for our pain and the strength that comes from learning to stand on your own as an individual. ‘I Feel Alive’ is TOPS’ fourth full-length, following 2017's ‘Sugar At The Gate’ and follows singles "Echo of Dawn" and "Seven Minutes" from last year. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Witching Hour
2. Direct Sunlight
3. Take Down
4. I Feel Alive
5. Pirouette
6. Drowning In Paradise
7. OK Fine Whatever
8. Ballads & Sad Movies
9. Looking To Remember
10. Colder & Closer
11. Too Much

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Cover of Stars And Topsoil - A Collection (1982-1990) by Cocteau Twins.

Cocteau Twins

Stars And Topsoil - A Collection (1982-1990)

4AD

‘Stars and Topsoil’, Cocteau Twins’ collection of the best of their 4AD years, is belatedly issued on vinyl. Perfectly suited to the format, there’s a greater cohesion to the tracks when they are split into four sides.

Following their ascent from alternative novices to universally acclaimed artists, ‘Stars and Topsoil’ is a fine testament to one of the most original bands to emerge in the last three decades. Over a career at 4AD that spanned six albums and seven eps, Cocteau Twins retained an intriguing uniqueness of style that defied comparison. Elizabeth Fraser (vocals), Robin Guthrie (guitars) and Simon Raymonde (bass guitar) were always fiercely protective of their privacy, preferring to let the music speak for itself; it spoke volumes and continues to do so.

From day one Cocteau Twins had something special; Liz’s glittering vocals, unintelligible and perfect, Robin’s edgy guitar, all grounded by Simon’s bass. This chronological collection is a fitting reminder of why Cocteau Twins are so important: musical visionaries who transcended convention yet achieved massive international success.

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Cover of I Feel Alive by TOPS.

TOPS

I Feel Alive

TOPS Musique

The artwork for TOPS’ fourth LP sets the tone for the music enclosed. Inspired by the work of photographer Thomas Ruff, TOPS’ vocalist Jane Penney stares bare-faced down the lens – simple and un-posed, yet striking with starkness and vulnerability. The image captures the fraught nature of being alive, which the 11 tracks on the album explore. Penny's remarkably expressive voice is front and center. On this record more than any other, she sings with passion and energy, without sacrificing the honesty and introspection that gives her voice its depth. The songs cover a range of experiences but at it's heart ‘I Feel Alive’ is a record about resilience, the ways we can grow from for our pain and the strength that comes from learning to stand on your own as an individual. ‘I Feel Alive’ is TOPS’ fourth full-length, following 2017's ‘Sugar At The Gate’ and follows singles "Echo of Dawn" and "Seven Minutes" from last year. Their trademark sound of beguiling melodies over soft-rock grooves, with touches of '80s sophisti-pop and a contemporary experimental palette is intact, but bolder and more expansive. The songs manage to be both immediately catchy and deceptively deep, with Penny's literary lyrics adding an extra dimension to the pure pop hooks. Satisfying yet far from predictable, this is a record to be savored, revealing itself slowly, gaining power and poignancy with each listen. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Direct Sunlight
2. I Feel Alive
3. Pirouette
4. Ballads & Sad Movies
5. Colder & Closer
6. Witching Hour
7. Take Down
8. Drowning In Paradise
9. OK Fine Whatever
10. Looking To Remember
11. Too Much

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