TOPS - Tender Opposites [CD]

TOPS is a Montreal based four-piece. Having played in multiple groups in Montreal, they are a band entrenched in the local community. Tender Opposites is the band s first full length. It was recorded and reworked several times by the band La Brique, the loft venue which serves as the creative hub for Arbutus Records. The songs have a complexity that slips easily into the shadows of the moods they create-alternating between melancholic visions of the future and ecstatic fantasies that overcome them. The persona that emerges belongs to vocalist Jane Penny. Her unique tone is coupled with a strength of perspective, a rebellious attitude that betrays her girlish appearance.