Interview
TOPS Interview by Zofia Ciechowska Photos by Vinna Laudico in Montreal, Canada Styling by Kaitlyn Woodhouse
TOPS are back this summer with album number three, Sugar at the Gate, a subtle nod to achieving satisfaction and pleasure, but also encountering a barrier to what’s desired. If you know records numbers one and two, you’ll recognize the dreamy TOPSy pop that made your heart swell and hips sway when you first heard it. But you’ll also feel more pronounced tremors of strange psychedelia and live show exuberance, and a lyrical confidence of self-expression that’s come into its own. In their video for ‘Petals’, the band is pictured in their Glendale home filled with light and technicolor balloons, gorging on heavily frosted pastel-coloured cakes with Michael Jackson and Madonna impersonators, racing through the local cemetery in a red convertible. 40