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- Summary: The third full-length release for the Montreal indie pop band was recorded in a former brothel in the Los Angeles area.
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- Record Label: Arbutus Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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| It's all over now I was hypnotized by why we could not give a lie Used to think that I was in the right Now I know I'm wrong You don't know what you... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Jun 2, 2017TOPS like to keep listeners on their toes. Their music is undeniably beautiful and, for all its subtleties, often immediately rewarding.
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Jun 2, 2017If a touch weightier in tone, the album returns a distinctive palette and home-recorded finish to a heavy-heartedness firmly established on 2014's Picture You Staring, so fans and sentimentalists may take heart.
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Jun 2, 2017As on their previous two records, the rewards here are in the refinement, the well-wrought voices and the sublimely subtle performances.
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Jun 14, 2017Overall, Sugar at the Gate is a compact record from a band chugging along smoothly, unspooling sweet rhythms like it is finally their job.
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Jun 15, 2017Never deviating from course, Sugar At The Gate adds one more stitch to the tightly-wrapped DNA that makes TOPS so immersive and enjoyable, its ten glossy songs bearing all the marks of a band that has taken yet another step toward mastering their craft.
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Jun 2, 2017Unfortunately, although that slight detachment feels pretty good in the midst of listening, much like tucking into an ice cream cone with more than a few sprinkles, you might get brain freeze trying to recall some of the tunes afterwards.
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MojoJun 27, 2017Largely insubstantial. [Aug 2017, p.97]
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