TOPS

The poignant-yet-bubbly ’80s-influenced ballads from this dreamy Montreal quartet ooze disco-inflected vibes as sultry as they are wistful. TOPS' re-styling of soft rock elements through a grainy, retro lens offers a deliciously hooky addition to the stylistic pallete of its label, Montreal's tastemaking Arbutus Records, which is known for pop idiosyncracy with avant tendencies (see Grimes, Majical Cloudz and Lydia Ainsworth).