The Montreal band offers a new EP of five tracks as delightful as they are authentic. With Empty Seats, TOPS thus explores its lightest, softest, almost satiny musical facet, while retaining its identity as an independent melancholy pop group whose choruses intoxicate and enchant. We thus find the unique notes and chords of synths and guitars, as well as the mischievous voice of Jane Penny, which have made TOPS famous internationally since the release of Tender Opposites ten years ago now. In short, the pleasure of listening to TOPS is intact, and if we have known for a few months the first extracts fromEmpty Seats what are the flawless Perfect Steps, Party Again and waiting, Future Waits and Janet Planet turn out to be delicious. This last piece, stripped down but not meaningless, depicts a certain boredom against which the melodies imagined by TOPS seem, forever, to be the best remedy.
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