Picture You Staring

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AlbumSep 02 / 201412 songs, 43m 52s
Indie Pop Bedroom Pop
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7.0 / 10

Don't mistake Picture You Staring for anything more than a simple pop record. The second full-length from Montreal quartet TOPS features 12 examples of lithe, bubbly songwriting that winks at you even as it tears up.

8 / 10

Canadian quartet return for a second innings with an innovative, soft-focus, synth-pop opus.

It’s all a bit too good to be true.

TOPS come from a crew of Montreal-based creative types who collectively cobbled themselves together through loose affiliations with the Artbus Records label and the warehouse studio/performance space where many of the bands and artists of the scene experiment with their boundary-pushing ideas.

8 / 10

Picture You Staring, the latest release by Edmonton-via-Montreal four-piece TOPS, is a prime example.