Tops have been born out of the ashes of now defunct Montreal based Winnie fave, Silly Kissers.

In TOPS’ new song, Diamond Look, singer Jane Penny re-imagines herself as an impossibly distant beauty queen – mocking all suitors, perpetually a rooms-length away. Her vocals pierce through layers of instruments to tell a story of glamour and fame. David Carriere coaxes semiprecious guitar figures, while Thom Gillies and Riley Fleck provide a driven yet serpentine backdrop.

TOPS – Diamond Look by Arbutus Records

More Tops here.

posted by @tristanorchard

Some remixes from Montreal.

Winnie has like absolutely no Quebec following at all, must have something to do with all the terrible slang / racism or my barely passing grades in French class, “Je suis un garçon chatte”.

The majority of our readers are from B.C., California and New York (3 of my 4 fave places, excluding Montreal/ Quebec).  I think we get the same amounts of readers from a place called Pasay in the Philippines.  That’s all right, as long as they continue making sweet jams we have no probs spreading the good word and they have their own great sites like this one that i’ve been crushing on http://goldkicks.blogspot.com/ and course, http://www.saidthegramophone.com/

Winnie’s Hunk le Drunk is coming out to Montreal with one of our fave Vancouver bands, Humans, with Karn also djing Friday November 12th. Hopefully at Play House (TBC)…  Maybe we can make some mixed race super babies or something?

Silly Kissers – U could even like me (Mental Beej Mix) remixed by http://www.myspace.com/cottonmouthmontreal

+ new Karn remix of Grimes who played one of our shady lil warehouse parties and blew my miind. Think Enya. yeah Enya you gd fool.

Grimes- Darkheart (karnversion)

Montreal’s Arbutus records is perhaps the best little underground indie pop label in Canada featuring such acts as, Sean Nicholas Savage, Pop Winds, Grimes, Silly Kissers & Blue Hawaii a boyfriend girlfriend duo.

We’ve posted Dream Electrixra by Blue Hawaii before. I’ve since got a hold of the entire ep it is from, “Blooming Summer” which is available as a free download….! (HOT TIP A lot of the Arbutus albums are available for free via their website…)

They have a label showcase Sept 30th at the amazing Pop Montreal festival. As if you needed an excuse to visit Montreal…

Download the entire ep Blooming Summer ep then give me a shout so we can both talk about how effing rad it is. k?

Perfect music for this rainy late summer Vancouver day.

Oh and it took me a while to figure this out but Blue Hawaii has Raphaelle of Braids singing.

Here’s the first 3 songs from the ep.

Blue Hawaii – Lilac

Blue Hawaii – Dream Electrixra

Blue Hawaii – Katie

++ Silly kissers dancefloor remix

Blue Hawaii – Dream Electrixra (SILLY KISSERS REMIX)

Dream Electixra video

The Silly Kissers sent us their new remix of fellow Montrealers, Blue Hawaii.

Blue Hawaii – Dream Electrixra (SILLY KISSERS REMIX)

and the orig…

Blue Hawaii – Dream Electrixra

Montreal’s Silly Kissers have a new EP! It’s called Precious Necklace.

They miiiight be coming to Vancouver! look out for it.

Silly Kissers – Sweet Adrian

Silly Kissers – Mine U Are Mine

Silly Kissers – You Could Even Like Me

Montreal’s Silly Kissers have a new album in the works called Precious Necklace. Horray!

Our super pal, Gobble Gobble sent us his new remix of their single!

Silly Kissers – Sweet Adrian

Silly Kissers – Sweet Adrian (GOBBLE GOBBLEs Goth Raincoat)

The Silly Kissers were named one of the top five up and coming Montreal bands by SPIN Magazine. One day I will edit our silly silly winnie tv segment we did with them. In the mean time check out the new remix of their single by Karn of Halloween Summer (also their album title).

Silly Kissers – Halloween Summer (Karn Remix)

Silly Kissers – Halloween Summer

I’ve been slacking with my Pop Montreal update. In all honesty it got way to hard to keep up with while trying to keep up with the festival and shoot as much footage as I could. I also stuck with a handicapped macbook (the generation) where Apple decided to not include a firewire and I havn’t been able to load any of the glorious footage we shot. Not to fret it will come.

One of my fave bands we met were the Silly Kissers. We posted a song of by them and were contacted by GOBBLE GOBBLE of Alberta who sent these amazing tunes over! The first is a remix of Silly Kisser bff Sean Nicholas Savage (oh my).

Sean Nicholas Savage – Baby It’s You (GOBBLE GOBBLE’s Pop Manslaughter)

GOBBLE GOBBLE – Meteor Eschat

And this is the original version of the first song.

Sean Nicholas Savage – Baby It’s You

We are very excited to be heading over to Montreal next week to cover Pop Montreal.

One of the acts we’re looking foreward to seeing, other than Fever Ray and about 30-100 others is these guysss, Montreal resi’s, Silly Kissers

Were are going to be doing some live blogging ( I don’t now what that is) and shooting some videos with bands and some of the general chaos.  If you’re in Montreal, holler.  Let’s pAArty.

This is from the Silly Kissers new ep!

Silly Kissers – I Won’t Let You Go