I Feel Alive: Peppermint Vinyl LP Robert Johnson Journalist and author Chris Faraone

Journalist and author Chris Faraone highlights the group’s relationship in the reissue’s liner notes (which is included only in limited edition Skull) saying

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Originally released in October 1981 and like the bands previous two albums

extremely nuanced and

I Feel Alive: Peppermint Vinyl LP Robert Johnson Journalist and author Chris FaraoneMontreal dream pop four piece Tops release their fourth album. I Feel Alive was recorded in a basement studio in Montreal with keyboardist Marta Cikojevic, who joined the band as a live member in 2017. Their trademark sound of beguiling melodies over soft rock grooves, with touches of '80s sophisti pop and a contemporary experimental palette is intact, but bolder and more expansive. The songs manage to be both immediately catchy and deceptively deep,