Cigarettes After Sex

AlbumJun 09 / 201710 songs, 47m
Dream Pop Slowcore
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Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez uses his music like a diary, each song framing a vivid, intimate memory of a lover or friend. They’re bracingly honest dispatches, recalling moments of helpless obsession (“Sweet”) and snarling at infidelity with dark, profane humor (“Young & Dumb”). Tethered by bittersweet melodies, the band’s slow, hazy pop-noir gives the joy and pain of Gonzalez’s tales time and space to sink in, and your heart might race and break as hard as his on “K” and “Apocalypse.”

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7.4 / 10

As Cigarettes After Sex, Greg Gonzalez writes modern love songs set to downbeat dream pop. Much like relationships themselves, the songs on his self-titled debut LP are full of contradictions.

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7 / 10

Texas four-piece Cigarettes After Sex have crafted a debut album full of hazy, intimate indie pop slow jams that capture every aspect of human romance.

Cigarettes After Sex isn’t quite as addictive as nicotine, but there’s still a bit of a buzz to be had in the occasional dip into the band's gauzy realm.

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7 / 10

Seemingly overnight, Cigarettes After Sex went from floating around the edges of the Internet as a dorm room solo project to an online sensation, racking

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8.5 / 10

Review Cigarettes After Sex's self-titled full-length" In our review we see if Cigarettes After Sex can match the hype their EPs promised.

Greg Gonzalez lifts the echoey guitars and washes of sound into another league, with amazing vocals and great melodies. Hopefully the lyrics will mature

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