Today, Cigarettes After Sex have released their second single, "Falling In Love" off of their highly anticipated sophomore LP - Cry - out October 25 th via Partisan Records. Their first single, "Heavenly" achieved over ten million streams and was recently featured in NPR's Heavy Rotation.
"This was one of the few songs where I had the music written before we got to Mallorca, I wrote the melody and chords in my apartment in Brooklyn in 2017. It wasn't until two years later that I finally wrote the lyrics, it was during mixing and we literally had one day left. I wrote and sang the song that night, and in the performance you can hear the exhaustion and emotion of finally finishing this record."
"Falling In Love" is a blissful amorous track; stripped down with light percussion and a spacious guitar, Greg Gonzalez's vocals melt into the heavenly space created around him. The penultimate track of the LP, "Falling In Love" further escalates the anticipation for the upcoming project.
"My girlfriend and I, our relationship was long distance for so long, so we developed as a couple mostly over the phone. The second verse is about how we would go see the same movie at the same time like it was a date, even though we were living in separate cities.
I think there’s something cosmic about this one. I wrote the music before our relationship started. I wasn't in love at all then, I was just writing about love and what it'd be like to be in love again. Two years later I actually fell in love again, and that’s what it took to finish the song."
After decamping to Mallorca the same week that their self-titled minimalist pop masterwork debut was released in 2017, Gonzalez and his bandmates - Jacob Tomsky (drums) & Randy Miller (bass) - consciously let the striking location guide the initial Cry sessions. “The sound of this record is completely tied to the location for me,” Gonzalez explains. “Ultimately, I view this record as a film. It was shot in this stunning, exotic location, and it stitches all these different characters and scenes together, but in the end is really about romance, beauty & sexuality. It’s a very personal telling of what those things mean to me.”
While the music came quickly – often improvised on the spot – it would be another two years before Gonzalez would attempt to complete the accompanying lyrics. Helped by the burgeoning love of a new relationship, the influence of films by Éric Rohmer, and the songs of Selena and Shania Twain among others, Cry blends the carnal subtlety of their debut with a warmer palette. The album was self-produced and engineered by Gonzalez, and mixed by Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
The band will tour extensively behind Cry. They’ve confirmed a global headline tour this fall which has already begun to sell out. That run includes stops at The Wiltern (Oct 3) in LA, and Brooklyn Steel (Oct 24) + Webster Hall (Oct 23) in NYC. Full routing below, more dates to be announced soon.
Cigarettes After Sex’s self-titled debut has sold over 550k records to date (streaming equivalent), amassing over 360 million Spotify streams, 2.2 million monthly listeners, and 350 million YouTube streams. The band’s list of on-the-record fans include everyone from Taylor Swift, Kylie Jenner, Lana Del Rey, Françoise Hardy, Lily Allen, Busy Philipps + more. They’ve been featured in Vice Noisey, V Magazine, Interview, NPR’s Tiny Desk, and their music has appeared in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Killing Eve,’ and Ralph Lauren ads.
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Cigarettes After Sex - Cry Tracklisting
1. Don’t Let Me Go
2. Kiss It Off Me
3. Heavenly
4. You’re the Only Good Thing in My Life
5. Touch
6. Hentai
7. Cry
8. Falling In Love
9. Pure
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"Falling In Love" Single Artwork:
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CIGARETTES AFTER SEX TOUR DATES:
10/8/19 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
10/10/19 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theater
10/11/19 – Kansas City, MO – The Truman
10/12/19 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
10/13/19 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/15/19 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
10/16/19 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (SOLD OUT)
10/17/19 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (SOLD OUT)
10/18/19 – Covington, KY – Madison Theater
10/19/19 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
10/21/19 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
10/23/19 – New York, NY – Webster Hall (SOLD OUT)
10/24/19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel (SOLD OUT)
10/25/19 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club (SOLD OUT)
10/26/19 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
10/27/19 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
11/2/19 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso (SOLD OUT)
11/3/19 – Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
11/7/19 – Brussels, BE - Cirque Royal (SOLD OUT)
11/8/19 – Paris, FR – Olympia (SOLD OUT)
11/9/19 – Benidorm, ES - Primavera 20th Anniversary Weekender
11/11/19 – Barcelona, ES - Sala Apolo (SOLD OUT)
11/12/19 – Barcelona, ES - Sala Apolo (SOLD OUT)
11/14/19 – Milan, IT – Alcatraz
11/16/19 – Zurich, CH – Plaza (SOLD OUT)
11/17/19 – Zurich, CH - Plaza (SOLD OUT)
11/18/19 – Vienna, AT – Arena
11/19/19 – Vienna, AT - Arena
11/20/19 – Prague, CZ – Roxy (SOLD OUT)
11/22/19 – Copenhagen, DK – The Grey Hall (SOLD OUT)
11/23/19 – Berlin, DE - Tempodrome
11/25/19 – Cologne, DE – Palladium
11/27/19 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
11/28/19 – London, UK - Shepherds Bush Empire (SOLD OUT)
3/23/20 – Bristol, UK - Academy
3/24/20 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo
3/25/20 – Birmingham, UK - Institute
3/27/20 – Leeds, UK - University
3/28/30 -Glasgow, UK - Barrowland
3/29/20 – Liverpool, UK - Academy
4/1/20 – Hamburg, DE - Fabrik
4/3/20 – Oslo, NO - Rockefeller
4/4/20 – Stockholm, SE - Slaktkyrkan
4/6/20 - Aarhus, DE - Voxhall
4/8/20 - Luxembourg City, LU - den Atelier
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