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Cigarettes After Sex is an American ambient pop band formed in 2008, from El Paso, Texas, founded by Greg Gonzalez. The band is known for their ethereal, limerent and often dream-like musical style, lyrics often based on the themes of romance and love, as well as Gonzalez's voice, described as "androgynous". While marketed as an ambient pop band, Cigarettes After Sex are also considered to be shoegaze, dream pop and slowcore.

by Cigarettes After Sex, released 21 July 2012 1. Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby 2. I'm a Firefighter 3. Dreaming of You 4. Starry Eyes Recorded April 2012 in El Paso, TX All songs written by Greg Gonzalez except "Starry Eyes" written by Roky Erickson Greg Gonzalez - vocals, bass Phillip Tubbs - electric guitar Steve Herrada - keyboards Emily Davis - acoustic guitar Greg Leeah - drums recorded by Wally Byers mixed by Greg Gonzalez mastered by Jason Martin Cover: Necklace (or anatomy) by Man Ray Cover design: Greg Gonzalez & Lisa Marie Chavira. Wicked Eeyore i didn't own this one and it didn't bother me that I didn't. then it did haha! hate that i missed you guys in the summer, hopefully you come back to the desert! Team Oktopus. Team Oktopus The only thing better than having a cigarette after sex is listening to Cigarettes After Sex.

Cigarettes After Sex is an American ambient pop musical group led by Greg Gonzalez, founded in El Paso, Texas in 2008. Gonzalez recorded the first EP, . in a four-story stairway at his alma mater, University of Texas at El Paso. Gonzalez relocated to Brooklyn, NY where the band's single, "Affection", was recorded and released in 2015 along with a cover of REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You".

After a slow start, Cigarettes After Sex saw their fortunes swiftly reversed by a whirlwind of YouTube hits. Although they formed in 2008, CAS waited nearly a decade to release their debut record, and rather fittingly it unfolds at a lethargic pace. The music that Greg Gonzales and his fellow bandmates produce is slowcore in the extreme.

The tracks on Cigarettes After Sex utilize beautiful arpeggiating guitar lines to provide a counter-melody to Gonzales’s silky tenor, which stays locked in an octave-and-a-half range throughout the album. The bass and drums anchor each track without ever drawing attention to themselves. The result is a record whose indulgence in melodic and atmospheric beauty is effortlessly intoxicating. In an inundated music scene, it can feel impossible to differentiate one group from another, and many groups utilize gimmicks to try to separate themselves from the pack.

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Without a doubt, Cigarettes After Sex is an album of love songs, but it’s tempered with a millennial ennui that gives the songs an extra layer of relevance in 2017. Instead of relying on lovey-dovey, pastoral lyrics to tell stories of budding relationships, each song is set to a backdrop of ultra-downbeat dream pop, its somber moods leaking into fleeting vignettes of sexy iPhone videos and bittersweet hookups. It’s easy to write a bunch of slow songs with similar chords, but it’s an altogether different feat to produce, mix, and compile them in a way that their similarities become their strengths, gradually setting an unshakable mood. At first the repetition of certain elements-echoing guitars, soft hi-hats, elastic basslines-seems overbearing.

All the blatantly audible influences become irrelevant, leaving Cigarettes After Sex with a sound of its own, created with scant tools and seemingly minimal effort. Like the best sleight of hand magicians, the trick’s conjured before you, then gone.