CONCERT REVIEW: CIGARETTES AFTER SEX AT VOGUE THEATRE - SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2022

September 13th is a crisp night in Vancouver for Cigarettes After Sex — a wildly popular and anticipated show due to the band’s last album being released in 2019 at the onset of the pandemic. Lead singer, guitarist, and founder of the band, Greg Gonzalez, with Randall Miller on bass and Jacob Tomsky on drums commanded the stage at The Vogue with sensual, dreamy shoegaze and indie rock.

What I love about concerts from bands that were at the height of their popularity during the “indie sleaze,” 2012- era of Tumblr is the fact that the crowd really goes out for a full experience. That isn’t a slight to Cigarettes After Sex or their fans — I, too, dressed up. The crowd was prepared for a night of escape and lurid romance, and I loved seeing everyone dress the part in black, leather, and old merch.

My friend actually mentioned to me that a Cigarettes After Sex concert would be boring, but honestly it was far from it. Gonzalez’ vocals are made for The Vogue, with his almost operatic, sometimes referred to as “androgynous” tone filling the theater. The band started off strong with crowd pleaser “Crush,” and although the stage had little by way of set design, it felt intimate.

Gonzalez and his bandmates did not partake in a lot of banter with the crowd, but I think that added to their allure as performers. You don’t see a Cigarettes After Sex concert to laugh and cheer — you see them to engulf yourself in the music and feel it in your stomach. By the time “Affection” rolled around, followed by “Falling in Love,” a lot of the couples in the pit took to swaying together, closing their eyes and enjoying the experience. 

Another highlight was definitely the song “Cry,” a personal favourite and perhaps one of their most popular songs. For this, they projected a woman’s sad face on the curtains of the stage. There is something about this song that is so guttural and heart-wrenching, that I think everyone should hear it live once. Gonzalez’ smoldering guitar and contemplative lyrics accompanied by the light snare of the drums felt very human.

The band performed a lot of favourites, including “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby,” “Apocalypse” and a cover of REO Speedwagon’s “Keep on Loving You.” Although one might critique that Cigarettes After Sex produce the same kind of smoky, simmering, sad song, they were all very enjoyable to listen to. I think this is the kind of music to listen to live, making a great concert experience.

The setlist was shorter than most with the show running just around an hour. They concluded on “Opera House” – my second favourite song, which they put a spin on by slowing the first part of the tempo – and “Dreaming of You.” It felt like an intimate concert despite the larger, packed venue. I also heard that a bunch of people bought fake tickets from a fan page for the show that night, and the band asked The Vogue to try and sell more tickets and cram more people in than they usually would. It just goes to show how deeply Cigarettes After Sex cares about their fans, and their ability to experience and listen to their music.

Written by: Alexa Tarrayo

Cigarettes After Sex é uma banda norte-americana de dream pop, formada no ano de 2008 em El Paso por Greg Gonzalez. A banda é conhecida por seu estilo musical etéreo, limerente e muitas vezes onírico, letras frequentemente baseadas em temas de romance e amor, bem como a voz de Gonzalez, que foi descrita como "andrógina".

INTEGRANTES

Greg Gonzalez – fundador, cantor principal, guitarra, violão

Randall Miller – baixo

Jacob Tomsky – bateria

↓ EX MEMBROS ↓

Phillip Tubbs – teclado, guitarra

Greg Leah – bateria

Steve Herrada – teclado

Emily Davis – violão

Josh Marcus - teclado

DISCOGRAFIA

Álbum Detalhes

Cigarettes After Sex Lançamento: 9 de jun de 2017

Gravadora: Partisan

Cry Lançamento: 25 de out de 2019

Gravadora: Tratore

dec '22 -> jan '23 reading and writing check in

reading

the atlas paradox - olivie blake (3/5 - a veritable capri sun pouch: loads of fun!! packed with flavor!! but quenched my thirst about as well as one measly pouch of fruit punch on a sweltering day.)

sundial - catriona ward (4/5 - read this whole thing in one afternoon. ENTRANCED, i tell you.)

soft science - franny choi (4/5 - super yummy)

limbo, and other places i have lived - lily tuck (2.5/5 - started out kind of interesting and for sure i was compelled throughout it's just. i never cared about any of the characters. and maybe that was the point? idk. well constructed just not to my tastes.)

sisters - daisy johnson (3/5 - i usually don't mind when characters are annoying but OOOHHH BOY both girls were trying my patience. i get it i get it thats the point and i mean yeah i did LOVE the messiness but ugh. i dont feel the theme/point was well served but meh. that's just me.)

heads in beds - jacob tomsky (3.5/5 - i love hotels even though ive had an inkling (and now PROOF) that they dont love me)

writing

liddol declan fic !! i have so many thoughts about canon declan and niall....... so many thoughts........

and i have almost 18k words of this second?third? draft. it's gonna happen !!

upcoming

im reading a book about operas right now. very neat! unfortunately im in a reading slump. need to soak my brain in something else for a minute i reckon. my goal this year is again two books a month!! so far we're on schedule ((:

as for writing, once i finish this thing.... well who knows. im in the middle of migrating my fic wips to a whole new thing since zoho decided to be Unfree /: i have a lot of unfinished ideas that are certainly compelling i just don't know what to do with them. is posting unfinished works acceptable? maybe just on tumblr yknow informally? or maybe ill finish them. i dont know.

i also have it in my head that i would like to be published so im trying to shift to writing more of my original short stories (as opposed to long works because honestly i dont know that i have a novel in me.) i need to find one of those crit groups so i can figure out how to Actually Write.

anyways! here is to a wonderful new year! cant wait to see what i do!

[Album] Cigarettes After Sex kündigen ihr drittes Album "X's" an!

Mit über 23 Millionen monatlichen Spotify-Hörer*innen gehört die US-Band zu den 240 meistgestreamten Artists der Plattform. Allein der Track "Apocalypse" hat dort mittlerweile über eine Milliarde Plays gesammelt. Auf Tiktok wurden die Songs 6,4 Milliarden Mal verwendet, womit sie fünf Plätze unter den Top 1 % aller viralen Audiokreationen belegen. Im Jahr 2023 verkauften Cigarettes After Sex weltweit über 200.000 Tickets - ohne dabei in einem Albumzyklus zu sein. Dieser kontinuierliche Aufstieg ist umso bemerkenswerter, wenn man bedenkt, dass die Band nach wie vor quasi ein Schattendasein führt, es keine (!) Musikvideos gibt und ihre Artworks konsequent in mythischem Monochrom gehalten sind.

Mit jeder Veröffentlichung - der ersten EP von 2012, dem gleichnamigen Debütalbum von 2017 und "Cry" von 2019 - ist Greg Gonzalez, Frontmann der Band, sich und auch seiner Hauptinspiration treu geblieben: der Liebe. In rohen, fantasievollen, manchmal schmutzigen Vignetten, die von mitreißenden Popsongs untermalt werden, fängt Gonzalez alle Emotionen ein, die eine romantische Beziehung hervorruft. Doch während frühere Alben aus einem Sammelsurium von Beziehungen schöpften, konzentriert sich das dritte Album "X's" auf eine einzige Beziehung, die sich über vier Jahre erstreckte. “The record feels brutal, honestly”, erzählt Gonzalez. “I could sit and talk about this loss to someone, but that wouldn’t scratch the surface. I have to really write about it, sing about it, have the music, and then I can start to analyze and learn from it. Or just relive it—in a good way.” Auf den zehn Songs geht es um diese besondere Form der Romantik, aber auch darum, wer Gonzales in dieser Zeit war und wie er diese Situationen gemeistert hat. ”That's the painful thing: you're seeing yourself back then.” Rückblickend waren diese Monate auch eine Epoche, in der Cigarettes After Sex erfolgstechnisch noch einmal ein ganz neues Niveau erreichten, inklusive Touren, die sie durch die ganze Welt getragen haben, von Chile über Ägypten bis nach Indonesien. Mit "X's" (12. Juli über Partisan) veröffentlicht die Band nun ein weiteres Album, das wie die früheren Cigarettes After Sex-Platten auch stark durch den Ort geprägt ist, an dem die Songs aufgenommen wurden. Da wäre das Treppenhaus des Colleges in El Paso für die erste EP, der Proberaum in Brooklyn für das erste Album, ein Innenhof in Mallorca für "Cry" und nun das Haus am Fuße der Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, in dem Gonzalez mit seiner damaligen Partnerin lebte. Während die ersten Demos im August 2020 von Greg mit den Bandmitgliedern Jacob Tomsky (Schlagzeug) und Randall Miller (Bass) aufgenommen wurden, entstand der Großteil der eigentlichen Aufnahmen in einem kleinen Schlafzimmer im Laufe von sechs intimen Live-Sessions zwischen 2021 und 2022. Anstatt auf den heilenden Balsam der Perspektive zu warten, drückte Gonzalez beim Schreiben auf die blauen Flecken und machte sich genau diesen Schmerz zunutze. Aus den emotionalen Trümmern des Beziehungsendes blickt Gonzalez unter anderem in "Dreams From Bunker Hill" nostalgisch auf die damalige Zeit zurück. Die Anfangstage der Beziehung fängt er in "Hideaway" und im tanzbaren "Holding You, Holding Me" ein. Ebenso im eröffnenden Titeltrack, der scheinbar nicht enden wollende Tage im Bett beschreibt. Das ergreifende Album endet mit "Ambien Slide", in dem Gonzalez sich dem Schmerz der endgültigen Trennung stellt. “I have to confront everything I went through, that's just how I make peace.”

Als erste Single teilt die Band das zarte "Tejano Blue". Während der Text von Unvergänglichkeit träumt, sind der Titel und der Rhythmus eine Anspielung auf Gonzalez' texanische Wurzeln und das Aufwachsen mit Portishead, Cocteau Twins, Ennio Morricone und Leonard Cohen. “I grew up in El Paso & Tejano music is huge there. You could go to a lot of the bars in the city & hear artists like Selena, Los Ángeles Azules & La Mafia playing over the speakers. It was in the atmosphere around me back then, but I always rejected it & gravitated towards anything else I was attracted to really. Years later when I was living in New York City I finally started listening to Selena’s ‘Como La Flor’ at the same time that I was also listening to a lot of Cocteau Twins. I had the idea then to try to combine both of their sounds somehow, which felt a bit strange, but also felt like it was coming from a genuine place of rediscovering & finally connecting with the music that I heard around me in my youth.”

2024 und 2025 stehen bereits über 60 Live-Termine auf fünf Kontinenten an, darunter auch vier Shows im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Live: 03.11.24 AT-Wien - Wiener Stadthalle 07.11.24 Berlin - Uber-Arena (ehemals Mercedes-Benz Arena) 09.11.24 CH-Basel - St. Jakobshalle 10.11.24 Köln - Lanxess Arena Booking in D: FKP Scorpio

Tracklist "X's": 01. X's 02. Tejano Blue 03. Silver Sable 04. Hideaway 05. Holding you, Holding me 06. Dark Vacay 07. Baby Blue Movie 08. Hot 09. Dreams From Bunker Hill 10. Ambien Slide

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and when you would sing, i felt that my heart was falling.

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Their second full-length, Cry, comes out on Partisan Records on Friday, and Cigarettes After Sex celebrate its arrival a little bit early, at Webster Hall on Wednesday and at Brooklyn Steel on Thursday. And while both dates have already sold out, you can still try to Grow a Pair of tickets to tomorrow’s show. Just reach out to Eddie Bruiser at [email protected], making sure to include your full name, e-mail address and which show you’re trying to win tickets to (Cigarettes After Sex, 10/23). Eddie will notify the winner by Wednesday afternoon. Rules below apply.

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No Purchase Necessary. Offer ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 10/23 or when pass inventory is exhausted whichever occurs first. To participate you must be a legal citizen of the 50 U.S. states or D.C., 18 or older (19 in NE and AL, 21 in MS). Submission of pass request does not guarantee your selection. Two admission passes per entitled responder will be distributed on a first come first served basis. Selected recipients will be notified via e-mail no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 10/23. If you do not receive a responsive e-mail from [email protected] you have not been awarded tickets. Passes for personal use only and resale of such passes is prohibited. Participation subject to The Bowery Presents, LLC Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Additional terms and restrictions apply. Exclusions apply. Void where prohibited. All decisions of The Bowery Presents, LLC are final.

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One of the Inktobers I did. Screech and Hyperventilate waa me during Cigarette After Sex concert. This is Randy and Phillip on stage 😍