Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex - LP (Limted Edition Clear Vinyl)
Debut album from Cigarettes After Sex on limited edition Clear Vinyl.
Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez's ability to set a scene and sustain a mood reels you in deeply. On album opener āK.ā, a tale of blossoming love etched in tiny details luxuriates over chiming guitars; on the hymn to romantic compulsion of āEach Time You Fall in Loveā, the suspended animation of Angelo Badalamentiās heart-stopping Twin Peaks music is echoed. āSunsetzā and the gently lilting āSweetā, meanwhile, showcase Gonzalezās ability to weave impressionistic snapshots of romance into melodies that haunt like memories of past loves, all coalescing around his melting vocals.
Elsewhere, Gonzalez mounts movies in miniature with the photographic references of āFlashā and Fitzcarraldo echoes of āOpera Houseā, a song so lovingly languid it could, conceivably, soundtrack a man hauling ships over mountains for love. And, just as every good film-maker knows the need for a killer finale, so Gonzalez closes the album with the retro-romantic swing and teasingly filthy put-downs (the āsucking cockā lyric isnāt as barbed as it seems, just friendly joshing) of āYoung & Dumbā, which brings the album to a close with good, timeless advice: āDrive your car to the beach with the song on repeatā¦ā.
To mirror their woozy romanticism in music, Gonzalez rejected conventional studio routes for his band, which numbers Randy Miller on bass, Jacob Tomsky on drums and Phillip Tubbs on keyboards. Taking influence from The Cowboy Junkiesā The Trinity Session (recorded in a church, single microphone), Cigarettes recorded most of the album in three days at the Sweatshop rehearsal space, Bushwick. The exception is āEach Time You Fall in Loveā, which was recorded in the Beekmanās stairway after hours, the ghosts of screen lovers channelled in every warm note. Like the best movie, Cigarettes After Sex holds you in a hell of a spell.
Genre: Electronic/Pop
Format: Vinyl/LP
Track-list:
Side A
- K.
- Each Time You Fall In Love
- Sunsetz
- Apocalypse
- Flash
Side B
- Sweet
- Opera House
- Truly
- John Wayne
- Young & Dumb
Debut album from Cigarettes After Sex on limited edition Clear Vinyl.
Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez's ability to set a scene and sustain a mood reels you in deeply. On album opener āK.ā, a tale of blossoming love etched in tiny details luxuriates over chiming guitars; on the hymn to romantic compulsion of āEach Time You Fall in Loveā, the suspended animation of Angelo Badalamentiās heart-stopping Twin Peaks music is echoed. āSunsetzā and the gently lilting āSweetā, meanwhile, showcase Gonzalezās ability to weave impressionistic snapshots of romance into melodies that haunt like memories of past loves, all coalescing around his melting vocals.
Elsewhere, Gonzalez mounts movies in miniature with the photographic references of āFlashā and Fitzcarraldo echoes of āOpera Houseā, a song so lovingly languid it could, conceivably, soundtrack a man hauling ships over mountains for love. And, just as every good film-maker knows the need for a killer finale, so Gonzalez closes the album with the retro-romantic swing and teasingly filthy put-downs (the āsucking cockā lyric isnāt as barbed as it seems, just friendly joshing) of āYoung & Dumbā, which brings the album to a close with good, timeless advice: āDrive your car to the beach with the song on repeatā¦ā.
To mirror their woozy romanticism in music, Gonzalez rejected conventional studio routes for his band, which numbers Randy Miller on bass, Jacob Tomsky on drums and Phillip Tubbs on keyboards. Taking influence from The Cowboy Junkiesā The Trinity Session (recorded in a church, single microphone), Cigarettes recorded most of the album in three days at the Sweatshop rehearsal space, Bushwick. The exception is āEach Time You Fall in Loveā, which was recorded in the Beekmanās stairway after hours, the ghosts of screen lovers channelled in every warm note. Like the best movie, Cigarettes After Sex holds you in a hell of a spell.
Genre: Electronic/Pop
Format: Vinyl/LP
Track-list:
Side A
- K.
- Each Time You Fall In Love
- Sunsetz
- Apocalypse
- Flash
Side B
- Sweet
- Opera House
- Truly
- John Wayne
- Young & Dumb
Description
Debut album from Cigarettes After Sex on limited edition Clear Vinyl.
Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez's ability to set a scene and sustain a mood reels you in deeply. On album opener āK.ā, a tale of blossoming love etched in tiny details luxuriates over chiming guitars; on the hymn to romantic compulsion of āEach Time You Fall in Loveā, the suspended animation of Angelo Badalamentiās heart-stopping Twin Peaks music is echoed. āSunsetzā and the gently lilting āSweetā, meanwhile, showcase Gonzalezās ability to weave impressionistic snapshots of romance into melodies that haunt like memories of past loves, all coalescing around his melting vocals.
Elsewhere, Gonzalez mounts movies in miniature with the photographic references of āFlashā and Fitzcarraldo echoes of āOpera Houseā, a song so lovingly languid it could, conceivably, soundtrack a man hauling ships over mountains for love. And, just as every good film-maker knows the need for a killer finale, so Gonzalez closes the album with the retro-romantic swing and teasingly filthy put-downs (the āsucking cockā lyric isnāt as barbed as it seems, just friendly joshing) of āYoung & Dumbā, which brings the album to a close with good, timeless advice: āDrive your car to the beach with the song on repeatā¦ā.
To mirror their woozy romanticism in music, Gonzalez rejected conventional studio routes for his band, which numbers Randy Miller on bass, Jacob Tomsky on drums and Phillip Tubbs on keyboards. Taking influence from The Cowboy Junkiesā The Trinity Session (recorded in a church, single microphone), Cigarettes recorded most of the album in three days at the Sweatshop rehearsal space, Bushwick. The exception is āEach Time You Fall in Loveā, which was recorded in the Beekmanās stairway after hours, the ghosts of screen lovers channelled in every warm note. Like the best movie, Cigarettes After Sex holds you in a hell of a spell.
Genre: Electronic/Pop
Format: Vinyl/LP
Track-list:
Side A
- K.
- Each Time You Fall In Love
- Sunsetz
- Apocalypse
- Flash
Side B
- Sweet
- Opera House
- Truly
- John Wayne
- Young & Dumb
