Cry by Cigarettes After Sex

Cry, the second Cigarettes After Sex album, drifted out on Partisan Records on October 25, 2019, two years after the self-titled debut that critics had warmed to, with "Heavenly" sent ahead as the single. Greg Gonzalez, who founded the band in El Paso in 2008, talks about it like a film: made in Mallorca, a string of characters and scenes that add up to a study of romance, beauty and sex. He also meant it as a snapshot of a single moment, with the flaws left in because the flaws are what make it honest.

The music is as hushed and slow as ever, and Gonzalez has explained why: after a heartbreak, gentle, peaceful sounds were what he needed while everything inside him churned. That androgynous murmur floats over guitars blurred to a glow. "Falling in Love" took him two years; he wrote its chorus between tours, a long way from any romance of his own.

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