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Dec 14, 2017Some of these stories are not fleshed out as poetic or romantic as the music might suggest, yet it’s forgivable in the sense that Cigarettes After Sex successfully transport you to an erotic world entirely their own.
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MojoJul 25, 2017The effect is a bit like pleasantly nodding off to a Mazzy Star record and, like the smoke off the titular post-coital gaspers, the intoxicating atmosphere lingers long after the tracks have played out. [Sep 2017, p.88]
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Jul 17, 2017Many dream-pop bands don't have songs this good nor do they have singers this good who aren't afraid to put their vocals up front without burying them with effects. Those things, along with the wonderful production (by Gonzalez himself) are what makes this release truly exciting.
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Jun 21, 2017Cigarettes After Sex are the stuff of late night drives, old black-and-white films, and prolonged hedonistic reveries worth revisiting again and again.
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Jun 20, 2017Cigarettes After Sex have released an excellent album. After you’ve heard one song you might think the next one is similar, or even the same on repeat, but once you delve down a little deeper, you will categorically not be disappointed.
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Jun 9, 2017Minimalism is an integral part of the artistry, but with such intoxicating and candid notions, the balance reached is so perfectly aligned for this type of music, and in such an apathetic age, material like this really is a dying art; savour it.
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Jun 8, 2017Addictive, memorable and with the potential to reach an audience far wider than the cult following that normally awaits this kind of stuff, they’re the reason why an album where every track’s sonic components are more or less the same never feels monotonous or boring.
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Q MagazineJun 6, 2017It's a beautiful thing--its 10 songs have a drowsy, mizzled feel, reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins. [Aug 2017, p.103]
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Jun 6, 2017All 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.
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Jun 9, 2017What saves this El Paso-born, Brooklyn-based group from being just another trafficker of “Lynchian” indie-rock tropes is Gonzalez’s ability to capture moments and stretch them into lusty little pop daydreams.
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Jun 8, 2017Through wallowing in its own mire and coming out the other side, Cigarettes After Sex becomes one of those restrained, low-boil albums where tempo, repetition, and muted composition construct an entire story within the pauses between the notes and the ideas between the lines.
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Jul 20, 2017Despite the still occasionally underdeveloped, teenage diary-like lyrics, there are glimpses of more comedic moments amongst the angst.
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Jun 6, 2017At times, Gonzalez’s penchant for dramatizing and confessional nature work almost too well, and you get the feeling you’re hearing something that was only meant to be shared between two people.
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Jun 15, 2017Overall, chronically anti-romantic moments are eclipsed by sweet, somnambulant melodies that may not quicken the pulse but often hypnotize nevertheless.
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UncutJun 6, 2017Arguably, they are a little one-paced and some looseness would not have gone amiss--but the candid, striking honest lyrics about sex and love bear the strain. [Jul 2017, p.26]
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Jun 6, 2017Cigarettes After Sex ends up overstaying its welcome. Most of the tracks retain the same languid pace, drifting through slowly like smoke lingering in the air.
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Jul 19, 2017At once droll and melancholic, Cigarettes After Sex struggles to earn the aural beauty it desperately seeks.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 79 out of 90
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Mixed: 8 out of 90
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Negative: 3 out of 90
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