Cigarettes After Sex
The debut: ten songs, all by Gonzalez, recorded live in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Cigarettes After Sex, 2017
All ten songs are by Gonzalez, who played guitar and sang and recorded the album; Phillip Tubbs played keyboards, Randy Miller bass and Jacob Tomsky drums. Rocky Gallo mixed it and Greg Calbi mastered it. Time Out reports that most was recorded in a Brooklyn rehearsal space and one song in a movie-theater stairway on the Upper East Side. The singles were "K.", "Apocalypse" (March 2017), "Each Time You Fall in Love" and "Sweet".
Metacritic scored it 75. The Financial Times and the Guardian gave four stars each, PopMatters 8 out of 10, AllMusic three stars and Uncut 6 out of 10; Rough Trade placed it sixth among the albums of 2017.
Track listing
- K.5:19
- Each Time You Fall in Love4:50
- Sunsetz3:34
- Apocalypse4:50
- Flash4:34
- Sweet4:51
- Opera House6:04
- Truly4:03
- John Wayne4:18
- Young & Dumb4:33
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Sources
- Cigarettes After Sex (album), Wikipedia
- Interview: Cigarettes After Sex, Time Out (2017-05-05)