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![]() ![]() But I think it suits us well.” Writing explicit lyrics “The name is really loaded so I get what those people are saying. “Luckily most people love the name.” I’m not sure about that, I suggest. That is one of several aspects that make Cigarettes After Sex stand out from a congested dream-pop field, the most obvious being that name, coined after a “ritual I had with a friend with benefits”.ĭepending on your viewpoint it’s either memorably throwaway or jarringly awful. He speaks in a voice so deep it seems incompatible with the androgynous register on his songs that had many assuming Cigarettes After Sex had a female singer. I would have had to give up being myself”. ![]() “It wasn’t in me to quit, it was too ingrained. “I’d have died without this” he tells me at one point, and insists that even in the days of struggle, or the “days that have been erased” as he puts it, he wouldn’t have ever given up. Gonzalez has a playful side, but he takes the project immensely seriously. Such is the surprise level of success – 175,000 album sales of last year’s self-titled debut album more than 4 million streams, selling out the 5,000 capacity Brixton Academy – record label Partisan threw a party on the day of their last London show at the Roundhouse to celebrate. YouTube stars go viral, not really bands.”Ĭigarettes After Sex haven’t looked back. It was, as Gonzalez puts it, “basically like lightning striking. Sleeping soundly with the locket that she gave you clutched in your fistĬigarettes After Sex frontman on going viral Cigarettes After Sex have circumvented perceived wisdom that indie bands are doomed in the modern age of declining sales and mundane Spotify playlists, by becoming an old-fashioned word-of-mouth triumph.įormed in 2008, Gonzalez’ project was uniformly ignored until 2015 when “Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby”, a track from 2012 EP I., became an unlikely online sensation, racking up 65 million views. Sharing all your secrets with each other since you were kids Go and sneak us through the rivers flood is rising up on your knees You’ve been hiding them in hollowed out pianos left in the dark Kisses on the foreheads of the lovers wrapped in your arms You've been locked in here forever and you just can't say goodbye You leapt from crumbling bridges watching cityscapes turn to dustįilming helicopters crashing in the ocean from way above ![]()
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