The American group Cigarettes After Sex has been collecting millions of views on Youtube for years, when singer Greg Gonzalez, decides to release the album, the famous titles rearranged plus some new ones, already dedicated even before its release. Quite maniacal aesthete of a sound that was finally reproduced by chance in a stairwell of his university, the eponymous album bewitches.Explanations.
A happy unexpected
An angel passes: the echo that happened by chance in the lobby of this college must have made Greg Gonzales ' head sounded, astonished, inebriated. Also enamoured: " K" is Kristen, her cam, her crystal, her cigarette, it is her first girl who pursues him in these words. "Come right back" whispers suavely, while when we listen to it, we selfish, lament Kristen not to return, so that her melancholy continues to benefit our ears in lack of passion. Passion, there is, it is an understatement in "Each Time You Fall In Love", a jewel placed on a silver tray, made of incredible arrangements by their simplicity, it is this title that was recorded in the famous college hall, where the echo so inspiring, so mesmerizing, was captured and then transcribed. The place where it all began. Where now Greg is crying out for a friend who sacrifices everything for her (Kristen, again?). All in a vaporous emanation of Mojave 3, Slowdive and all the dream-folk cream of the 80s. We are in 2017 and we say that, nevertheless, the beautiful works that remain are those that are not quantified, that are minimalized by their means, whose compositions can be interpreted by any average guitar player, and therefore addressed and accessible to all. A soul, an androgynous voice, like Chinawoman's, and a fucking staircase echo. Listen to a little "Apocalypse", this kind of timeless tunes, these jingles that only a few rare beautiful perched spirits can harvest within their talent as musicians.
Velvety the music
The name of this talent, the talents of Cigarettes After Sex, intrigues: the mythical cigarette after love. Both very explicit and without vulgarity, this name perhaps defines the very essence of the elevation that only we humans can make of sex. A record with the letters of "Cigarettes After Sex" in white, sells somewhere this post-coital pleasure, promises post-orgasmic sensations.Post, really? The sensuality of this voice, the penetrating accessibility of "Sweet", combined with a rosé with the dress of an exotic mother-of-pearl, a sweet flavor, calls only to know each other better.We finally think that the band could very well be called "Wine before (during) sex". Just as in human experiences, the music that remains, that resists the pangs of its history or its betrayals, is that of love.
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Currently on tour throughout Europe, including June 29 at the Werchter Rock festival (Belgium), November 3 at the Pitchfork Festival in Paris and November 22 at the Laiterie de Strasbourg.
