The First Single from Cigarettes After Sex’s New Album Cry Is “Heavenly”
Photos by Ebru Yildiz
Cigarettes After Sex made a hushed and sensual splash with their 2017 self-titled debut, and the Greg Gonzalez-led indie-pop project will soon return with a second record, Cry, out Oct. 25 on Partisan Records. “Heavenly” is an apt title for the LP’s head-over-heels lead single, released Tuesday alongside the album’s announcement.
The song was “inspired by the overwhelming beauty I felt watching an endless sunset on a secluded beach in Latvia one summer night,” says frontman and guitarist Gonzalez, whose whispered vocals snake their way through syrupy synths, gleaming guitars, throbbing bass and gently tapped percussion. “This is where I want to be,” Gonzalez sings, “where it’s so sweet and heavenly.”
The band recorded Cry during nighttime sessions at a mansion on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, with Gonzalez self-producing and engineering the album, and Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) mixing it. “The sound of this record is completely tied to the location for me,” says Gonzalez. “Ultimately, I view this record as a film. It was shot in this stunning, exotic location, and it stitches all these different characters and scenes together, but in the end is really about romance, beauty & sexuality. It’s a very personal telling of what those things mean to me.”
Cigarettes After Sex will tour the world in support of Cry—their global headlining run comprises stops at The Wiltern (Oct. 3) in Los Angeles, and Brooklyn Steel (Oct. 24) and Webster Hall (Oct 23) in New York City, as well as more dates to be announced soon.
Listen to “Heavenly” below, plus Cigarettes After Sex’s 2017 Paste Studio session, and find the details of Cry further down, along with the band’s upcoming tour dates. You can preorder their new album here.
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