With X’s, Cigarettes After Sex finally takes centre stage as not just one of today’s preeminent indie bands, but as one of the most globally accomplished acts across any genre, whose often unconventional path to superstardom has helped reshape the very definition of success for artists in the modern era. Filled with raw, imagistic, sometimes smutty vignettes set to entrancing, slowburn pop songs, bandleader Greg Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires. But where previous albums have drawn from an amalgam of relationships, for the most part, X’s centralises on just one relationship that spanned four years.
Tracklist:
A1 X's
A2 Tejano Blue
A3 Silver Sable
A4 Hideaway
A5 Holding you, Holding me
B1 Dark Vacay
B2 Baby Blue Movie
B3 Hot
B4 Dreams From Bunker Hill
B5 Ambien Slide
Label: Partisan Records
Released: 2024