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Cigarettes After Sex

Data updated on 2025-07-08 07:40:22 UTC
Ten years ago Greg Gonzalez was having a really rough Valentine’s Day. Freshly heartbroken with no hope of reconciliation, he spent two hours driving from his hometown El Paso to play a show, and he listened to Sade’s “By Your Side” on repeat both ways. “The experience that day stuck in my bones—it was an idea that I couldn’t forget,” says Gonzalez, the frontman of Cigarettes After Sex. “I thought, how do I make a record that feels like that?”

With each record—the initial 2012 EP, 2017’s eponymous debut album, and 2019’s Cry— Gonzalez has been faithful to his muse: love. In raw, imagistic vignettes set to entrancing, slow-burn pop songs, Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires. But where previous albums have drawn from an amalgam of relationships, for the most part, their third, eagerly anticipated LP, X’s, centralises on just one relationship that spanned four years.

Genres

: dream pop

Total plays

5.3 billion
Updated on 2025-07-08

Country

United States

Social media links

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Monthly listeners

28,032,423

Followers

16,301,707

Top Cities

  1. Indonesia
    Jakarta
    833,576 listeners
  2. Turkey
    Istanbul
    258,765 listeners
  3. Indonesia
    Bandung
    354,485 listeners
  4. Philippines
    Quezon City
    264,842 listeners
  5. United States
    Los Angeles
    250,165 listeners

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Falling In Love
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You're All I Want
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Touch
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Don't Let Me Go
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Kiss It Off Me
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Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Dark Vacay
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Pure
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Bubblegum
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Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Bubblegum
Bubblegum
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Bubblegum
Bubblegum
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Pistol
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You're All I Want
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[Partisan Records]
You're All I Want
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Cry
Cry
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Falling In Love
Falling In Love
2019-10-08
[Partisan Records]
Heavenly
Heavenly
2019-08-28
[Partisan Records]
Heavenly
Heavenly
2019-08-28
[Partisan Records]
Neon Moon
Neon Moon
2018-12-17
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Neon Moon
Neon Moon
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[Spanish Prayers]
Crush
Crush
2018-07-10
[PTKF]
Crush
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Sweet
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2017-08-29
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Apocalypse
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