Cigarettes After Sex – Apocalypse (Radio Edit)

Labels: Partisan Records
Number of Tracks: 1
Total Time: 3:23
Formats: Alternative
Available Date & Time: March 2, 2018 10:00 AM ET
Country: USA

#1 on SiriusXM Alt Nation’s Alt 8 for the past two weeks!

Airplay on Alt Nation, XMU, KRBZ, Music Choice and WEQX

Over 17MM Spotify streams / 5.3MM+ YouTube views, hit #1 on Hype Machine Tracks, and featured in Tidal Rising’s Pick of the Week feature!

"I became aware of ‘Apocalypse’ while music supervising an upcoming film in which we ended up featuring the song. After researching the social media following of Cigarettes After Sex, plus sales and streaming numbers of a previous release, it seemed to me that this was an opportunity radio was missing. Going into the SiriusXMU PD job, ‘Apocalypse’ was the one record I knew I was going to add even before I started." — Chris Muckley, PD SiriusXMU

Cigarettes After Sex released their ‘Self-Titled’ debut album (June 9th 2017) on Partisan Records to rave reviews and many a best-of list. After selling out shows all around the world in 2017, including a headlining US run, they’re back with a slew of spring dates, all poised to sell out quickly.

Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez had a clear vision for his band’s debut album, a gorgeously cinematic work. After the phenomenal online break-out success of "Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby" (67+Million YouTube views to date), from the early Cigarettes After Sex EP (‘I.’) from 2012, the Brooklyn-based Gonzalez (originally from El Paso, Texas) wanted to project his worldview on to a bigger screen, a broader canvas. As Greg explains, "This is like the novel or feature-length version of Cigarettes. I wanted it to feel like a complete work, where some of the imagery repeats – like it’s all in the same world. It’s very much a fulfillment of the feelings in the short works."

That sense of fulfillment is richly felt on Cigarettes After Sex, which unspools like the most achingly romantic of movies: immersive, cohesive and transporting. Swooning in the spirit of influences such as Mazzy Star and Red House Painters, its sumptuous songs of love elevate Cigarettes to the ranks of those acts who create worlds of their own, exciting the most devoted kind of following – for Gonzalez, The Smiths were a reference point.

If the result is the spirit of pop-noir romanticism distilled, it’s also grand pay-off for Gonzalez’s band’s slow-burn gestation. Although Cigarettes seemed to spark into life over one breakthrough weekend in 2015, Gonzalez ignited the project in 2008. Early iterations nodded to 1980s-vintage New Order, Erasure and Madonna, before Gonzalez harkened back to darker influences such as Joy Division for a band makeover. A commitment to confessional, sexualized lyrics stuck early; Leonard Cohen’s ‘Chelsea Hotel No 2’ numbered among Greg’s reference points. Meanwhile, an amorphous band line-up began to solidify as keyboardist Phillip Tubbs became more of a permanent member.

For some of the band’s early years, Gonzalez studied music at the University of Texas, El Paso. He dropped out but his time there was not wasted. Attracted by the "echo-y" sonic potential of a university stairway, he recorded an EP there which, he says, "ended up being something special". Indeed, Cigarettes’ 2012 EP was so special Gonzalez struggled to follow it. When his patient perfectionism bore fruit with ‘Affection’, the online response took his breath away, he recalls. "There was this big flood of support over, like, a weekend… It was fairly emotional for me, because I’d been waiting for that since I started writing music."

Post-university, Gonzalez had moved to Brooklyn, where he bided his time working as a musician and managing a cinema, the Beekman Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. If his memories of holding private screenings with friends there sound romantic, so do his favorite films. The "strange mystery" and "hazy" romance of Antonioni’s L’Avventura was one influence; so was the "autumnal beauty" of Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique.

Apocalypse on YouTube

2018 Headlining North American Dates

3/23 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
3/24 Houston, TX @ In Bloom Fest
3/25 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
3/27 Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
3/28 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West **SOLD OUT**
3/29 Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
3/30 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
3/31 Charlottesville, VA @ The Jefferson Theater
4/02 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
4/03 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
4/05 Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
4/06 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club **SOLD OUT**
4/07 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel **SOLD OUT**
4/09 Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall **SOLD OUT**
4/10 Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
4/11 Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre
4/13 Columbus, OH @ Columbus Athenaeum
4/14 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
4/15 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
4/17 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
4/18 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
4/20 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
4/21 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
4/23 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre **SOLD OUT**
4/24 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom **SOLD OUT**
4/26 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore **SOLD OUT**
4/27 Los Angeles, CA @ Theatre at Ace Hotel **SOLD OUT**
4/28 Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
4/30 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
5/01 Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren

http://partisanrecords.com/press-kit/cigarettes-after-sex/

https://cigarettesaftersex.bandcamp.com/

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