Cigarettes After Sex have released their dreamy new single “Heavenly.” The track will be featured on their new second studio album Cry releasing Oct. 25 via Partisan Records. Frontman Greg Gonzalez discussed the new track in a press release, stating that “Heavenly” was “inspired by the overwhelming beauty [he] felt watching an endless sunset on a secluded beach in Latvia one summer night….”
The band recorded Cry at a mansion on the island of Mallorca. “The sound of this record is completely tied to the location for me,” Gonzalez stated. “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.”
The album was influenced by films from Éric Rohmer, and songs from Selena and Shania Twain. It was self-produced and engineered by Gonzalez, and mixed by Craig Silvey, who has worked with Arcade Fire and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. See the full tracklist below.
The band will also be going on an extensive world tour, slated to begin Sept. 26 in Vancouver, BC. Other stops include Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, back-to-back nights in Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia, concluding Oct. 27 in Boston. The European tour will begin shortly after with shows in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Manchester, London and Bristol. See the full list of tour dates below.
‘Cry’ tracklisting:
1. Don’t Let Me Go
2. Kiss It Off Me
3. Heavenly
4. You’re the Only Good Thing in My Life
5. Touch
6. Hentai
7. Cry
8. Falling In Love
9. Pure
Cigarettes After Sex Tour Dates:
9/26/19 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
9/27/19 – Seattle, WA – Neptune
9/29/19 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
10/1/19 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
10/3/19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
10/4/19 – Santa Ana, CA – Yost Theater
10/5/19 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
10/7/19 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
10/8/19 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
10/10/19 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theater
10/11/19 – Kansas City, MO – The Truman
10/12/19 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
10/13/19 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/15/19 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
10/16/19 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
10/17/19 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
10/18/19 – Covington, KY – Madison Theater
10/19/19 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
10/21/19 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
10/23/19 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
10/24/19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
10/25/19 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
10/26/19 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
10/27/19 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
11/2/19 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
11/3/19 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
11/7/19 – Brussels, BE – Cirque Royal
11/8/19 – Paris, FR – Olympia
11/9/19 – Benidorm, ES – Primavera 20th Anniversary Weekender
11/11/19 – Barcelona, ES – Sala Apolo
11/12/19 – Barcelona, ES – Sala Apolo
11/14/19 – Milan, IT – Alcatraz
11/16/19 – Zurich, CH – Plaza
11/17/19 – Zurich, CH – Plaza
11/18/19 – Vienna, AT – Arena
11/19/19 – Vienna, AT – Arena
11/20/19 – Prague, CZ – Roxy
11/22/19 – Copenhagen, DK – The Grey Hall
11/23/19 – Berlin, DE – Tempodrome
11/25/19 – Cologne, DE – Palladium
11/27/19 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
11/28/19 – London, UK – Shepherds Bush Empire
3/23/20 – Bristol, UK – Academy
3/24/20 – London, UK – Hammersmith Apollo
3/25/20 – Birmingham, UK – Institute
3/27/20 – Leeds, UK – University
3/28/30 -Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
3/29/20 – Liverpool, UK – Academy
4/1/20 – Hamburg, DE – Fabrik
4/3/20 – Oslo, NO – Rockefeller
4/4/20 – Stockholm, SE – Slaktkyrkan
4/6/20 – Aarhus, DE – Voxhall
4/8/20 – Luxembourg City, LU – den Atelier