Cigarettes After Sex - Cry

The Guardian 80

(Partisan Records)
Staying firmly in his sweet spot, Greg Gonzalez repeats the autobiographical oversharing and the sheer ambient pop pleasure of the band’s first album

Greg Gonzalez is, evidently, very much a believer in not attempting to fix what isn’t broken. It’s not just that Cry sounds like the first Cigarettes After Sex album – it sounds like a tribute to the first Cigarettes After Sex album. Lads, have we remembered the whispered, androgynous vocals? Have we got the pace sepulchral? Stop playing chords, dammit, we need spidery guitar lines!

Pitchfork 40

Greg Gonzalez has a lovely voice and a convincingly atmospheric take on dream pop, neither of which is well served by his two-dimensional fantasies.