Cry will make you cry, because Gonzalez knows what he's doing. It's cathartic, stunning, it'll awaken your senses and it's not to be missed.
Cry, the relatively swift follow-up is, if anything, even more moody, subtle, and ethereal than the debut, masterfully swooning into the sublime on songs such as “Kiss It Off Me,” an addictively warm hug of a song that may have welcome, wandering hands.
Blending a set of nine beautifully melodic tracks, 'Cry' is the keenly-anticipated second release fans have been waiting for.
Cry doesn’t claim to have any answers about love, but it could certainly encourage you to think about it differently.
Staying firmly in his sweet spot, Greg Gonzalez repeats the autobiographical oversharing and the sheer ambient pop pleasure of the band’s first album.
Cry sees Gonzalez, Jacob Tomsky and Randy Miller take the heady aphrodisiac of their debut and subtly reshape it: here, cynicism is drained away, guitars mix into a softer palette and Cigarettes After Sex finally know what it really means to fall in love.
On Cry, Cigarettes After Sex become increasingly more intimate and the perfect soundtrack to slow dance to.
On Cry, Gonzalez shows he is willing to put in the labour to make his love last. Cigarettes After Sex should have shown their new songs the same devotion instead of being so smitten by the initial results.
For a project based on amorous and sensual pleasures, Cigarettes After Sex feels a little too one-dimensional.
Sensual melancholy is a mood but Cry occasionally needs another one or two up its heart adorned sleeve.
With Cry, the instrumentation has turned into self-parody, the production is a painful slog, and the worst lyrics are impossible to ignore.
If Beach House is the meal, Cigarettes After Sex is now the faint neutralized waft of flavour when you begrudgingly wash the dishes, scraping off the residue of old food and dried gravy. A variant of this tasted good, once upon a time.
Awww yeah boy, that debut could have been a double set and here is the proof.
This, NOW THIS HERE, this is legendary.
Nurse...my tablets if you will. A glass of water please, my mouth is dry. Thank you.
fav tracks:
Kiss It Off Me (X)
Heaven
Touch
Cry (X)
It sounds all the same so if you like one song youre gonna like all of them 💀
this is basically the same as the self titled debut, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, i think there are some amazing songs on here bc i do unironically enjoy cas, heavenly is one of my fav songs atm. but i think some of the songs on here don't quite execute on the beautiful, slow, and melancholy present on the better songs of theirs. still enjoyed and will undoubtedly come back to this at 12am in bed.
Despite their flat sound so far, on this album they flattened it even more and bored the listeners even more
1 | Don't Let Me Go 4:22 | 73 |
2 | Kiss It Off Me 4:29 | 67 |
3 | Heavenly 4:46 | 73 |
4 | You're the Only Good Thing in My Life 4:35 | 62 |
5 | Touch 4:52 | 66 |
6 | Hentai 4:45 | 55 |
7 | Cry 4:16 | 79 |
8 | Falling in Love 4:05 | 69 |
9 | Pure 4:14 | 60 |
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