Cigarettes After Sex - Cry
Critic Score
Based on 20 reviews
2019 Ratings: #662 / 805
User Score
Based on 590 ratings
2019 Rank: #760
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
XS Noize
“Cry” is a slow, sonic catharsis on sex and romance, of love and lust. The reward comes with repeated listens as each song stands up on its own merits – haunting and hypnotic.
90
Exclaim!

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.

85
Under the Radar

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.

80
Clash

Blending a set of nine beautifully melodic tracks, 'Cry' is the keenly-anticipated second release fans have been waiting for.

80
The Independent

Cry doesn’t claim to have any answers about love, but it could certainly encourage you to think about it differently.

80
Mojo
Almost everything here sounds pre-designed for drone-shot driving sequences in a slow-burning indie film, but in a very good way.
80
The Guardian

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

70
Uncut
If the tunes don't all stun as surely this time around, lyrically they're bolder.
70
Gigwise

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.

70
PopMatters
Brooklyn dream pop darlings, Cigarettes After Sex re-emerge from the touring circuit with their second record of lust, longing, and nicotine-stained regret.
60
The Skinny

On Cry, Cigarettes After Sex become increasingly more intimate and the perfect soundtrack to slow dance to.

60
NME
A shoegaze band for the Instagram generation, the American trio have created a nine-song that conveys a deep sense of yearning, like The xx at their most tender.
60
Northern Transmissions

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.

60
AllMusic

For a project based on amorous and sensual pleasures, Cigarettes After Sex feels a little too one-dimensional.

60
Q Magazine

Sensual melancholy is a mood but Cry occasionally needs another one or two up its heart adorned sleeve.

40
Pitchfork
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.
40
No Ripcord

With Cry, the instrumentation has turned into self-parody, the production is a painful slog, and the worst lyrics are impossible to ignore.

30
Loud and Quiet

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.

PipePanic
50

It's a Cigarettes after Sex album. That's all.

Doofy
82

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.

6inchlouboutins
82

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 💀

michl_good22
78

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.

lemuriams
50

Despite their flat sound so far, on this album they flattened it even more and bored the listeners even more

75

Not bad neither good the songs sound kinda the same

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Added on: August 28, 2019