Amoeba Music

UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. Thanks to all the fans who came down to Amoeba to pre-order their new album! We'll see you back here on Friday!

Cigarettes After Sex celebrate the release of their new album X's (Partisan Records) with an LP signing at Amoeba Hollywood Friday, July 12th at 12pm noon! Pre-order your copy in-store at Amoeba Hollywood starting NOW to get a ticket to attend the signing.

Info/rules:

- In-store purchase only. No online or phone orders for this special event.

- Limit of 1 LP + 1 signing ticket per person.

- Band will be signing copies of X's only. No outside or additional items please.

- No photos with band will be possible.

- Space is limited.

They'll return in the fall for two sold-out nights at Kia Forum, October 11th and 12th.

With the release of Cigarettes After Sex’s third album, X’s, the band finally takes center stage as not just one of today’s preeminent indie bands, but as one of the most globally accomplished acts across any genre, whose often unconventional path to superstardom has helped reshape the very definition of success for artists in the modern era. All of this is coming at a time when the band’s audience continues to peak across platforms, and just after some big milestones, from Cigarettes After Sex being certified platinum in the US by the RIAA, to sitting at #232 of Spotify’s Top 500 Artists with 23.5M Monthly Listeners, to claiming five different sounds in the top 1% of TikTok’s top viral growth.

Their continuing rise is made all the more remarkable when you consider the band members remain shadowy figures, there are no music videos, and their artwork is forever in moody monochrome. But in the era of the cult of personality, perhaps it’s this ongoing adherence to aesthetic, the rejection of overexposure in favor of a little mystique, that’s created the space for fans to truly commune with their music, sharing it like an illicit secret.

Filled with raw, imagistic, sometimes smutty vignettes set to entrancing, slowburn pop songs, bandleader Greg Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires. But where previous albums have drawn from an amalgam of relationships, for the most part, X’s centralizes on just one relationship that spanned four years.

While continuing to observe classic pop song structures, Gonzalez has moved away from the prior sonic touchstones of the ‘50s and ‘60s, finding himself now drawn to a ‘70s/’80s slow dance. While (in typical Cigarettes style) these changes may be subtle, the overall resulting energy is akin to disco ball-refracted tears on the dance floor.