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Cigarettes After Sex announce new LP & 2024 tour, playing Madison Square Garden

Greg Gonzalez‘s hazy dreampop project Cigarettes After Sex have announced a new album, X’s, which will be out July 12 via Partisan. “The record feels brutal,” says Gonzalez. “I could sit and talk about this loss to someone, but that wouldn’t scratch the surface. I have to really write about it, sing about it, have the music, and then I can start to analyze and learn from it. Or just relive it—in a good way. I don’t have that Eternal Sunshine-thing of wanting to forget.”

You can listen to lead single “Tejano Blue,” which was inspired by Gonzalez’s years growing up in Texas. “I grew up in El Paso & Tejano music is huge there,” he says. “You could go to a lot of the bars in the city & hear artists like Selena, Los Ángeles Azules & La Mafia playing over the speakers. It was in the atmosphere around me back then, but I always rejected it & gravitated towards anything else I was attracted to really. Years later when I was living in New York City I finally started listening to Selena’s “Como La Flor” at the same time that I was also listening to a lot of Cocteau Twins. I had the idea then to try to combine both of their sounds somehow, which felt a bit strange, but also felt like it was coming from a genuine place of rediscovering & finally connecting with the music that I heard around me in my youth.” Listen below.

Cigarettes After Sex have also announced a big 2024/2025 tour that includes NYC’s Madison Square Garden on September 6. Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday, March 8 at 10 AM local time. All dates are listed below.

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X’s tracklist:
X’s
Tejano Blue
Silver Sable3:54
Hideaway
Holding you, Holding me
Dark Vacay
Baby Blue Movie
Hot
Dreams From Bunker Hill
Ambien Slide

Cigarettes After Sex – 2024 Tour Dates
Jun 15, 2024 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
Aug 31, 2024 – Montreal, Canada – Centre Bell‍
Sep 1, 2024 – Toronto, Canada – Scotiabank Arena‍
Sep 3, 2024 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center‍
Sep 4, 2024 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Sep 6, 2024 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Sep 10, 2024 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sep 11, 2024 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
Sep 13, 2024 – Orlando, FL – Kia Center
Sep 14, 2024 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Sep 17, 2024 – San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center
Sep 18, 2024 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
Sep 20, 2024 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
Sep 21, 2024 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
Sep 23, 2024 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Sep 24, 2024 – Saint Paul, MN – XCel Energy Center
Sep 27, 2024 – Vancouver, Canada – Rogers Arena
Sep 28, 2024 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Sep 30, 2024 – Portland, OR – Moda Center
Oct 2, 2024 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
Oct 3, 2024 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center
Oct 5, 2024- Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena
Oct 7, 2024- San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena
Oct 8, 2024- Phoenix, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena
Oct 11, 2024 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
Oct 15, 2024 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes
Oct 25, 2024- Athens, Greece – OAKA Indoor Arena
Oct 28, 2024 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
Oct 29, 2024 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
Nov 1, 2024- Milan, Italy – Forum
Nov 3, 2024- Vienna, Austria – Wiener Stadthalle
Nov 5, 2024- Warsaw, Poland – COS Torwar
Nov 7, 2024- Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena
Nov 9, 2024- Basel, Switzerland – St. Jakobshalle
Nov 10, 2024 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena
Nov 12, 2024 – London, England – The O2 Arena
Nov 16, 2024 – Paris, France – Accor Arena
Nov 17, 2024 – Lyon, France – Halle Tony Garnier
Nov 20, 2024 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center
Nov 21, 2024 – Lisbon, Portugal – Altice Arena
Jan 9, 2025- Hong Kong, Hong Kong – AsiaWorld-Expo, Hall 5
Jan 11, 2025 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Sunway Lagoon
Jan 14, 2025 – Manila, Philippines – MOA Arena
Jan 17, 2025 – Jakarta, Indonesia – Beach City International
Jan 21, 2025 – Bangkok, Thailand – Impact Exhibition Hall 5
Mar 5, 2025- Cape Town, South Africa – Grand Arena at GrandWest
Mar 7, 2025- Pretoria, South Africa – SunBbet Arena
Mar 12, 2025 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena
Mar 14, 2025 – Sydney, Australia – ICC Sydney Theatre
Mar 17, 2025 – Brisbane, Australia – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Mar 19, 2025 – Auckland, New Zealand – Spark Arena