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Cigarettes After Sex returns to bigger audience
The band opened the performance with its 2017 single “Affection”, which was met with an audience choir consisting mostly of young girls.
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Ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex serenades a hall full of screaming fans on the third day of We The Fest 2019 on July 21. (JP/I Gede Dharma JS)
Ambient pop band Cigarettes After Sex serenaded a hall full of screaming fans on the third day of We The Fest 2019 on Sunday.
The band performed on the indoor stage of This Stage is Bananas at 9:40 p.m. just after fellow American band Warpaint.
The brain of the band, Greg Gonzalez, stepped onto the stage accompanied by the other three players, all in black, underlining the band’s black-and-white aesthetic. The lighting of the stage and the backdrop screen were also adjusted to the vintage, dreamy, black and white visual.
The band opened the performance with its 2017 single “Affection”, which was met with an audience choir consisting mostly of young girls.
The song was then followed by “Crush”, “Sunsetz”, “K”, “Sweet”, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”, and a cover of REO Speedwagon’s “Keep on Loving You”.
The band closed the performance with “Apocalypse”.
The number of audience members filling the hall on Sunday night had increased significantly from when the band gave its first performance in Indonesia on Aug 16, 2017, indicating a rise in its popularity in the country.
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Cigarettes After Sex started as a side musical project of Greg Gonzalez, who recorded the first demo using facilities of his alma mater, University of Texas in El Paso.
Gonzalez’s project was met with huge enthusiasm through music recommendations on YouTube, which led him to establish the band for live performances across the US, Europe and Asia. The band released its self-titled debut studio album on June 9, 2017.
Music critics have acclaimed the band’s works as ethereal, noir and melancholy, owing to the hazy music and Gonzalez’s androgynous vocals. (mut)
