When the world’s vibrant color acts to only blind us from reality, Cigarettes After Sex’s grayscale brand of alternative dream-pop is here to place things into a clearer perspective. The Texas-born project led by Greg Gonzalez has a busy year ahead, with new album X’s due in July and a world tour that returns to Boston for a September slow-burn at TD Garden.
Today (April 16) we’re treated to an atmospheric new single called “Dark Vacay,” and it takes us with Gonzalez as he travels the world, experiencing joy and excitement as a tourist while also being a stranger in a doomed relationship, the two feelings rising to a busy surface in an intangled unison.
“This song is about a romance I had a few years ago,” Gonzalez says. “We went on tour together & were lucky enough to go to all these wonderful places, mostly having fun at first. As the tour continued though, everything started falling apart & we ended up breaking up by the end of it. I was left wishing that we were somehow able to see all of the beauty around us before it was too late…”
Take a trip with Cigarettes After Sex below.