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Cigarettes After Sex: ‘Our lyrics might be a bit dirty for some people’
The Texan band’s risqué name and sultry brand of dream-pop has earned them billions of streams. They talk about writing immortal love songs and eyebrow-raising wordplay
Photograph: Ebru YildizGonzalez’s inspirations also include Julee Cruise, whose ethereal voice entranced a generation via David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet and TV series Twin Peaks. He’d initially formed Cigarettes After Sex in 2008 as a New Order/Erasure-type electropop band, but after pouring more emotions into the songs he recorded the first EP in an echoey stairwell at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he’d been a “terrible” music student a decade before. The song Dark Vacay describes an initially blissful union that ran aground during a vacation to the pyramids, although it seems the line “I listen to the last message that you left, then the voice from the suicide hotline” has a dollop of poetic licence.
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