If you like Cigarettes After Sex, try these 6 artists

Cigarettes After Sex started in El Paso, Texas in 2008, when Greg Gonzalez began making slow, reverb-soaked songs about love and the hours after midnight. The band self-released the EP I. on 21 July 2012, and the song "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby" found its audience through a fan upload on YouTube around early 2016. Their self-titled debut followed on 9 June 2017, then Cry in 2019 and X's on 12 July 2024. In 2026 they put out "Twizzler" on 19 May.

If that unhurried, androgynous voice is your late-night soundtrack, here are six artists who live in the same dim room. Every pick is ours, and we skipped the names every "fans also like" row throws at you first.

1. Mazzy Star

Start with Mazzy Star, because this is where the whole sound comes from. The band formed in Santa Monica in 1988 around guitarist David Roback and singer Hope Sandoval. "Fade Into You," from So Tonight That I Might See (1993), reached No. 3 on the US Modern Rock chart and No. 44 on the Hot 100. It is slow, sad and warm at once, which is the Cigarettes After Sex recipe thirty years early.

2. Rhye

Rhye is the Toronto project of Mike Milosh, who began with Danish producer Robin Hannibal. "Open" and "The Fall" appeared online with no names attached, and the high, breathy voice on them had people guessing the singer was a woman. The debut album Woman came out in March 2013. If Gonzalez's voice is the draw, start with "Open".

3. Wild Nothing

Wild Nothing is Jack Tatum, a one-man project from Blacksburg, Virginia, who records alone and tours with a band. His second album Nocturne (28 August 2012, Captured Tracks) holds "Paradise," a bright, aching guitar song that sounds like a memory you are still inside. His latest album is Hold, from 27 October 2023.

4. Still Corners

Still Corners are Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes, a London duo formed in 2007. Their debut Creatures of an Hour arrived on Sub Pop in 2011, and "The Trip" shows what they do best: cinematic, empty-road guitars with Murray's voice floating over the top. Their most recent album, Dream Talk, came out on 5 April 2024.

5. Komorebi

Komorebi is Tarana Marwah, a musician from New Delhi. Her second album The Fall, co-produced with Gaurav Raina, follows her 2017 debut Soliloquy and tells one story across music, videos and a comic book. The sound leans electronic and cinematic, with trip-hop in places. Try "I Grew Up" for late-night headphones, and keep her recent single "Ud Ke Chali" on the list.

6. Peter Cat Recording Co.

Peter Cat Recording Co. formed in New Delhi in 2009 around Suryakant Sawhney's voice and a band that swings between cabaret, jazz and indie pop. "Floated By," from Bismillah (7 June 2019), is the way in: slow, wry and lit like a bar at closing time. If you want a Delhi answer to the romance of Cigarettes After Sex, this is it.

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