Cigarettes After Sex today announce that they will be touring Australia in March 2025, performing shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as part of their upcoming world tour. The news comes as the band also reveal that their new LP, titled X’s, will be released 12 July 2024 via Partisan Records / Liberator Music.

Filled with raw, imagistic, sometimes smutty vignettes set to entrancing, slowburn pop songs, bandleader Greg Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires. But where previous albums have drawn from an amalgam of relationships, for the most part, X’s centralizes on just one relationship that spanned four years.

“The record feels brutal,” admits 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.”

While continuing to observe classic pop song structures, Gonzalez has moved away from the prior sonic touchstones of the ‘50s and ‘60s, finding himself now drawn to a ‘70s/’80s slow dance. While (in typical Cigarettes style) these changes may be subtle, the overall resulting energy is akin to disco ball-refracted tears on the dance floor.

With billions of streams and countless sold-out performances in their wake, Cigarettes After Sex’ X’s World Tour will take in some of the globe’s most iconic venues including New York’s Madison Square Garden and London’s O2 Arena before heading down under for the band’s first Australian dates since a sold out run of shows in 2018.