“Affection” was the first single Cigarettes After Sex had released in three years after their debut EP. While the two verses taken together can seem to depict an abusive relationship, frontman Greg Gonzalez assures that the song is actually a pastiche of two unrelated narratives: his drunken banter with his friends in the first verse and his love for his girlfriend in the second verse. A 2016 Bandcamp article describes the song as “half bittersweet apology, half long-distance relationship ballad.

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