Cafuné – Bite Reality
Today, multi-Platinum duo Cafuné have released their second album Bite Reality via the band’s own Aurelians Club label, distributed by SoundOn.
Bite Reality is about the fine line between documenting your existence and doing the work to actually exist. What does humanity look, sound, and feel like in a dehumanizing era? Why prove that you’re alive when you can just live?
The band shared, “At the end of the day, all we have is one another. You can’t take anything with you when the lights go out. Embrace the future, bite reality.”
Four years ago, in a vastly different context, the duo of Noah Yoo and Sedona Schat, released Running, a bionic debut album that soundtracked a collective urge for post-pandemic escapism. That record, Schat says, “is literally all about running away.” But as Cafuné enters their tenth year, their foundational questions—of authenticity, artificiality, and the existential tension between the two—feel more pressing than ever. “The entire time that the band has existed,” Schat says, “it’s always been about negotiating between digital manipulation and raw realness.”
This moment—one increasingly defined by AI, algorithms, and artificial intimacy—is very much a bastion of “digital manipulation” in itself. Recorded in 2024, their new record Bite Reality finds the band at a familiar crossroads, reckoning between real and fake. The difference, this time around, is that they’re doing it in the real world, too. And it sounds like it. Bite Reality captures Cafuné in a confrontational state, no longer running from the bite of reality, but biting reality back. Their guitars growl; their vocals snarl; their lyrics teem with brutal honesty, not avoidant analogy.
Beginning next week, Cafuné will set out on their headline Alive Online Tour, playing the largest rooms of their career to date. Along the way, they will be supported by crushed.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
September 19 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis*
September 20 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore – The Foundry*
September 22 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall*
September 23 – Montréal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB*
September 24 – Toronto, ON – The Great Hall*
September 26 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall*
September 27 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon*
September 30 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall*
October 2 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge*
October 5 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*
October 6 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile – Madame Lou’s*
October 8 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club*
October 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom*
October 12 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge*
October 14 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas – Cambridge Room*
October 15 – Austin, TX – The Parish*
October 17 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade – Hell*
October 18 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle – Backroom*
October 22 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg*
*with support from crushed
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