Sweeping Promises Drop New Album “You Say I Romanticise”

Sweeping Promises have today released their new full length, You Say I Romanticize, via Sub Pop Records, the album is a tribute to the chaos of creation and collaboration under shifting circumstances. Guitarist Caufield Schnug and bassist & vocalist Lira Mondal, along with touring drummer Spenser Gralla, found and tested themselves in their combination tour house and recording studio in Kansas, annually working on dozens of albums from other bands, hosting tour stops, planning shows, and the like. After an immersive process of tracking and whittling down You Say I Romanticize demos and carving out an idiosyncratic chamber-recording method for the album’s intentional wall-of-sound. The album’s frenzied execution, akin to the group’s renowned live show, prevails most of all in Mondal’s exhilarating vocals. Whereas previously, you might have heard a growl here and there on certain Sweeping Promises tracks, the band’s formidable singer shouts, roars, hits all sorts of tricky notes, and shreds her throat across You Say I Romanticize.

A shadow side exists along with Sweeping Promises‘ love of their artistic community, borne of weirdos channeling their misfit status into vibrant art and punk rock music, often passing through the revolving door that is their home studio. You Say I Romanticize takes the art-by-any-means-necessary ethos Mondal and Schnug have developed over the years and turns the prompt upside-down, landing on a personality epidemic manifesting across all ten tracks. Sweeping Promises have long been progenitors of concept-forward art-punk music that is remarkably immediate and irresistible. Sweeping Promises will be taking You Say I Romanticize out on the road on their North American headline tour dates, the first leg begins on September 9th, in Oklahoma City and runs through to September 27th in Denver, CO. The follow-up run begins on October 27th in Omaha, NE, and ends on November 18th in Nashville, TN. You can view Sweeping Promises tour dates and purchase tickets here.