{"product_id":"sweeping-promises-you-say-i-romanticize-cd-1","title":"Sweeping Promises – You Say I Romanticize Music CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping Promises built their reputation on recordings made in a single room with a deliberately limited setup, a constraint that became a signature rather than a compromise. That DIY discipline has kept them fiercely independent in spirit even as their audience has grown well beyond the underground circuits where they started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping Promises' introduction to the global punk underground was their debut album, Hunger for a Way Out, which ended up being one of the breakout successes in music during pandemic lockdown. In 2023, they followed up with Good Living is Coming for You, a satirical, hyper-critical rebuke of capitalism that made Album of the Year lists for Pitchfork, NPR, Paste, and BBC, just to name a few. Bassist\/vocalist Lira Mondal and guitarist Caufield Schnug decided to tilt their approach a few degrees forward on their third LP. The big theme of You Say I Romanticize is hinted at in it's title. Coming from a lyric sung on album closer \"Write Lightly\"-a narrative about the importance of self-expression in writing being scrubbed away by \"professional\" concerns-many of the characters singer\/bassist Mondal fleshed out here are outcasts, marginalized by society and turned into fanatics for a cornucopia of specific causes.The visceral songwriting on You Say I Romanticize features an equally visceral musical approach. Sweeping Promises brought live drummer Spenser Gralla into the recording sessions to give the songs a similar urgency to their live show. The frenzy of it's execution also materializes in Mondal's vocal performances.A shadow side exists along with Sweeping Promises' love of their artistic community-borne of weirdos channeling their \"outcast\" status into vibrant art and punk rock music. You Say I Romanticize takes the ethos Mondal and Schnug have developed and explores the obsessive, fanatical aspects of being ostracized and isolated by mainstream society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen=\"\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Shooting Shadows\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. My Friend's An Entomologist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Last Man\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Rapture, Or...\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Abduction On Camera\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. My Anchoress\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. Cocoon\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. Accent\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. Does He Want To Be The Weatherman?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. Write Lightly\u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 098787147728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sub Pop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.14.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"relix.shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991391248626,"sku":"196024787","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/packshot-sweeping-promises-you-say-i-romanticize-cd-relix.jpg?v=1787925880","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/sweeping-promises-you-say-i-romanticize-cd-1","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}