Sweeping Promises - (PRESALE 8/14/26) You Say I Romanticize (YELLOW VINYL LP SUB POP 2026) | NEW

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You Say I Romanticize
(Colored Vinyl, Yellow)
Artist: Sweeping Promises Format: LP Release Date: 8/14/2026
LABEL: Sub Pop
VENDOR: Alternative Distr. Alliance
DISTRIBUTOR: AMPED
UPC: 098787147704
GENRE: Rock
RELEASE DATE: 8/14/2026
PRODUCT ID: SUB1477.1
WEIGHT: .59 lb
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Sweeping 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.
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Credits
1
Shooting Shadows
2
My Friend's An Entomologist
3
Last Man
4
Rapture, or
5
Abduction on Camera
6
My Anchoress
7
Cocoon
8
Accent
9
Does He Want to Be the Weatherman?
10
Write Lightly

SHIPS BY 8/14/2026

    You Say I Romanticize
    (Colored Vinyl, Yellow)
    Artist: Sweeping Promises Format: LP Release Date: 8/14/2026 

    Label: Sub Pop
    Vendor: Alternative Distr. Alliance
    Distributor: AMPED
    UPC: 098787147704
    Genre: Rock
    Release Date: 8/14/2026
    Product ID: SUB1477.1
    Weight: .5 lb

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Sweeping 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.

    Tracks
    Credits

    1 Shooting Shadows
    2 My Friend's An Entomologist
    3 Last Man
    4 Rapture, or
    5 Abduction on Camera
    6 My Anchoress
    7 Cocoon
    8 Accent
    9 Does He Want to Be the Weatherman?
    10 Write Lightly

• Condition: NEW
• Format: Vinyl
• Internal ID: 098787147704
• Genre: PUNK
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 8/14/2026