{"product_id":"sweeping-promises-you-say-i-romanticize-ltd-ed-multi-colored-splatter-vinyl-first-pressing-loser-edition","title":"Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize [Ltd Ed Multi-Colored Splatter Vinyl\/ First Pressing LOSER Edition]","description":"\u003cp\u003eSweeping Promises’ introduction to the global punk underground was their debut album, \u003cem\u003eHunger for a Way Out,\u003c\/em\u003e one of the breakout successes in music during 2020’s pandemic lockdown. In 2023, they followed up with the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eGood Living Is Coming for You\u003c\/em\u003e, which made Album of the Year lists for Pitchfork, NPR, Paste, and BBC, just to name a few. The album found guitarist\/producer Caufield Schnug and bassist\/vocalist Lira Mondal testing the limits of their home-recording resourcefulness as freshly minted Kansans – new place, new space. Now, the band is back with a frenetic new offering: \u003cem\u003eYou Say I Romanticize\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded over an 18-month period, largely prepared and periodically interrupted by Schnug’s non-SP production work, \u003cem\u003eYou Say I Romanticize \u003c\/em\u003eis a tribute to the chaos of creation and collaboration under shifting circumstances. For years now, Schnug and Mondal have embedded 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 YSIR demos and carving out an idiosyncratic chamber recording method for the album’s intentional wall-of-sound, the duo brought in touring drummer Spenser Gralla to play the songs like the band would on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s frenzied execution, akin to the group’s renowned live show, prevails most of all in Mondal’s 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 all over the record, notably on the pummeling opener “Shooting Shadows” and the smoldering “Cocoon.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA big theme of \u003cem\u003eYou Say I Romanticize\u003c\/em\u003e is hinted at in its title. Taken from a lyric sung on driving album closer “Write Lightly”—a narrative about the importance of self-expression in writing being scrubbed away by “professional” concerns—many of the characters Mondal fleshed out here are outcasts, marginalized by society and morphed into longing fanatics. The personalities depicted on \u003cem\u003eYou Say I Romanticize\u003c\/em\u003e are often writerly types; as writing is, by and large, an art of obsession. To wit, “Last Man,” by equal turns musically nervous and cathartic, loosely takes after Mary Shelley’s literary work of the same name, The Last Man—a dystopian 19th Century novel written in wake of a cholera outbreak. Similarly, “My Anchoress” resonates in its portrayal of 15th Century author Julian of Norwich—centered around her enduring Revelations of Divine Love (one of the earliest English-written works by a woman), which details her eccentric, sensuous religious visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping Promises have long been progenitors of concept-forward art-punk music that is remarkably immediate and irresistible. For being largely about personalities boxed in by isolation,\u003cem\u003e You Say I Romanticize\u003c\/em\u003e is carried by an outright soaring energy. —Martin Douglas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Shooting Shadows\u003cbr\u003e2 My Friend's An Entomologist\u003cbr\u003e3 Last Man\u003cbr\u003e4 Rapture, or\u003cbr\u003e5 Abduction on Camera\u003cbr\u003e6 My Anchoress\u003cbr\u003e7 Cocoon\u003cbr\u003e8 Accent\u003cbr\u003e9 Does He Want to Be the Weatherman?\u003cbr\u003e10 Write Lightly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Pop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48924472246446,"sku":"098787147704","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/6118\/0334\/files\/sweeping-promises-you-say-i-romanticize-cover_740x_23840eda-a092-4715-af12-b042db6059ee.webp?v=1787184013","url":"https:\/\/morrowrecords.com\/products\/sweeping-promises-you-say-i-romanticize-ltd-ed-multi-colored-splatter-vinyl-first-pressing-loser-edition","provider":"Morrow Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}