Sweeping Promises Share New Song "Cocoon": Listen

Sweeping Promises’ ‘Cocoon’ completes its metamorphosis

Kansas post-punk duo Sweeping Promises release new single ‘Cocoon’, the second track to be shared from their forthcoming third album You Say I Romanticize, slated for 14 August via Sub Pop. According to the band, ‘Cocoon’ has been knocking around in one form or another for years. “We wrote ‘Cocoon’ years ago to extend our live set back when we only knew the ten songs from our first album,” they explain. Since then it has become a live favourite,…

Sweeping Promises Share New Song "Cocoon": Listen

There’s a surfeit of post-punk bands these days; it can be hard to stand out. That’s not a problem for Sweeping Promises, though. The first You Say I Romanticize single “Shooting Shadows” was a memorable banger, and its followup “Cocoon” is even better. “We wrote ‘Cocoon’ years ago to extend our live set back when…

🎧 Approved: Sweeping Promises

Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug met at college in Arkansas in 2008 and have been starting bands together ever since; by their own count, at least half a dozen before this one. Sweeping Promises is the one that stuck: angular post-punk built on a self-devised single-mic recording technique, Mondal’s classically trained voice bouncing off compact basslines and chipper analogue synths. They’re now based in a house in Lawrence, Kansas, that doubles …