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Punk duo Sweeping Promises have announced their third album, You Say I Romanticize, which will be out August 14 via Sub Pop. Guitarist Caufield Schnug and bassist/vocalist Lira Mondal recorded the ...

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 ...

Music For Iran is a series of benefit compilations set up by Holiday Ghosts following the 2022 Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran. They write: “The aim is to raise awareness for the struggles of ...

Sweeping Promises was born in a disused and reverberant concrete laboratory in Cambridge, MA. Tracked with a self-devised “single-mic technique” and mixed in mono, serial band-starters Lira Mondal and ...

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