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Sweeping Promises
Country: USA
Genre: Rock
Styles: Post-Punk, New Wave, Lo-Fi, Diy
Next Release
LP Good Living Is Coming For You on June 30, 2023
Thirteen years ago, Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal began making music in a small town in Arkansas. Over the subsequent decade, having relocated to Boston, MA in 2012, the duo became serial band-starters on the East Coast underground. Their many DIY projects and releases established their thrifty and disciplined songwriting practice, known by few.
Sweeping Promises, their latest project, was born in a disused and reverberant concrete laboratory in Cambridge, MA. Tracked with a self-devised “single-mic technique” and mixed in mono, the band completed their debut Hunger for a Way Out just in time to enter quarantine. With only a single basement show under their belt, the band received an unexpectedly wide reception, firstly in online punk circles, and eventually stretching beyond. The band owes their circulation to the expert coordination of Sam Richardson, label head of Virginia’s Feel It Records.
Sam describes the release: “Angular guitars and sharp synth notes float atop a raw rhythm section, while Lira Mondal's effervescent vocals truly define Sweeping Promises' sound. There's something simple yet otherworldly about these tracks - you have the DIY prowess of Kleenex/LiLiPUT and Girls at Our Best!, a brooding new wave-y minimal synth sound woven in, and an undeniable pop-leaning appeal captured in vibrant monaural glory.”
Sweeping Promises is currently headquartered in Austin, TX after fleeing Boston in Covid-time.
Source [Spotify]Releases
Single
Eraser
release on May 02, 2023
via Sub Pop Records
Single
Pain Without a Touch
release on November 17, 2021
via Sub Pop Records
LP
Hunger for a Way Out
release on August 14, 2020
via Feel It Records
