Sweeping Promises’ “Cocoon” Has Been a Live Staple for Years — Now It’s Finally on Record

“Cocoon” has a history. Sweeping Promises originally wrote it to extend their live set when they only had ten songs from their debut — and it became a staple, going through several studio reinventions before Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal figured out the right version: disarming, dead-simple, built for the “live sound” mentality of You Say I Romanticize. The video, co-produced by Shawn Brackbill and the band, intercuts live footage from the Kansas community with the image of a cocoon that slowly envelops Mondal entirely.

The track follows album opener “Shooting Shadows” as the second preview of You Say I Romanticize, out August 14 on Sub Pop. Recorded over 18 months at the duo’s combination tour house and studio in Lawrence, KS, the album was built with an idiosyncratic chamber-recording method aimed at a deliberate wall-of-sound, then handed to touring drummer Spenser Gralla to play the songs exactly as the band would on stage. It is their heaviest and most frenzied record to date.

The North American headline tour runs September through November, including a newly announced hometown show in Lawrence. Pre-order the album below — Loser Edition on Black and Yellow Confetti vinyl (NA) or Magenta (UK/EU).

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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”