You Say I Romanticize

Sweeping Promises — 2026

“This is the most intense, joyous, and purposeful Sweeping Promises has sounded in their career.”

If you’ve never heard Sweeping Promises’ 2023 sophomore release, Good Living Is Coming For You, first, stop reading this right now and take care of that—come back after listening, of course. Second, move right into You Say I Romanticize because the highs and good times keep rolling, I assure you.

I feel like most of the songs on You Say I Romanticize have an analog to their previous album. Now, saying that, you might see that as a negative, but this is what I wanted from the band. The lo-fi aesthetic didn’t hold them back, but the elevated, in-your-face live production makes tracks that much more exciting as they leap out of the headphones.

Another knock you might hear is that the band needs to evolve. And sure, I already admitted a lot of these songs have a clear precedent in the catalog, so you could argue Sweeping Promises has been making the same record since their debut. But this is the most intense, joyous, and purposeful they have ever sounded. Sometimes a band just lands in the right place at the right time, and this album is proof of it.