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, evolving through several “metamorphoses” before arriving at its final form. It was worth the wait.
Built around the stripped-back, wiry energy that Sweeping Promises do so well, ‘Cocoon’ sounds simultaneously urgent and effortless. Lira Mondal’s voice remains one of the band’s greatest strengths: cool one moment, ferocious the next, always sounding as though she’s holding something just slightly dangerous in reserve.
The band head out on a major North American tour later this year, including dates in Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Nashville.