Sweeping Promises return with You Say I Romanticize, a third album that builds on the duo’s sharp-edged post-punk while pushing its themes into darker, more obsessive territory. Following the acclaim of Hunger for a Way Out and Good Living is Coming for You, bassist/vocalist Lira Mondal and guitarist Caufield Schnug expand their focus to characters living on society’s margins, tracing the ways isolation and exclusion can harden into fixation. To capture the energy of their live shows, the band brought drummer Spenser Gralla into the recording process, giving these songs a more immediate, full-bodied force. That urgency runs through Mondal’s intense vocal performances and the record’s restless momentum. While rooted in the same community spirit and outsider ethos that has defined Sweeping Promises, You Say I Romanticize examines the more complicated corners of alienation and belonging.