Album Review: Good Living Is Coming for You by Sweeping Promises

It's a story told often: bands finding their identity using minimal resources, from recording in basements and bathrooms to using single microphone setups, intent on creating a sound out of necessity. Sweeping Promises follows a similar path with their homegrown lo-fi, which teeters between deliberate and spontaneous, packing a hook-filled mix of exuberant anthems that feel bigger than they are. Their recording aesthetic doesn't even obscure what might initially seem like deficiencies; it's not like they raise the fuzz either, and that grainier filter ends up resonating in a good, if slightly uncomfortable, way.

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Photo by Shawn Brackhill Sweeping Promises is all sharp angles. The two-person band met in Arkansas, recorded blistering Hunger for a Way Out in a Boston concrete bunker, left town first for Austin then Lawrence, Kansas and now delivers its jittery, minimalist second album via the combined networks of punk boutique Feel It (in America) and gargantuan Sub Pop (the rest of the world). The debut clattered and banged with febrile strength, the taut, trilling vocals of bass player Lira Mondal the only element of softness in a bracing architecture.

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