A Promise (Colored Vinyl, Reissue)Vinyl LP pressing. A Promise is the second studio album by experimental band Xiu Xiu, released in February 2003. The album includes a stripped down cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car", of which Stewart said "That song really, very, very, very directly shaped how I wanted to write lyrics or what I wanted songs to be about I wanted them to turn out in so far as the song very specifically narrates some particular horrible things that happen to somebody