Letting Up Despite Great Faults
ABOUT
Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American indie dreampop band from Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX. Making their mark with their acclaimed debut album (self-titled 2009) and Untogether (2012), they carved out a small corner of the dreampop world with their take on electronic shoegaze and indiepop jangle. After taking a hiatus which songwriter Mike Lee hails as their time to "become real adults," they came back with IV (2022) and a new album Reveries (2024) that pushes forward and further like never before, exploring new sounds and structure with a mature patience and confidence emblematic of "real adults."
Lee grew up in L.A. suburbia deeply inspired by 90's music. After graduating UCLA with an economics degree, he of course decided to start a band, but not like his garage band in high school...it had to include sampling, computer production, and analog synths. Quickly finding Kent Zambrana on bass, they started to shape their vision of bedroom dreampop. Fast forward to adulthood, Lee has attained a mastery at fitting complex layers of drum patterns, guitar riffs, and poppy melodies in a seamless menagerie. Now inspired by vastly different genres from drum 'n' bass to post-punk to K-pop, their version of dreampop has become larger and simultaneously very refined. Meticulously mixed by the amazing Melina Duterte (Jay Som), the new album Reveries yet again shows Lee wearing it all on his sleeve.
Lee grew up in L.A. suburbia deeply inspired by 90's music. After graduating UCLA with an economics degree, he of course decided to start a band, but not like his garage band in high school...it had to include sampling, computer production, and analog synths. Quickly finding Kent Zambrana on bass, they started to shape their vision of bedroom dreampop. Fast forward to adulthood, Lee has attained a mastery at fitting complex layers of drum patterns, guitar riffs, and poppy melodies in a seamless menagerie. Now inspired by vastly different genres from drum 'n' bass to post-punk to K-pop, their version of dreampop has become larger and simultaneously very refined. Meticulously mixed by the amazing Melina Duterte (Jay Som), the new album Reveries yet again shows Lee wearing it all on his sleeve.
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