Los Angeles native Michael Lee’s brainchild, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, is disproving its name, and has been since the band got its start in 2006. In the five years that Lee has been producing shoegaze-y, electro-pop, (á la the Radio Dept.) he has released an EP entitled Movement, which featured a track, “Disasters Are OK,” on a little show called One Tree Hill, and a self-titled LP that was praised by the likes of Pitchfork and Rolling Stone (not too shabby, if you ask me).
Riding on the coattails of a successful debut, the indie outfit has been touring the world, and upon returning home from Japan, announced a second EP, Paper Crush, which is set for an August 2 release on Old Flame Records. Until then, Lee and company were nice enough to give us a sneak peek track, “Teenage Tide,” available here (http://soundcloud.com/lettingup/letting-up-despite-great-2/s-LOqfm). -Katrina Nattress