Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Fri 18 Dec 2009
Tiny Baby Steps
Come and get lost in the beautiful euphoric tones of Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Their pulsing electronic, indie pop rides on hazy shoegaze guitars, bubbly electro drum beats and dotty keyboard whips, and is laced together by some peaceful enraptured vocals. It’s perhaps unusual to hear a Southern Californian band making such sombre, shadowy music, drawing on nature’s darker, gloomier side, but it’s a perfect excuse to go for an evening walk alone.
The band name paints a rather interesting picture, suggesting a compromise being made between troubled lovers. It’s in fact a reference to the Blonde Redhead song ‘Loved Despite Great Faults’, who the band list as a pivotal influence. There’s definitely a subtle hint of Blonde Redhead’s noisy expressionism in their overall sound, but there’s perhaps a stronger leaning towards bands like The Radio Dept., M83 and A Sunny Day In Glasgow.
Letting Up Despite Great Faults recently released their debut self-titled LP. It was recorded by band member and main songwriter Michael Lee in his home in Los Angeles and was mastered by Jeff Lipton (Magnetic Fields). It’s available now at Insound.
Letting Up Despite Great Faults- Our Younger Noise: MP3
Letting Up Despite Great Faults- The Colours Aren’t You Or Me: MP3
Letting Up Despite Great Faults- Myspace
Posted by Nick Fulton under California, Los Angeles, U.S.A
December 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
What an UNusual “mélange”… I actually had a pair of tracks from them, but you eventually convinced me to get the full record ^^