"Can't you see the ice beneath starts to bend when you condescend the way I try..."
Dipping into the dreamy fertile movements of "She Spins" by Austin shoegaze / dreampop stalwarts "Letting Up Despite Great Faults" and a lot of thoughts and feelings flood in almost immediately. There is a decidedly tender somber core to Mike Lee's and Annah Fisette's vocal aesthetic. The blistering bass (Kent Zambrana) and drums (Daniel Schmidt) push, colored by Mike and Annah's percolating guitar work, feels blissfully rooted in post punk and indie movements circa 1988 to 1995. As nostalgic synths dance I am feeling a beautiful textured and embracing sound. Sort of like an amalgam of The Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure, the poetry and the sonic urgency like trying to outrun the pains and pressure of youth itself feels so damn moving.
Dipping into the dreamy fertile movements of "She Spins" by Austin shoegaze / dreampop stalwarts "Letting Up Despite Great Faults" and a lot of thoughts and feelings flood in almost immediately. There is a decidedly tender somber core to Mike Lee's and Annah Fisette's vocal aesthetic. The blistering bass (Kent Zambrana) and drums (Daniel Schmidt) push, colored by Mike and Annah's percolating guitar work, feels blissfully rooted in post punk and indie movements circa 1988 to 1995. As nostalgic synths dance I am feeling a beautiful textured and embracing sound. Sort of like an amalgam of The Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure, the poetry and the sonic urgency like trying to outrun the pains and pressure of youth itself feels so damn moving.
"She Spins" is from the group's first album release in 8 years "IV" scheduled to drop March 4th.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/lettingup
https://twitter.com/lettingup
https://www.instagram.com/lettingup/
https://www.youtube.com/lettingup
https://soundcloud.com/lettingup
https://lettingup.bandcamp.com/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/letting-up-despite-great-faults/193308817
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xTjrY68V2oc6mOUKXBvv8
It's the fourth single off of their long awaited return to music album, IV, out March 4th. Austin-based shoegaze/dreampop group Letting Up Despite Great Faults — Mike Lee (vocals, guitar), Kent Zambrana (bass), Annah Fisette (vocals, guitar), Daniel Schmidt (drums) — return a changed group. The band's forthcoming full-length IV is the band's first album in eight years and investigates personal narratives around growth, loss, regret, and renewal. Sonically, the group's sound also explores a more aggressive, forward-leaning approach, wherein Lee elected to break the shoegaze/indiepop hermetic shield of synths and filtering. For IV, Lee realized the agency of his voice, thrusting it forward, where it was once "an instrument" in Letting Up's gauzy yet layered expanse of sound. The guitar-driven album represents life's inquiries into often stark revelations concerning mortality and love, as Lee notes, "why you love, how long you love."
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/lettingup
https://twitter.com/lettingup
https://www.instagram.com/lettingup/
https://www.youtube.com/lettingup
https://soundcloud.com/lettingup
https://lettingup.bandcamp.com/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/letting-up-despite-great-faults/193308817
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xTjrY68V2oc6mOUKXBvv8
It's the fourth single off of their long awaited return to music album, IV, out March 4th. Austin-based shoegaze/dreampop group Letting Up Despite Great Faults — Mike Lee (vocals, guitar), Kent Zambrana (bass), Annah Fisette (vocals, guitar), Daniel Schmidt (drums) — return a changed group. The band's forthcoming full-length IV is the band's first album in eight years and investigates personal narratives around growth, loss, regret, and renewal. Sonically, the group's sound also explores a more aggressive, forward-leaning approach, wherein Lee elected to break the shoegaze/indiepop hermetic shield of synths and filtering. For IV, Lee realized the agency of his voice, thrusting it forward, where it was once "an instrument" in Letting Up's gauzy yet layered expanse of sound. The guitar-driven album represents life's inquiries into often stark revelations concerning mortality and love, as Lee notes, "why you love, how long you love."
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Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Shoegaze, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Austin, Texas, new album release, "She Spins", post punk, nostalgic, nuwave, "IV" Album, 80's /90's indie tones,
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