Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American indie dreampop band from Los Angeles, CA & Austin, TX. Making their mark with their acclaimed debut (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, he started a band, but not like his garage band in high school...it included sampling, computer production, & synths. Finding Kent Zambrana on bass, they started to shape their vision of dreampop. Annah Fisette (vocals, gt) & Daniel Schmidt (drums) joined as Lee refined fitting complex layers of drum patterns, guitar riffs, & poppy melodies in a seamless menagerie. Meticulously mixed by Melina Duterte (Jay Som), the new album Reveries yet again shows Lee wearing it all on his sleeve