Letting Up Despite Great Faults
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Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an Indie
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

/electronic
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 music act founded by Los Angeles native Michael Lee. Pitchfork has dubbed them "shoegaze-y indie pop." Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

 and Canada's Exclaim!
Exclaim!
Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists...

 have compared them to Postal Service, while the consensus in the blogosphere has been more M83
M83 (band)
M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. It is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France...

 and The Radio Dept.
The Radio Dept.
The Radio Dept. is a dream pop band from Lund, Sweden signed to Labrador Records.-History:The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called "Radioavdelningen"...

 The name stems from Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of vocalist/rhythm guitarist Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace , which formed in New York City in 1993....

's song "Loved Despite of Great Faults." Their first release was in 2006 called Movement, which featured a track, "Disasters Are Okay," on the television show One Tree Hill.
All songs are written by Lee.

Discography

  • Movement (EP) (August 2006)
  • Letting Up Despite Great Faults (October 2009)
  • Paper Crush (EP) (August 2, 2011 US / October 24, 2011 UK & Europe)

Remixes

  • Silver Swans - "Secrets" (2010)
  • Montauk - "Holiday" (2010)
  • MillionYoung - "Cynthia" (2010)
  • Tape Deck Mountain - "On My Honor" (2009)
  • Passion Pit
    Passion Pit
    Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which formed in 2007, consists of Michael Angelakos , Ian Hultquist , Ayad Al Adhamy , Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer...

     – "Little Secrets" (2009)

Film and TV

  • "Disasters Are Okay" in One Tree Hill
    One Tree Hill (TV series)
    One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...

    s episode Ashes of Dreams Let You Die (season 4, episode 19)

External links

  • Official Website
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