Austin-based shoegaze/dreampop greats Letting Up Despite Great Faults share " She Spins," their third single off their upcoming album, IV, due out March 4th. "She Spins," a jangly, swirling track backed by catchy drums and electric guitar riffs, is laden with introspective and vulnerable lyrics, as vocalist/guitarist Mike Lee questions the insecurity felt in a relationship. The last single before their long-awaited comeback album is released, "She Spins" offers a perfect encapsulation of the band today, returning to music with lyric-forward, refined, and shimmering tracks that reflects their growth, both as a band and as people. "She Spins" is a song about that subtle jealousy you get when someone gives something to another in a way they've never given to you, or maybe something you've never seen them do that completely surprises you because you thought you knew everything about this person. But it's feeling that and then realizing it's sort of your fault for not realizing that or welcoming a space for that person to open up in that way and trying to figure out if you change for that person or you let that person have that space because that might be better for them.
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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