Kevin Bronson on October 4th, 2012

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Few bands carry the Sarah Records torch so proudly as Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the L.A.-bred and now-Austin-based quartet that originally was the bedroom project of Mike Lee. Letting Up’s second album “Untogether” (out next Tuesday) rolls in like a spring breeze, sighing vocals over ’80s-style synths and jangling, fuzzed-out guitars. It’s an aesthetic recently embraced by the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and several artists on Slumberland Records, and Letting Up twinkles with the best of them. Twee-pop kids could hardly find a better soundtrack to being lovelorn.

||| Stream: “Bulletproof Girl”

||| Previously: “Visions;” “Standing Still;” “Sophia in Gold,” “Teenage Tide.”