Letdown. w/ Blame My Youth, YOUTHYEAR + LUCHIANO

Letdown. is ready to embrace the positive. The Texas-born, Nashville-based rocker, singer, and multi-instrumentalist has tackled a slew of personal demons—many of which turned up on his catharsis-packed debut EP, 2023’s Crying In The Shower—in order to come out on the other side, stronger than ever. 

 

“I think I’m at the end of writing about my problems,” Coddington muses. “I’ve been putting myself through emotional music therapy for three years now, and it’s working. I’m finally looking back and laughing for the first time. I consider it the upswing of the depression. I’m about to enter this whole new phase in my life. Everything feels new again for the first time.”

 

Ever since he first began releasing music in 2020, Letdown. (real name Blake Coddington) has poured his soul into crafting soaring rock anthems that vulnerably chronicle his mental health journey and sonically intersect with punk/emo, metal, electronic, pop, and hip-hop. 

 

Posting a series of unguarded videos to TikTok, Letdown. has seen his following grow to more than 675K, plus nearly 1M monthly listeners on Spotify, and more than 100k on Instagram — and that’s not even counting the 200M total streams Coddington’s songs have earned. As he steps into a new era with his debut album, fans will be swept up into a whirlwind of poppy and propulsive beats, guitar-driven compositions, and impassioned choruses.

 

“That’s the greatest part of this,” Coddington says of his more buoyant direction. “We’re all dancing around the studio. It’s the most natural writing I’ve ever done. When I met my producer Carlo, we started working on our first song together, which ended up being ‘Hate Myself.’ We were like, ‘This sounds nothing like any of your other stuff. We don’t know if anybody’s gonna like this. Let’s just see what happens.’ And then we got to the studio and everything happened. I remember looking at him, and I was like, ‘I don’t care who doesn’t like this. This is the most me I’ve ever felt.’”

 

If anything unites Letdown.’s debut album, it’s mixing audible joy with the darkness that haunts his past. “This latest group of songs is my upswing—I’m literally finding the fun and light in the bad things,” he says. “The music I’m writing currently has been a lot more fun than it ever has been, and a lot less depressing. It’s less self-loathing. This is what’s been handed to me—now I’m gonna have to make something awesome.”