Fake History

{{Music ratings

| MC = 76/100{{cite web|title= Fake History Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More| work = Metacritic| publisher = CBS Interactive| url = http://www.metacritic.com/music/fake-history| accessdate = February 15, 2011}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web| last = Heaney| first = Gregory| author-link = | title = Fake History – Review | work = AllMusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/fake-history-r2142486/review | accessdate = April 12, 2011}}

| rev2 = Alternative Press

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web | last = Pearlman | first = Mischa | author-link = | title = Reviews – Fake History | publisher = Alternative Press | year = 2011 | url = http://www.altpress.com/reviews/entry/letlive_-_fake_history/?amp| doi = | accessdate = April 12, 2011}}

| rev3 = BBC Music

| rev3Score = (very positive){{cite web|author=|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/p3gw |title=Music - Review of letlive. - Fake History |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=2012-02-15}}

| rev4 = Blare Magazine

| rev4Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web| last = Beresford| first = Leah| author-link = | title = REVIEW: letlive. – "Fake History"| work = Blare Magazine| publisher = | date = May 22, 2011| url = http://blaremagazine.com/2011/05/22/review-letlive-fake-history/| doi = | accessdate = May 22, 2011}}

| rev5 = PopMatters

| rev5Score = {{Rating|9|10}}{{cite web| author= Chris Colgan| title = Letlive: Fake History < PopMatters | publisher = PopMatters| date = April 11, 2011| url = http://www.rocksound.tv/reviews/article/letlive-fake-history| doi = | accessdate = April 12, 2011}}

| rev6 = Rock Sound

| rev6Score = {{Rating|9|10}}{{cite web| last = Newbound | first = Tim | author-link = | title = letlive. – Fake History Album review | publisher = | date = April 11, 2011| url = http://www.rocksound.tv/reviews/article/letlive-fake-history| doi = | accessdate = April 12, 2011}}

| rev7 = Sputnikmusic

| rev7Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite web | last = Pond | first = Jared | author-link = | title = Fake History (album review) | publisher = Sputnikmusic | date = August 20, 2010 | url = https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/38625/Letlive-Fake-History/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = April 3, 2011}}

| rev8 = Thrash Hits

| rev8Score = {{Rating|4|6}}{{cite web| last = Doyle | first = Tom | author-link = | title = Album: letlive. – Fake History | publisher = Thrash Hits| date = April 6, 2011| url = http://www.thrashhits.com/2011/04/album-letlive-fake-history/| doi = | accessdate = April 6, 2011}}

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Fake History received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 8 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Sputnikmusic gave Fake History a 4.5 out of 5 or "superb" rating, calling it "a post-hardcore album fit for many of 2010's best-of lists". Rock Sound magazine called it "a frenetic, hugely entertaining and inventive genre mash-up". Thrash Hits gave the album a 4 out of 6 rating, calling it "a good album but it smacks of a band struggling hard to fit their entire repertoire into one record".

In 2012, British publication Rock Sound added letlive.'s album Fake History into their 101 Modern Classics placed at number 51. They considered the album more of a classic than Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf and Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning. Stating that "The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, ‘Fake History’ is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance. Truly, genuinely thrilling."{{cite web|url = http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/rock-sounds-101-modern-classics-74-50 | title = Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics: 74 – 50 | work = Rock Sound | publisher = Freeway Press Inc | date = June 27, 2012 | accessdate = July 10, 2012 | quote = Few albums encapsulate the idea of a modern classic quite as perfectly as this one. The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, ‘Fake History’ is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance. Truly, genuinely thrilling.}}

{{track listing

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| total_length = {{Duration|m=44|s=58}}

| all_writing = letlive

| title1 = Le Prologue

| length1 = 1:45

| title2 = The Sick, Sick, 6.8 Billion

| length2 = 3:12

| title3 = Renegade 86'

| length3 = 3:35

| title4 = Enemies [Enemigos]

| length4 = 4:56

| title5 = Casino Columbus

| length5 = 3:58

| title6 = Muther

| note6 = feat. Chelsea Warlick

| length6 = 5:40

| title7 = Homeless Jazz

| length7 = 3:41

| title8 = We, the Pros of Con

| length8 = 4:13

| title9 = H. Ledger

| length9 = 3:36

| title10 = Over Being Under

| length10 = 3:37

| title11 = Day 54

| length11 = 6:45

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{{Track listing

| headline = Re-release bonus tracks

| total_length = {{Duration|m=56|s=22}}

| title12 = Hollywood, and She Did

| length12 = 4:00

| title13 = Lemon Party

| length13 = 3:59

| title14 = This Mime [A Sex Symbol]

| length14 = 3:25

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• Jason Aalon Alexander Butler – lead vocals
• Ryan Jay Johnson – bass guitar
• Jean Francisco Nascimento – guitar, keyboards
• Jeff Sahyoun – guitar, backing vocals
• Anthony Rivera – drums, percussion

;Production

• Kit Walters – engineer, producer

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| title = Band of the Week: Exclusive: Letlive 'Fake History'

| publisher = Rock Sound

| date = April 4, 2011

| url = http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/exclusive-letlive-fake-history-album-stream-and-track-by-track

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| accessdate = April 6, 2011}}

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