WL//WH Weekly Shoegaze // Dreampop // Psychedelic // Indie Tips

• Brooklyn, NYC based shoegaze /dream pop band Vivienne Eastwood “Demise” single
  

Although no strangers to long breaks, exactly 5 years since their sophomore EP, the Brooklyn-based band Vivienne Eastwood returns in a seemingly bittersweet ’emo’ mode with a new gauzy intimate single to cocoon the listener’s ears while swaying through shimmery guitar strums and glistening ripples, left glittering and trembling around a soft and agonizing, plaintive vocal delivery.

• Spencer, Iowa alt-rock /fuzz /shoegaze band PURPLISH “Move mountains” single
  

Hazy and atmospheric emotive Shoegaze from Iowa, the new single “Move mountains”, albeit a further one has just been dropped, meanders and stumbles with gentle yet piercing vocals that heartfeltly glide through an enveloping and fuzz-laden sprawl of guitar distortion, enthralled by the beauty and mysticism of enduring faith. 

• Indianapolis, Indiana five-piece noise pop /psychedelic rock band Living Dream “Lift a Feather” from “Absolute Devotion” EP 12″ [Inscrutable Records]

Perfumed with 60s West Coast organic lysergic flavours, the song stomps its sizzling strummed way on a squiggly spiralling of glittery electric guitar melodies, plinking with increasing sharp obsessive and pinpoint intensity over deep spoken words, swinging into a high dreamy chorus, while comforting another not to worry, cause “You don’t have to lift a feather.”

• Los Angeles-based ambient /instrumental /orchestral collage music project of Bergen, Norway-born singer-songwriter, Sondre Lerche “Showtime 2​.​1” from the upcoming EP “Sea Of Sighs”
  
• Tokyo, Japan ambient chamber folk musician, singer and composer, Ichiko Aoba “FLAG” from upcoming LP “Luminescent Creatures”
  
• Manchester, UK based folktronica /folk pop husband and wife duo Anthony Braithwaite & Suzy Mangion (George, Ghostwriter, Arbol, Piano Magic), aka The Winter Journey “Words First” off “Graceful Consolations” first new album in over 15 years
  
• Portland, Maine psych /folk-rock /experimental “Handmade Electronic Music” project of Colleen Kinsella & Caleb Mulkerin, Big Blood “Color of The Moment” from “Electric Voyeur” LP [Dontrustheruin]
• Glasgow, UK based r&b /art-pop /folk /electronic-indie-pop artist Seweryna Dudzińska, aka Sev Ka “Birds” single
  
• Bath, UK psych /folk /baroque /chamber pop artist and producer Alex Pester “Billy Liar” from the album “Bedroom Songs” [Stripy Jumper Records]
• Glasgow, UK indie pop /folk musician, singer, composer and Madrigirls and Butcher Boy member (as well as collaborator of The Color Waves, The Just Joans, and Featherfin), Alison Eales – “Through Hoops (The Leaf Library remix)” off “Through Hoops” EP [Fika Recordings]
• San Francisco indie /dream pop /slowcore collective led by singer-guitarist Karina Gill, aka Cindy “Party at the Atelier” from the cassette EP 2Saw It All Demos by Cindy” collection of demos [Paisley Shirt Records]
• Oxnard, CA chicano /dream-pop /indie pop group formed in 2002, Maria “I Will Remember You (Remembered)” from “ Sarah In The Rain” EP [YAY! Records]
• Montreal, Quebec lo-fi indie pop collaboration, Chloé Jara-Buto & Stoylov “Rires sous le sapin” from “Biscuit” EP
  
• St Louis‘ lo-fi indie pop outfit Soup Activists – “Black and White Television Screens” from V/A “Star Charms” cassette compilation [Inscrutable Records]
• Kalmar, Sweden indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze /dream pop band LOOM “Proximity (radio edit)” single
  
• Leicester, UK gaze dream pop band dayflower “Sweet Georgia Gazes” (original demo)
  
• Portland, Maine dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock singer-songwriter Darksoft – “The Details” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Marietta, Georgia jangle pop /shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Lauren Grace, aka Copperplate “Outnumbered” off the upcoming album “Ars Poetica”
  
• Chicago indie /synthpop /dream pop solo project COOL HEAT “Back from the Grave” (Chromatics cover, 2012)
  
• San Francisco-based indie rock /psych /dream pop /shoegaze project Cold Morning Colors “Falling Up” single
  
• Gold Coast, Australia shoegaze /dream-pop project DREAM POP “Dream Scape” single
  
• Depok, Indonesia dream pop /indiepop band led by Razif Mudarsyah Haragi, aka THE SWEETEST TOUCH “Reminiscence” title trck of the new EP “Reminiscence” [Guerrilla Records]
• California-based lo-fi /indie /dream pop duo Moodlighting “Anna” single
  
• Cibinong, Indonesia twee /indie jangle pop solo project of Adicumi Sastroputro, H! “Fly With Them” from “Specious pop” EP
  
• Kent, UK-based Northern Soul/Mod /Garage/Power Pop /Psychedelic Pop new project formed by Papernut Cambridge‘s Ian Button (formerly guitarist with Death In Vegas, Thrashing Doves) and Allan Crockford (of The Galileo 7, The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet, The Solar Flares etc), The Penrose Web “Geraldine” from “It’s​.​.​.​.​The Penrose Web” 4-track EP 7″ [A Fool’s Paradise / Gare du Nord Records]
• Leicester, UK indie guitar pop side project of Shopfires‘ Neil Hill, NEUCLOUDS “You Made A Miscalculation” single
  
• Clare, Australia jangle indie pop band Treechangers “Midnight Science​-​Fiction Feature!” single
  
• Indonesian noise indie pop one-man band led by Eko Sutrisno, The Pale Love Unseen – “A Dance With Hope” from the cassette EP “Fate” [shiny happy records]
• Indianapolis lo-fi indie pop band Good Flying Birds “Every day is another” from the cassette album “Good Flying Birds: Tallulah’s Tape” collection of home demos (2021–2024) [Rotten Apple]
• UK DIY twee indie pop trio The Happy Somethings “You’ll Make It Through” from “Felt” EP
  
• Newport, UK new wave /indie pop solo project of Rob Morgan, aka Armstrong “Somewhere Out There” 2-track single
  
• The Wirral, UK indie rock /shoegaze /indie pop band West Coast Music Club “1989” from “1989” EP
  
• Ottawa, Canada synth-pop /dream /jangle /psych-pop /indie pop project SKYTONE “Honey Bear” single
  
• Swedish indie /dream pop /synthpop trio (Niklas Angergård, Kristina Borg and Mikael Matsson), Red Sleeping Beauty “Always – Late Nights Version” off of the 3-track “Late Nights” EP [Matinée Recordings]
• South-West Wales veteran indie pop band from Llanelli formed in 1985, THE HEPBURNS “Thing Of Joy” from the new album “Thing Of Joy”
  
• Swansea, UK jangle /indie pop collaboration featuring musicians from the ’90s Sarah Records band the Sweetest Ache, Summerhouse “aye aye” single
  
• Norwegian–German pop duo of Jørn O. Åleskjær (known for his work with The Loch Ness Mouse and Monobird, Swart Vredag) and Sebastian Voss (The Fisherman and his Soul, Nah…, Lancaster), aka Herr Wade “Lotto (6 aus 50)” 3-track single “Lotto” from the forthcoming album “This is Softcore” [Bureau Platiruma!!!]
• Athens, Greece-based US DIY lo-fi /indie rock /twee art-pop duo of Rob Beloved and Eleni Binge, Beloved Binge “Epipen” single
  
• UK-based acoustic /power pop /jangle /psych /glam rock /indie pop singer-songwriter Paul ‘Trip’ Ryan aka SUPER 8 “RESOLUTION (Happy New Year)” single
  
• Perù lo-fi /shoegaze /indie rock band Vida en Marte “Fiesta en la Playa” single
  
• US dreampop /shoegaze /indie noise pop solo project Jean Andonne “Then hurt me for this is also pleasure” off “Belie its Nature” EP
  
• Edmonton, Alberta indie rock band No Museums “When I Was So High” from “The Lighter Darker Age / Lowways” CD collection of the latest two albums released in 2023/2024 [Subjangle]
• Chicago, IL power pop/jangle /indie rock musician and composer Kai Slater, aka Sharp Pins “Circle all the Dots” from the upcoming vinyl 12″ edition of the LP “Radio DDR” [perennialdeath]
• Detroit‘s indie rock /C86 /power pop band led by Krystian Quint (The Stools, Expest, etc), Krystian Quint & The Quitters “Outer Drive” off the cassette debut LP “Something Like That” [Quality Time Records]
• Atlanta, Georgia indie rock /post-punk /rock and roll band Ultra Lights “It’s Your Funeral” from “It’s Your Funeral b​/​w People On The Planet” 7″ single [Chunklet Industries]
• Los Angeles 4-piece power /psych /guitar pop band led by Sharif Dumani featuring Josh Mancell (Moon Upstairs, Cell\Borg), Happy Tsugawa-Banta (Lassie Foundation, Ray Barbee), and Mark Sogomian (Moon Upstairs), Exploding Flowers “Crowded Streets” the lead single from the upcoming third LP “Watermelon​/​Peacock” [Meritorio Records]
• Saxon, Switzerland post-punk / jangle-rock /shoegaze /dream-pop solo project Dynamo Stairs “Empty In The Shade” from the EP “Not For Free”
  
• Indonesia homemade shoegaze project Bilinda’s Tambourine “Died in a sad way” from ♡​♡​♡​♡​♡ single [forfun.cookies]
• Hastings, UK shoegaze /dreampop band Longingsky “Kiss Of Snow feat. Krissy Vanderwoude” single [Shore Dive Records]
• London-based shoegaze /dream pop /doom pop duo Rain Cloud Nine “Bonfires” single
  
• Columbus, Ohio dream pop /shoegaze instrumental solo project SingingGum “Shimmer” from “Daydreaming” EP
  
• Perth, Australia dream pop /shoegaze solo project of Steve Matzkov, aka Seven Hour Days “Dream” single
  
• Japanese dream pop /shoegaze unit Cosmicdust “Melancholic Daydream” from the upcoming cassette/CDr “Melancholy” LP
  
• Montreal, Quebec 3-piece Dream Pop /Shoegaze band Fleeting Colours “Stay” single
  
• Vancouver BC-based, Argentine–British dreampop /shoegaze trio Bloom Effect “Armour” from “Portents” EP CD [Shore Dive Records]
• Perth, Australia dream pop /shoegaze solo project Glasscastle “Where did you last see your memory?” single
  
• Paris-based, South Korean dream pop /shoegaze project Syupeo Jenjang “Future Prison” from upcoming “Exit Musik” EP
  
• Philadelphia, PA post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Angel Ocana, aka Forest Circles “Aurora” single
  
• Laramie, Wyoming dream pop /shoegaze /peaveygaze band Ampule “Earth all along” from the split EP “Decay Chain” by Ampule & Linus
  
• Modesto, CA shoegaze punk band led by Nick Bassett. WHIRR “Collect Sadness” from the album “Raw Blue”
  
• Moscow-based shoegaze /dream pop trio LIFE ON VENUS “Gravity” off the new EP “Negatives”
  
• Brisbane, Australia ambient /dream pop /shoegaze band Relay Tapes “Midnight Moth” from “Butterfly Rhythm” EP
  
• Fano, Italy shoegaze /dream pop solo project of Michele Cingolani, Waving Blue “Break my heart” single
  
• Chattanooga, Tennessee bedroom /post-hardcore /indie rock /shoegaze solo project, Blue Heron, Holy Ghost “Step Back” from forthcoming LP “Shining Through”
  
• Philadelphia, PA post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Angel Ocana, aka Forest Circles “Aurora” single
  
• Thailand Indie Rock /Emo /Shoegaze band Electra Complex “Sorry Not Sorry” from the EP “Young Zombies”
  
• Indonesian alt-rock /shoegaze band Sunlotus “Icarus Wings” from “Selected Bonus Tracks from This Old House” EP [Outta Sight Records]
• Wattignies, France alternative /shoegaze solo project, Jōetsu Shore “FTG” from the new album “Dreams & Wrecks”
  
• Philadelphia shoegaze /space /psychedelic /indie rock band Stellarscope “As I Lay Dying” from the upcoming “All That Remains” EP [Patetico Recordings]
• St. Petersburg, FL surf /psych /shoegaze /dream-pop solo project of guitarist-songwriter Craig Pethe, aka The Cataract Pools “I Forgave Myself Today” single
  
• UK ambient /library /abstract /leftfield /electronic pop /krautrock collective started in the early 80s, The Music Liberation Front Sweden “And Another Stories” from the cassette album “Le Beat Route” [Static Disc]
• San Francisco-based library music /hip-hop /jazz /krautrock /psychedelic /electronica multi-instrumentalist, Jack Erin Brown “Code Grey” from the upcoming LP “Door 154” [Nudie Records / Tunnel Records]
• Italian ambient /psychedelic pop instrumental 3-piece band Us Random Calculator “9​:​00 AM” from “Saturday” EP [We Were Never Being Boring Collective]