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

• Southend, UK lo-fi /jangle pop /acoustic folk /indie rock DIY singer-songwriter Fran Carlyon “Ten Years” from the upcoming debut mini-album “Home Truths” [YYZ Records]

The lo-fi ‘folk for ages’ solo music project from Southend-on-Sea, England, teases the upcoming debut mini-LP with the bittersweet and affecting acoustic tune of sparse, intimate and contemplative tones, by allowing the heartfelt depth of the essential to emerge with an organic and stirring strength. Stroked strums and bare plinking arpeggios shimmer and reverberate with profound sentiment and grace, coursed by airy, wistful synth breezes, with peaceful, resigned male vocals, finding the one true love again after ten years of moodily wandering.

• Rotterdam-based Dutch dreampop /grungegaze /shoegaze band Thrilled “Cloak” from upcoming debut EP “Tweede” EP
  

The electrifying first excerpt from the Dutch grungegaze foursome’s debut EP rolls out urgent drums and humming bass lines to unrelentingly fuel a vigorous rush of dense, distorted guitar riffs layered with atmospheric, reverbed fuzzy haze and high-pitched weeping edges, building an emotional-driven and immersive loud surge, that plods, sludgily wallows in, and cathartically overflows with reinvigorating energy alongside anxious, sad vocals turning to anger toward a person who doesn’t want to take a cloak off.

• Manchester, UK bedroom lo-fi dream pop solo project Not For Tears “Seventeen” single
  

A bright colorful, glistening hazy slice of delicate, nostalgic jangly-dream-pop that hazily floats coursing through lively drum patterns and sonorously warm elastic bass pulses, on a lush reflecting, blurred sea of effect-filled, scintillating guitar melodies, reverberating with melancholic sharp vibrancy over introspective, heartfelt vocals, softly pondering about being a kid at seventeen on the inside with the weight of the world on the outside.

• Sydney-based experimental /shoegaze /kraut rock /dream pop /psychedelic duo Fabels “Luister” 1st single from the forthcoming album “Ophera”
  
• North-Eastern Italy dark ambient /ritual /doom /psychedelia /slowcore /neo-folk /devotional /art-rock songwriter, musician and poetess Giulia Parin Zecchin (singer of quartet Bosco Sacro), aka Julinko “Skin Dress” from the fourth album “Naebula” [Maple Death Records / Avantgarde Music]
• San Francisco-based lo-fi /shoegaze /slowcore project of David Diaz (April Magazine guitarist and Black Thumb collaborator), Plastic Candles “You Can’t Stop (Thinking About Her)” from “PLASTIC CADILLAC Rock’n’Rollin” EP
  
• Glasgow-based, Scottish indie folk /shadier pop songsmith and founder of the band De Rosa, M. John Henry “Evelyn” from the collection album “Early Songs, Of Late”, a collection of reworked and newly performed versions of classic songs and unreleased material [Gargleblast Records]
• Glasgow, Scottish indie pop miserabilists fronted by siblings David and Katie Pope, aka The Just Joans “Drinking on a Weeknight” off the new album “Romantic Visions of Scotland” [Fika Recordings]
• San Francisco 60s/70s-inspired folk /psychedelic /progressive rock five-piece (members of The Umbrellas, Healing Potpourri, Almond Joy, Whitney’s Playland, and Blades of Joy), Magic Fig “Goblin” from the debut LP “Valerian Tea” [Exploding In Sound]
• Brest, France experimental /no wave /folk /avant-pop DIY project of Laurène Exposito (EYE) and friend Théo Delaunay (member and producer of Parasite Jazz, panoptique, De Klok & Violent Quand On Aime), aka Diagonale des Yeux “Hills of Love” from the upcoming debut album “Madeleine” [Knekelhuis]
• UK noir-pop/shoegaze/dream pop duo of Dean Garcia (formerly of Curve) & Rose Berlin, SPC ECO “All Left Out” from “Broken” LP
  
• Montreal, Quebec electronic /neo-folk /dark wave /avant pop duo Bibi Club “Washing Machine” 2nd single from the third album”Amaro” [Secret City Records]
• Ontario bedroom /indie folk /dream pop solo project of singer-songwriter Chris Minielly, aka Jaguar Sun “No Turning” from the LP “Daisy” [Born Losers Records]
• Auckland, New Zealand alt country /indie rock recording project of songwriter Peter McCall, aka Fazed on a Pony “Not Even Trying” from the second full-length “Swan” [Meritorio Records]
• Montreal, Quebec via Valencia, Spain bedroom grunge /noise pop solo project (formerly Gally, Prime Junk), Rat Penat “Kijiji” from the cassette album “Over Easy” [Flexidiscos]
• Pamplona, Spain 60s /jangle /indie pop rock band Nuevos Hobbies “Limón y sol” from “Necesito Nuevos Hobbies” EP [Hurrah! Música]
• Sheffield, UK jangle /dream wave /cream pop three-piece Pale Blue Eyes “Signify” from the collection LP “pbe archive vol. 1” (a curated collection of outtakes, alternate versions, and previously unreleased tracks from 2018 to 2025) [Republic of Music]
• Vancouver, WA power pop /indie rock band The New Pornographers “Votive” 1st single from the upcoming album “ The Former Site Of ” [Merge Records]
• Bristol, UK indie noise punk pop solo project from former singer-guitarist of Muncie Girls, Lande Hekt “Lucky Now” title track of the upcoming first LP “Lucky Now” [Tapete Records]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “I Want To Be A Smack Head When I’m Older” the 3rd and final single from the new upcoming album “6 Weeks Holiday, Nowhere To Play” [Salt Mine Records]
• Brighton, UK jangly indie-noise-pop duo Dreamcoaster “Feels Good (Better Than The Last One)” single version [Duck Race Recording Co.]
• Swedish electronic /dream pop duo founded in 1995, CLUB 8 “Echoes Of Our Time” single
  
• Todmorden, UK, Paris-based electronic /synth-pop project of Goa Express singer and guitarist James Clarke, aka C Douglas “Around The Corner” from the upcoming debut EP “75019” [Golden Lion Sounds]
• Wiltshire, UK-based folk /jangle /indie pop husband and wife duo Carl and Kat Mann, aka Shapes Like People “Find Me There”, 3rd single from the upcoming second LP “Under the Rainbow”
  
• Oklahoma City indie bedroom pop /dream pop solo project Ford Chastain “Around and Around” single
  
• Paris-based wave /shoegaze /dream pop /indie rock duo Coward Syndrome – “Venetian Day (feat. Sofia Anastasio & Alexandra Anastasio)” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Indonesia‘s electro pop project of local indie hero Ganesha (of The Silent Love), Casual Conversation “This Is Goodbye” from “Hello Dream” EP [shiny happy records]
• Atlanta, Georgia C-86 /jangle /noise pop project Thin Wrist “Sword Eater Back From The Brink” from the debut 2-track single “121”
  
• Athens, Greece alternative rock /post-punk /garage pop /indie rock four-piece The WaterStriders “Why Sing At All?” second single off the upcoming album “Anodyne”
  
• Nashville, Tennessee alternative /indie rock band Cold Equations “Laws of Motion” single
  
• Tashkent, Uzbekistan alternative indie rock singer-songwriter and producer Władek Sheen “нет меня” single
  
• Bogor, Indonesia shoegaze /indie rock band, Sekuel “Turn Around” from “Runaway Song” EP [Anoa Records]
• Los Angeles dream pop /shoegaze four-piece Draag “Hide Me (Bonus Track)” from “Miracle Drug” EP
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based alternative /noise indie rock /shoegaze duo SMUSH “don’t know why (Norah Jones cover)” from “Standards” EP
  
• Bristol, UK indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop band, Stay Lunar “Here with You” single
  
• Australian jangle /dreampop /shoegaze duo based in Melbourne, Rocket Rules “Sweetest Thing” from “Dearden’s Number” LP [Shore Dive Records]
• Atlanta, Georgia shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop trio Ricochet Star “Air Between Hours” from “Every Moon” EP
  
• Norwich, UK shoegaze /dream pop band Narcolepsy “Luca’s Song” from “Nocturne” EP
  
• Portland, OR 5-piece Indie Rock /Shoegaze band As Above “Upside Down” single
  
• Belfast, NI dream pop /shoegaze band Virgins “Crucible” final single from the upcoming last EP “Light The Space Left Behind”
  
• Hamburg, Germany dream pop /shoegaze trio The First Eloi “Porcelain” single
  
• Australia noise rock /shoegaze five-piece All Sparks Burn Out “Make It Make Sense” from “Make It Make Sense” EP
  
• Scotland‘s noise rock /shoegaze four-piece Sunstinger – “NVR NVR” single
  
• Saint Petersburg, Russia grunge /emogaze /shoegaze band WYYM “Звёзды” from the upcoming “Светлое” EP
  
• Manchester, UK grunge /fuzzy noise-rock /punk trio THE EMPTY PAGE “When We Gonna Run?” single
  
• Boston area shoegaze /space rock /psychedelic rock band of singer, guitarist Margaret Garrett (formerly of Mr. Airplane Man), guitarist, singer Gregg Porter (The Concerns), drummer Kurt Davis (formerly of The Konks), bassist Chris Lohring, aka Daughter of The Vine “Camera” from “Sonic Projection” EP
  
• Berlin-based psychedelic folk /art pop noise project fronted by South African-born musician, Lucy Kruger, aka Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys “Damp” from upcoming LP “Pale Bloom” [Unique Records / The Good Times Co.]
• LA neo-goth /noise rock /art-pop multidisciplinary artist and musician, Marnie Weber “Tiger, Tiger” (1991) from the three-decade (and counting) career compilation album “Returning Home: The Music of Marnie Weber” [Phantom Limb]
• Sydney, Australia psych rock /garage punk 4-piece group Straight Arrows “Middleman” from “Middleman / Do the Sloth” 7inch single [Goodbye Boozy]
• Stockholm 4-piece glam /grunge /indie rock band Clutter “C.L.U.T.T.E.R.” from “C.L.U.T.T.E.R. / Superstar” 7″ single [PNKSLM Recordings]
• Hamilton, Ontario surf /garage /power pop /rock’n’roll solo project by former drummer of Teenage Head, The Killjoys and The Black Halos, Gene Champagne “I Can’t Pretend” (The Barracudas cover, 1981) single [Rum Bar Records]
• Detroit jangle /power pop /rock ‘n’ roll foursome Mod Lang – “What I Can’t Have” from the debut LP “Borrowed Time” [Just Add Water Records]
• California surf /psych pop /doo wop /indie rock band La Luz “Strange World (Extra! Extra! Version)” from “Extra! Extra!” EP released for Record Store Day [Sub Pop]
• Portland, OR indie rock foursome Glitterfox “I Want You Bad” single [Jealous Butcher Records]
• Mastricht, Dutch 4-piece Southeast Asian music /cosmic disco /funk /surf /psychedelic band YĪN YĪN “Pattaya Wrangler” off the fourth album “Yatta!” [Glitterbeat Records]
• Swiss indie folk-pop singer-songwriter Fiona Fiasco – “Wasteland” from upcoming debut EP “Blue Rider, Blue Faced”
  
• Paris-based bossa nova /chanson /electronic pop /French pop /instrumental music project of pianist and composer, Clea Vincent “Quadro” from the EP “Speakeasy” [Midnight Special Records]
• Nashville, Tennessee-based London, UK-born pastoral /jazz /cosmic country /psych /retro folk rock musician (once member of Miranda Lambert’s backing band), Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection “Rowan Tree” from “Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 3” LP, the last of Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection trilogy (2021, 2023) [Full Time Hobby]