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

• UK lofi /ambient /dream pop /shoegaze solo project Geneva Drive “Sub Rosa” single
  

Another delicious new single of immersive, atmospheric, home-recorded shoegaze introspection, where calm, wistful vocals float gently on the hypnotic pulse of shuffling drum patterns, surrounded by hazy, sheer guitar layers of reverberant, oneiric luminescence, wondering, suspiciously, about what lies at the heart of another’s love.

• Brighton, UK C86 /jangle indie pop DIY trio formed in 2002, Assistant “Overwhelming (The Photocopies remix)” from “Assistant / The Photocopies” split single for Cancer Research UK
  

Fine purveyors of upbeat, passionate, and heartfelt DIY indie pop, Assistant & The Photocopies join forces for a fundraising split EP, remix swap included, with all proceeds going to Cancer Research UK. In the busy, colourful The Photocopies rework of “Overwhelming”, urgent rhythms and energetic strumming build a radiating, lively nostalgia to surround introspective, angsty female vocal dreaminess with obsessive tinkling cycles of doubt, longing and desire, “But, I got to have you.”  The Assistant maquillage of the breezy, soulful and reflective “The Great Comeback”, ushers snaky groovy bass pulses, shimmery guitar chords and wooly liquid organ-like swirls around hope-filled, anxious vocals, excited about making a comeback yet shamed by the high prices.

• Munich, Germany alt-rock /shoegaze duo Blume 3000 “Kaputter Film” single [New Basement]

Certainly doesn’t lack intensity and hypnotic tension the “not shoegaze” sound by the newcomer Bavarian duo whose harsh, surreal and clangorous slow burner, “Kaputter Film”, triggers heavy thumping drum beats that ceaselessly fuel thick, crushing distorted guitar riffs, simultaneously mesmeric and aggressive, to clatter, tremble, and insistently jag, conveying emotive weight and intensity to melancholic, angry vocals, turning to powerful, airy radiations, with fierce, high-pitched surges of screechy and discordant emotions.

• Tokyo, Japan-based lo-fi /jangle pop /indie rock instrumental project of English musician Kenny Maxwell (aka Band 6), Slow Country “Lira” (previously unreleased first-ever SC composition) from “Different Beliefs” EP
  
• London-based lo-fi DIY bedroom folk singer-songwriter Samantha Whates “Do You Ever Feel Lonely” (Ivor Cutler cover)
  
• Southend, UK lo-fi /jangle pop /acoustic folk /indie rock DIY singer-songwriter Fran Carlyon “Tripping Over My Heart” from the mini-album “Home Truths” [YYZ Records]
• Northampton, Massachusetts indie folk songwriter (Gentle Hen, The Fawns, and Polaris), Henning Ohlenbusch “You, So I” lead off single from the album “Almost Always Overwhelmed”
  
• Nottingham, UK indie folk musician, singer and songwriter, Peter Hall “My Mistake” from the LP “Afterlove”
  
• Inverness, CA indie rock /experimental pop band led by musician and composer, Luke Temple and the Cascading Moms “Echo Park Donut” from the upcoming “Hungry Animal” LP [Western Vinyl]
• Norwegian–German sophisti-pop /jangle /indie pop duo J.O. Åleskjær and Seb Voss, aka Herr Wade “Aviophobie” from the forthcoming album “Happy Blues” [Bureau Platiruma]
• Sheffield, UK-based shoegaze /indie pop band The Suncharms – “Midnight Train” from the upcoming album “Darkening Sky” [Sunday Records]
• San Francisco dream pop /jangle /sadcore /indie pop band led by Glenn Donaldson, The Reds, Pinks & Purples “Heaven of Love” from upcoming LP “Acknowledge Kindness” [Fire Records]
• New Orleans-based folk /psychedelic rock /indie band led by cousins Will Marsh and Fraser Wright, Gold Connections “Iowa City” from “Iowa City / Fuckin’ Up” 2-track single [Well Kept Secret]
• Cardiff, UK dream pop duo Lunar Bird “Blue Chamber” single
  
• Montreal lo-fi electronic pop /indie pop singer-songwriter Chloé Jara-Buto “Donkey-Kong” from the debut album “Om-Om” [Le Backstore]
• Brighton, UK kosmiche /Krautrock /psych-pop trio Minor Dents “Margate” from the EP “Sitting with the Fish” EP 10″ [Rose Hill Records]
• New York electronic /dream-pop /electro-pop duo R. Missing “Evecore” single
  
• South Korea-based dreamy / jangle /indie pop from Scottish musician David Skimming, Lunar Isles “Second Chances” single
  
• Franco–Australian baroque pop /synth-pop /indie pop duo Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard “Supermarket” from the upcoming third studio album “Window Tax”[Talitres]
• Lyon, France indie pop /rock band E-grand “Stronger together” 2nd single from the upcoming 4th album “A Place No God Will Ever Find”
  
• Cambridge, UK indie guitar pop duo Tony Jenkins (from the New Fools and ex-Victorian Tin) and Christian Gustafsson, aka Kammahav “Echoes in the rain” single
  
• London-based northern soul /twee /indie pop supergroup of Peter Momtchiloff (Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research, Would-Be-Goods, Scarlet’s Well, Razorcuts), Ian Button (Papernut Cambridge, The Penrose Web, Swansea Sound, The Catenary Wires, The Night Mail, The Way Out, Thrashing Doves, Death In Vegas), and Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), aka Railcard “Revolutionary Calendar” from the debut “Railcard” LP [Skep Wax]
• Jangle /Dream Pop /Indie Pop transatlantic duo of Andy Jossi (Switzerland) and Gretchen DeVault (US), The Blue Herons “Willow” from upcoming LP “Demon Slayer” [Too Good To Be True (EU) / Shelflife Records(US) / Fastcut Records (JAP)]
  
• Santiago, Chile twee /jangle indie pop band led by singer-songwriter Mai Carvajal (My Light Shines for You, Esperando el Otoño), Las Margaritas – “Haru” title track of the new EP [JoyBoy Records]
• Belgian–French Yéyé-flavoured indie pop trio of Avril De Broucker (Lavomatic), Clémence D’Hulst (Fake Empire) and César Laloux (Ada Oda), Coup Dur “Mon Amie” from upcoming “The English Want … Coup Dur” EP 10″ [Precious Recordings of London]
• Croydon/Brighton, UK-based Schrammelig post punk /indie-pop five-piece Jetstream Pony – “Had Enough” (session) from “Riley & Coe session 09.04.25” EP [Precious Recordings of London]
• Kungälv, Swedish lo-fi jangle noise pop / indie rock band led by the songwriting duo of Robert Carlsson and Fredrik Söderström, Fort Not “Heaven To Me” from the upcoming LP “ You On Repeat” [Meritorio Records]
• Stockholm’s jangle /indie pop four-piece band Salt Lake Alley “I’ve Been Playing with Fire (Again)” from the third album, “Always Out of Time” [Too Good To Be True (EU) / Shelflife Records(US)]
  
• London, UK-based mid-80s él Records-affiliated indie pop cult band led by singer-songwriter Jessica Griffin, Would-be-goods – “Tears For Leda” third single from new album “Tears Before Bedtime” [Skep Wax]
• Birmingham, UK indie pop/psych pop band Swim Deep “Pieces of You” off the upcoming new album “Hum” [Submarine Cat Records]
• Bandung, Indonesia noise-pop punk solo project of Mirza (Toy Tambourine), Launderette Hearts “Three chords and a feeling that sounds like you” from “Accidental Smiles” EP [Untune Records]
• London-based post-punk /shoegaze /doompop /dream pop trio Rain Cloud Nine “black rainbows” single
  
• Stroud, UK-based atmospheric /shoegaze /art-rock /dream-pop duo of Chloe Little and James Taylor (formerly of the band INHEAVEN), Wings of Desire “Whisper” single
  
• Manchester, UK electronica /post rock /shoegaze /indie rock musician and composer, Tom Leonard “Stay Gone” from “What Has Been And What Will Be” LP [Shore Dive Records]
• Brooklyn via-Chicago electronic pop/dream pop/shoegaze husband-wife duo Silver Liz “Trixie’s Crying” from the LP “III” [Extremely Pure]
• Orlando, FL-based shoegaze /dream pop band led by Matthew Messore, aka Cathedral Bells “Stray” 2nd single from upcoming LP “Parallel Dreams” [Artoffact Records]
• St. Petersburg, Russia-based alt-rock /dream pop /shoegaze outfit Lingerveil “If You Even Still Can Be Found No Need to Hide” debut single
  
• Toronto, Canada slowcore /post-rock /indie rock /shoegaze four-piece Mount Mural “Out and down” single
  
• Riga, Latvia shoegaze /dreampop band Tribes of the City “Evidence of Embrace” single
  
• Glasgow, UK based alt-rock /grunge /shoegaze outfit, Dutch Wine “Facade” single
  
• Los Angeles, CA dream pop /shoegaze /dream rock band Essencer “So long” single
  
• Glasgow, UK shoegaze /dream pop four-piece Dallas Love Field “Pastime” single
  
• Ontario alternative rock /fuzz /shoegaze four-piece CLOSEOUT “Mercy” second single
  
• Lutruwita/Tasmania alternative rock /psych /shoegaze band dvrkworld “Stimulation” single
  
• Los Angeles-based neo-psychedelic /shoegaze collective Tombstones In Their Eyes “You Never Have to Love Me” single
  
• Liverpool, UK-based psychedelic indie rock collective Sunstack Jones “Rainy” from “Slow Country” EP [AV8 Records]
• London, UK DIY garage-psych-punk pioneers led by Jowe Head featuring David Callahan (Wolfhounds / Moonshake), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown‘s Lucie Rejchrtova, Lee McFadden (Alternative TV), Chloe Herington (of Chrome Hoof), Jeff Bloom (Television Personalities), and Luke Haines (Baader Meinhof, The Auteurs), Swell Maps “Vertical Take-Off And Landing” from the new studio LP “C21” [Tiny Global Productions]
• London-based enigmatic post-punk stalwarts formed in the late 70s, Cult Figures “Lunatic Friend” from “Reports of People” LP [Precious Recordings of London]
• London psychedelic pop band formed in the late 80s, The Chemistry Set “STP” from “The Lucy Doraine” single
  
• Cardiff, Wales-based electronic /baroque pop /folk /psychedelic collective Soft Hearted Scientists “Golden Gates” from the home-made demo collection LP “Ffuture Songzz Volume 2”
  
• Long Beach, CA power pop quartet SOFTJAW “Pleased With Me” from the upcoming self-titled EP/singles collection [Dandy Boy Records / Bachelor Records]
• Los Angeles-based power pop /rock’n’roll band Uni Boys “Abra” off the upcoming 4th LP “Buy This Now!” [Curation Records]
• Oakland, CA jangle power pop outfit The Goods “Back To You” (The Riverdales cover, 1995) [Dandy Boy Records]
• Austin, Texas 60s freakbeat /folk /psych /garage rock band Mal Thursday Quintet “If 6 Was 5” first single from the album “Mods & Gods” [Misty Lane Music]
• Toronto-based power pop /indie rock solo project of Alex Edkins (Metz), Weird Nightmare “Might See You There” from the upcoming debut LP “Hoopla” [Sub Pop]
• Italian alt-rock /indie pop-rock singer-songwriter Georgia, Georgia “Soft tongue” from “Looking for affection” LP [Factory Flaws]
• Portland, OR Balearic /dub /kraut /space /psychedelic rock /experimental electronic duo Michael McKinnon and Matthew Quiet, aka Natural Magic “Ride” from “II” LP [Optimo Music]
• Brighton, UK ambient pop duo Kirsty Yates and Julian Tardo (originally known in the early 90s as Earwig), Insides “Nobody Could Love You more”