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

• France/UK electronic /folk /indie pop new project by Lille‘s Natasha Penot (Grisbi, The Apartments) and Stirling-based Mark Tranmer (GNAC, Vetchinsky Settings, The Montgolfier Brothers), Fragment B “Beautiful Dreamer” single [Vertical Features]

First captivating song release by the Anglo/French project, while writing & recording new material between Stirling and Lille, with a 2-track 7″ single scheduled for this Summer on Brest’s label Too Good To Be True. A heavy, gloomy darkness hovers and kneads, with a hypnotic tension, stirred by soft thudding drum patterns and droning bass pulses, through warm and sparkling expansions of stroked guitar chords and layers of wistful keyboard motifs, to surround dreamy dual male/female vocals with the different sensations experienced by lack of, or engagement in, present moment awareness.

• Berlin-based 3-piece shoegaze /fuzzy dream pop band Sweetspot “Ice Cream Lover” single
  

An uplifting ode to ice cream and love, the equally catchy and strident, intriguing second single from the Berlin-based trio, blends Drop Nineteens-like atmospheric grittiness, and Midwest Emo tinkly tones with soaring Frazer-esque female vocals. High-pitched, elated vocals jaggedly cut through a heavy pulsing murk of punchy drums and thick bass throbs, layered with a persistent ringing, distorted friction from screeching, at times whistling, and abrasive guitar riffs, to melodiously glide with love and joy.

• Kansas City-based 4-piece jangle /soft psych /gentle pop band Eggs On Mars “Good Morning (I Love You)” title track and lead single of the upcoming LP “Good Morning (I Love You)” [Enigmatic Brunch Records]

A delicious soft pop artefact about love, longing, and unity, where steady shifting drums and warm snaky bass pulses trigger subtly glistening, echoing guitar riffs, mellow staccato keyboard bounces, and a final thin, passionate, wistful, crystal clear lead line, fanned by a lush, unhurried colorfulness, to engulf gloomy, anxious vocals with bittersweet feelings of joy, loss, longing, and hope.

• East Devon, UK ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /experimental music project (aka Prozapine, and Sunshine Playroom), Persephonic Sprawl “Polyphonic Currents” from the upcoming 7-track EP/mini album “Kleeep” inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee
  
• London-based ambient /experimental /dream pop /dub /gothic folk /leftfield pop collaboration The Dengie Hundred with Gemma Blackshaw – “AVIIR” from V/A “The Black Hill, The Glass Sky” compilation LP [Somewhere Press]
• London-based lo-fi /electronic /experimental pop home recording project of Glasgow‘s duo Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine (both formerly of the bands Vital Idles and Mordwaffe), Guests “Make Something Happen” from upcoming sophomore “Common Domestic Bird” LP [World of Echo]
• East Devon, UK ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /experimental music project (aka Prozapine, and Sunshine Playroom), Persephonic Sprawl “Polyphonic Currents” from the upcoming 7-track EP/mini album “Kleeep” inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee
  
• Seattle, WA-based Americana/ Indie Folk Rock singer-songwriter Damien Jurado “A New Kind of Love” from Keith is Plane Crazy” EP [Maraqopa Records]
• Mississippi ambient / dreampop /psychedelic folk singer-songwriter Sad Bath “I And The Light” from the debut “Moon Smile” EP
  
• UK pastoral jangle-psych-folk singer-songwriter Andrew Rumsey “Place of Dragons” from the upcoming LP “Blank Arcades”, third in the acclaimed triptych of albums-in-a-day recorded in historic Wiltshire churches
  
• Hamilton, Canada lo-fi /indie folk singer-songwriter Scott Orr “Geometry” (Single) [Other Songs]
• Dublin, Ireland alternative rock /psychedelic /indie folk singer-songwriter (formerly of The Last Tycoons), A.S. Fanning “Romance” from upcoming “Take Me Back to Nowhere” LP
  
• German veteran experimental /kraut /glitch-pop /indietronica group led by Markus and Micha Acher, aka The Notwist “Projectors” from the upcoming album “News from Planet Zombie”, first studio album since 1995 [Morr Music]
• London-based legendary Anglo/French kraut /avant pop band Stereolab “Flashes In The Afternoon” from “Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon” 7″ single [Warp Records]
• 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 “Nana Niña” 3rd single from the upcoming debut album “Madeleine” [Knekelhuis]
• London-based Anglo/French ambient pop /indietronica /new wave /sophisti-pop/’ghost rock’ duo of former Piano Magic Franck Alba & Glen Johnson (Textile Ranch, Future Conditional), aka Theory Of Ghosts “No Contact (feat. Kirsty Yates)” from “The Sulphur And The Grey” album [Second Language Music]
• Brighton’s indie pop /jazz-pop /soft rock band led by songwriter Miles Goodall, Soft Top “Your Aching Words” [Crafting Room Recordings]
• Norwegian dream pop/psych-pop duo of Linn Frøkedal and Richard K. Andreassen, Misty Coast “Hallucinating” from upcoming LP “Always Sun” [Melodaze Records]
• US/Germany kraut /abstract electronics /post-rock /indietronics collaboration between mid-90s bands Washington DC‘s duo Stephen Gardner (also of noisy shoegaze pioneers, Lorelei) and Ben Bailes with Berlin‘s quartet (Morr Music, the Notwist, Jersey and Saroos), Chessie + Contriva “Magenta” from upcoming “Black Jacket” LP [Watusi]
• Gothenburg, Sweden shoegaze /post-punk /electronic solo project D4RKSTAR “There is Hope” single
  
• Malaysia indie /dream-pop unit Youth Portal “My Love” single
  
• Indonesia indie /electropop trio BROKENCHAINS “Fear of Forever” from their final “Not Tomorrow” EP [Untune Records]
• UK indiepop legends since the early 90s, led by Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey (Marine Research, Talulah Gosh, The Tender Trap), Heavenly “Roba Escenas” Spanish version of the song included on the upcoming LP “Highway to Heavenly”, the band’s first album in 30 years [Skep Wax]
• South Wales indie rock /bubblegum disco /punk pop band, Helen Love “I’m In Love With You” from “Some Fucking Love Songs” 4-track 7″ EP [Precious Recordings of London]
• Indonesian C86 /noise pop solo project from a member of Bogor indie-rock outfit Telly Blue, Texas Two “Chinese New Years” from the cassette album “Chronovisor” [Galaxy Train]
• Gothenburg, Sweden jangly-indie-punk-pop trio fronted by Mikael Carlsson (later with The Honeydrips, Kissing Mirrors, and now with Salt Lake Alley), Dorotea “Kiss me if you love me” from “Abolish it! (2002-2005)” LP compilation 12″ [Appetite]
• Indonesian Indiepop outfit from Depok, The Wellington “Painted Room (cassette rip)” from “Damai (cassette rip)” EP  [disanorak]
• Leicester, UK-based DIY jangle /indie pop solo project of Neil Hill, aka Shopfires “Retort House” second single taken from the forthcoming album “The Old Works”
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “It’s All You Have To Do” from the 18th album “6 Weeks Holiday, Nowhere To Play” [Salt Mine Records]
• Indonesia post-punk /new wave /indie-pop-rock five-piece from Yogyakarta, The Bunbury – “Some Stupid Songs To Cry About” from “Romance Reigns” EP
  
• Queens, NY indie rock /slowcore band Hiding Places “Waiting” off the upcoming debut album “The Secret To Good Living” [Keeled Scales]
• Switzerland indie pop /folk /rock duo Seasonal Falls “Geezer Lemonade” from the album “The Unbearable Loudness of Stupidity” [Subjangle]
• Vancouver, BC indie rock foursome Western Motel “Patience” from “Badass Dragon” 4-track 7″ EP [Kingfisher Bluez]
• Brunei indie rock-pop /folk singer-songwriter Aizat Haris “Part Of Growing Up” from upcoming “The World Keeps on Spinning” LP [Esdeath Recordings]
• Los Angeles-based garage /indie rock moniker of singer-songwriter Tim Presley (formerly of Darker My Love), White Fence “Your Eyes” from the 8th LP “Orange” [Drag City Records]
• California indie rock /dream jangle pop /garage-pop singer-songwriter and musician Josh Hwang, CASTLEBEAT ”This Takes Time” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Austin, TX twee /indie pop 4-piece band Touch Girl Apple Blossom “The Springtime Reminds Me Of…” from “Graceful” LP [perennialdeath]
• Gothenburg, Sweden electronic /shoegaze /dream pop band Boy With Apple “Simplicity” single from the forthcoming LP “Navigation” [Welfare Sounds & Records]
• London-based dream pop /shoegaze solo project Rainsong “Amico” single
  
• Austin, TX-based ambient /dreampop /shoegaze solo project of Haley Davidson, aka Dottie “Eternal” single
  
• French shoegaze dream pop band from Nantes led by Jimmy Arfosea, An Ocean Of Embers “Heterochromy (SH Version)” from “Phosphorescence” EP [Shore Dive Records]
• Verona, Italy cinematic /shoegaze /dream pop /moviegaze collaborative solo project of multi-instrumentalist and composer Giulia Cinquetti (You, Nothing), Swayglow “Grey Blooming” from the debut “Unpredictable Blooming” EP [Dear Gear Records]
• Dublin, Ireland lo-fi ambient /dream-pop /shoegaze project led by Finn Carraher McDonald, aka Nashpaints “Stretching” from the second album”Everyone Good Is Called Molly” [MirrorWorld]
• Koblenz, Germany shoegaze /dream pop band PIECES “Low Voice – Version 2026” single
  
• Indonesia dreampop /shoegaze 4-piece band fronted by Derry Cahyo Nugroho (formerly of Dust), Glitter “Wild Flower” from the debut “Saturation” EP [Faster Records]
• Nizhny Novgorod, Russia dream pop /post-rock /indie /shoegaze band 11:11 “Дар (ft. Луговые Мари)” single
  
• Santiago, Chile-based alternative rock /shoegaze quartet Slowkiss “Let Go” from the LP “Fresh”
  
• Nakhon Pathom, Thailand dream pop /shoegaze band PYR “Shimmer Gloss” single
  
• Portland, OR-based Dream Pop /Shoegaze quartet Helens “Groundswell” single
  
•  Moscow, Russia psychedelic /post-punk /shoegaze 5-piece band Dog Silent “Welcome to the Ocean of My Drowned Stars” single
  
• Filipino four-piece post-hardcore /shoegaze band hailing from Davao City, Cosmic Suns “Ethereal” single [New Misery]
• San Francisco post-hardcore /alt-rock /indie rock /shoegaze band Gloomhead “Six” from the debut self-titled EP “Gloomhead”
  
• Queens, NY garage /indie rock /grungegaze band led by Robert Preston Collum, Pink Mexico – “Gød wishes he was here” from “PM_PE_SPLIT” split single with Pants Exploder
  
• Southern California-based 3-piece alt /shoegaze /indie rock band Junebug “Perfume” from the double A-side single “Flesh / Perfume”
  
• London-based 2-piece indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band Monochromatic Visions “Nothing” from the new album “Closure”
  
• Barcelona-based Shoegaze /Neo-Psychedelic band Celestial Bums “Landslide” from the 4th album “Minutes From Heaven” [We Were Never Being Boring]
• Brussels/Berlin 4-piece veteran noise /post-punk /psychedelic rock group (former members of Gang Of Four, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tricky, The Fuzztones), Golden Hours “Heading For The Moon” from the sophomore LP “Beyond Wires” [Fuzz Club Records]
• England 5-piece /post-rock /experimental dark rock band led by Matthew Rochford, aka Abrasive Trees “Carved Skull” first single from the upcoming debut album “Light Remaining” [Argonauta Records]
• Australian garage rock band of Adalita, Mick Turner, Mick Harvey and Marty Brow, Bleak Squad “Black & White” 7-inch single [Poison City Records]
• Derry, Ireland Alternative Rock / Goth Punk artist and songwriter Shannon Delores O’Neill, aka Sister Ghost “Not Your Toy” single
  
• Dresden, Germany Rock’n’Roll /Power Pop Punk foursome The Melmacs “Keep On” from upcoming “EUPHANCHOLIA” LP [Bakraufarfita Records (GER) / Wanda Records (GER) / Spaghetty Town Records (USA) / Beluga Records (SWE)]
• Glasgow, Scotland indie rock /folk singer-songwriter Lizzie Reid “Sweet Relief (ft. Hamish Hawk)” from the upcoming “Undoing” EP
  
• Welland, Ontario alt country /rock and roll /psych rock band led by singer-songwriter Daniel Romano, aka Daniel Romano’s Outfit “Cardinal Star” from upcoming LP “Preservers Of The Pearl” [You’ve Changed Records]
• Pioneering Japanese folk singer-songwriter (best known for her enduring Haruomi Hosono-produced 1972 album “Misora”), Sachiko Kanenobu “Music Carries Me On” off “Music Carries Me On b/w Keep On Smiling” single, first new recordings in over 25 years [Temporal Drift]
• Yuma, AZ ambient /desert music /instrumental /indie folk amateur guitarist Charles ‘Poppy Bob’ Walker “Creosote Wind” from the LP “DOUBLE-WIDE” [Castle Dome Records]