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

• Minneapolis, MN alternative synth-pop artist Greg Johnson (co-writer, vocalist, and guitarist in the band Plastik Boxes), aka Greg Online “Cherished” single
  

A captivating slightly dark and reflective single, as he made us used to lately, from the Minneapolis artist, check his other two-piece project Plastik Boxes below, driven by steady percussions bouncing under a mesmeric nostalgic haze rippled by an intricate wobbling lush web of wistful arpeggiated guitar melodies. that insistently chime, spark, and sizzle along with sad fluting key motifs, to cradle gently intimate, heartfelt vocals, singing about living life to the fullest by feeling deep emotions with a loved one.

• New York 5-piece indie /post-punk /dream-pop /shoegaze band Carnations “Bully” debut single
  

Blurry newcomer 5-piece from New York debuts with a seven-minute steady stumbling, guitar-distorted jam reminiscent of the Swirlies, builds a subtly scuzzy, hazy, bittersweet dreamscape, refracting through sun-dappled flurries of flickering strident glimmering textures and ringing wistful reverberations, that helplessly swell and stretch over sad, smooth, and vibrant vocals, anxious about feeling heavy with no direction, like a moth without a flame.

• Saint Petersburg, Russia alternative rock /shoegaze quintet LAAVU “Вспять” single
  

Dark heavy, dreamy Shoegaze from the cold and snowy Saint Petersburg. The new single “Backward”, about a sensitive soul who is able to feel the thundering thoughts and burning eyes of others while trapped inside during a snow storm, builds on plodding drums, thudding steadily beneath resonant fuzzy thick gusts of guitar distortion, bubbling and bleeding into droning swollen abrasive drifts and wailing ringing ripples, to shimmer and fade at the end around sad ethereal vocals, radiating relentless pain and worry.

• UK lo-fi /ambient /folk-pop woodland meditations from members of Firestations, The Leaf Library and Marlody, aka Mirrored Daughters “Waiting At The Water” from the debut s/t album [Fika Recordings]
• UK ambient /dream pop /psych-folk collaborative project of Irish singer-songwriter Alison O'Donnell (Mellow Candle) and Sheffield-based multi-instrumentalist-composer Gayle Brogan aka Pefkin (Meadowsilver, Burd Ellen), Alison O'Donnell & Gayle Brogan "In May You Sing All Day" from upcoming "A Colloquy of Birds" album (a collection of songs inspired by the folklore of birds) [Sonido Polifonico]
• Italian collaboration between London-based experimental psych-folk singer-songwriter and Ravenna's veteran rock band, Emma Tricca & Ronin "It Was A Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake cover, 1961)
  
• London-based ambient /slowcore /folk singer, songwriter, musician and producer Jacob Ware, aka RAPT “Making Maps" from "Until The Light Takes Us” LP [Start-track]
• Portland-based ambient /drone /field recordings /shoegaze /tape loops /electronic solo project of audio & visual artist Randall Taylor, aka Amulets "Lifelike (feat. Midwife)" from the album "Not Around But Through" [Beacon Sound]
• Los Angeles-based transcendental folk /minimalistic drone pop project of singer-songwriter, Lael Neale – “Tell Me How To Be Here" from the upcoming album “Altogether Strange" [Sub Pop Records]
• Austin, TX indie dream folk husband-and-wife musical duo aeseaes “Horror Vacui” off of the upcoming full-length LP “Opia”
  
• Trondheim, Norway alternative /dream pop /indie artist formerly known as Jakob Ogawa, aka Jakob "Swan" single
  
• Galway, Ireland ambient /drone /dream pop musician and composer Maria Somerville "Garden" off the second album "Luster" [4AD]
• Bristol, UK electronic /indie rock /dream pop duo Jadu Heart "AUX" single [VLF Records]
• Bristol, UK Synth Pop duo OSLO TWINS "I Wake Up Slowly" single
  
• Manchester, UK-based, Preston-born ambient /trip-hop /folk /experimental /electronic singer-songwriter Rainy Miller "The Fable / The Release." from upcoming LP "Joseph, What Have You Done?" [SUPERNATURE / Fixed Abode]
• Berlin-based yacht rock /jazz funk duo of Joshua Gottmanns and Niklas Wandt, aka Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge "Im Dunkeln" single [Bureau B]
• UK folk /indie pop duo of James Hackett (The Orchids) and Mark Tranmer (The Montgolfier Brothers / GNAC / St. Christopher), aka Vetchinsky Settings "Open Your Eyes [And See] (demo)" from the 2xCD reissue plus bonus tracks of the 2019 debut LP "Underneath The Stars, Still Waiting * Deluxe Edition" [Vertical Features]
• Lancaster, UK longstanding indie pop band led by Ste Hudson, aka Dog Daisies "Holiday" off the upcoming new album "Reclaim" [Bingo Records]
• Copenhagen, Denmark lo-fi indie rock /bedroom pop solo project flatheadstanley "Maybe in another life..." single from upcoming EP "Bleach"
  
• Normandy, France indie /synthpop band Beach Youth "7am" single from the upcoming album "Sunbathing"
  
• Oklahoma City bedroom /indie /dream pop musician and composer Ford Chastain “Live Again" from the EP "Reverie” [Start-track]
• Portland, Maine dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock singer-songwriter Darksoft – “Day By Day” off "Rationalism" LP [Spirit Goth Records]
• Hove, UK-based electro-acoustic /indie-pop collaboration between former The Popguns‘ husband and wife duo Wendy & Simon Pickles, The Perfect English Weather – “Caroline of Brunswick Square” from the forthcoming album ”Just Beyond The Lights” [Matinée Recordings]
• Gloucester, Massachusetts psych-folk /dream pop /jangle pop singer-songwriter and musician Michael Telles (formerly known as Night Heron), aka 3 A.M. Again "Lost" from the upcoming album "The Psychic's Letter" [The Cats Collect]
• SF Bay Area 60s /psych /indie pop group NOW "In Pathécolor" from upcoming LP "Now Does The Trick" [krecs]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi C86 /post-punk /twee /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Goodbye!" 2-track 7” Vinyl single [Salt Mine Records]
• South of England 4-piece mod revival band, Block 33 "London Town" from the debut album "The Promised Land"
  
• Late 80s/early 90s Leicester, UK psych /jangle /indie pop band The Ammonites "(Might as well) Rain in England Forever" from "AYE. PART 1" digitally "rescued" collection of original four-track tape cassette recordings made on trusty Tascam Porta-05 machine between 1988 and 1991 [Mackinder Records]
• Indonesian twee indie pop band Moongazing and Her "We Pop Your Party" single [Broken Strings]
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock /power pop band THE NEWSLETTERS "Dirty Looks" from the "FALLING RAIN" LP
  
• Lille, France Shoegaze /Post-Punk band, belljars "Wave Day" from the upcoming s/t album [Hidden Bay Records / Araki Records]
• Tokyo, Japan 4-piece guitar indie pop band led by former Snowflakes, Ken Uniya, The Dreamwalks "Rainbow structure" from the debut two-track "Rainbow structure" EP
  
• Turin, Italy indie rock /jangle-pop act (FKA Smile), THE WENDS “Where Are You Now” from the collection album "The Wends ~ "Singles 2020-2025" [Subjangle / We Were Never Being Boring Collective]
• Auckland, NZ indie rock band Voom "Trouble" off upcoming new album "Something Good Is Happening"[Flying Nun Records]
• Los Angeles lo-fi /emo /shoegaze /indie rock project of Marina Sakimoto, aka Shunkan "Hellbound" from upcoming LP "Kamikaze Girl" [Rite Field Records]
• Eaglehawk, Australia dream pop /shoegaze duo of Megumie Alcala & Robbie Adams, aka Superluminal Objects "I Can Feel Your Spooky Action" debut single
  
• Seattle, WA dream pop /shoegaze duo Fotoform "If You Knew / Don't You Worry, Baby" first single from upcoming LP "Grief is a Garden (Forever in Bloom)"
  
• Chicago-based 5-piece indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop band Snowcuffs “Droplets” from upcoming cassette EP "Sink Down"
  
• Torrance, CA dream-pop /indie rock /shoegaze band sleepwlkr "Over/Under" from the debut EP "Helia"
  
• Akron, Ohio dreampop /indie rock /shoegaze band Lovely Weather “Olden Days” single
  
• Toledo, OH dream-pop /grunge /shoegaze duo Nullsign “Phantom Pain” from the debut EP "Sensory"
  
• Örebro, Sweden 5-piece dream-pop /shoegaze band Kallsup ”Forever” third single from the upcoming debut album, “En sista räddning” [VÅRØ]
• Los Angeles-based fuzzy /shoegaze /noise-pop /psych /indie band (formerly LEAF), SPLIT MOON “Fall Without Fading" from the forthcoming album “More Clouds More Stars”
  
• Hackney, London-based four-piece shoegaze Cheerless "Demoncore" single
  
• California-based alternative-rock /noise-rock /shoegaze band founded by Eugene San, aka Go With Strangers “Further” from the upcoming debut album “Ave, Reverie”
  
• Bangkok, Thailand-based alt-rock /dreampop /shoegaze bands' collaboration, Slowwves x Death Of Heather - "Evangeline" single                                                                                                                                                 
• Oakland, CA 5-piece shoegaze project Ringlet "Relax" single
  
• Pennsylvania alternative rock /emo /indie rock /shoegaze band Superheaven "Cruel Times" from upcoming s/t album [Blue Grape Music]
• Durant, Oklahoma alt /noise rock /shoegaze five-piece HEAVYTRIP “Clear" from "Heavytrip/Local Ski Lodge" Split EP
  
• Philadelphia, PA alternative rock /shoegaze band led by Paul Whiteford, AKA Cigarettes for Breakfast “Slow Motion” title track of the new album “Slow Motion”
  
• Maryland indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze bedroom project THE PLEASURE HOLES ”ICE AGE COMING HOME” (Single)
  
• Philadelphia, PA grungegaze /shoegaze band SLIDE "iii" single
  
• Quebec/Texas krautrock /psychedelic rock group of Rishi Dhir (of Elephant Stone), Alex Maas (of The Black Angels), John Mark Lapham (of The Earlies), and Robb Kidd (Alex Maas, Golden Dawn Arkestra), aka MIEN "Empty Sun" from the upcoming second s/t LP [Fuzz Club Records]
• Montreal, Quebec indie /surf /post-punk /garage rock 4-piece Private Lives “Psychic Beat" from the upcoming second LP "Salt of the Earth” [Feel It Records]
• Cincinnati, OH punk rockers Motorbike “Currency” lead single off the second LP "Kick It Off" [Feel It Records]
• İstanbul, Türkiye alternative pop multifaceted singer and songwriter and former member of Amsterdam-based band Altın Gün, MERVE "Platonik" title track of her debut LP
  
• Minneapolis-based melancholic synth-pop duo of Efren Maldonado (a.k.a Pye Luis) and Greg Johnson (a.k.a Greg Online), Plastik Boxes "Ever Warm" single
  
• Bay Area electro-acoustic indie rock solo project of Jordan Chipman, aka George Children "Beautiful Stranger" from the upcoming cassette EP "Kitchen Sink Drama" EP [Dandy Boy Records]
• New Orleans indie folk rock band formed in 2007 by Bronx, NY native singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra, aka Hurray For The Riff Raff "Pyramid Scene" single [Nonesuch Records]
• Portland, OR-based, Canadian–American ambient /cinematic /electroacoustic /electronic musician (one half of synth-pop duo Mint Julep with her husband Keith, aka Helios), Hollie Kenniff “For Forever (feat. Helios) [Rework]” [Nettwerk]
• UK ambient /dream pop /post-rock /guitar project of Ben Holton (epic45, My Autumn Empire), AKA Birds In The Brickwork “Corporate Road" from "Business Park Study #1” EP ( to accompany a set of postcards depicting the strange peace of a West Midlands business park) [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• Hungarian Psychedelic Folk /Rock collective Psychedelic Source Records "Brown Snake's Crawling" from the LP "Hasssh!"