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

• Birmingham, UK post-punk /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze singer-songwriter Oliver Beardmore “Dead Oceans” single
  

Brummie musician, singer and composer keeps on refining his deeply emotional and nuanced approach to songwriting paired with a sparkling guitar work. the new single weaves an insistent push and pull of sparkling wistful arpeggios, painful ringing wails, and bursts of fuzzed-out distortion, to caress and scratch dreamy sad vocals, aching to forget the heartache while pretending to have a perfect day.

• Munich, Germany-based  dream pop /wave-pop /shoegaze /jangle pop band founded and led by French musician Julien,  Somewhere Underwater “Carry On” single [AdP Records]

To be honest, I wasn’t familiar with the French-led Bavarian band active since around 2015, their latest infectious single is an obsessive, angsty, and nostalgic jangling pop jam which literally carries us on a fluctuating intricate rapid flow of twinkling guitar melodies, heart-skipping beats, and lithe pulsing bass lines to insistently wistfully chimes over dreamy heartfelt vocals, manifesting the feeling of persisting, despite past heartache.

• US ambient /electronic /new age /dream-pop singer-songwriter (aka Pat Moon), Kate de Rosset “Heart Desire” single
  

Having put aside the ethereal, yet subtly noir and haunting, soundscapes, under the alias of Pat Moon, the North American electronic singer-songwriter has been embarking, for a few years now, under the nom de plume of Kate de Rosset, towards sonic paths equally aimed at dreamy and ethereal settings, but purely crystalline and organic in close harmony with the vibrations of nature, infused with enveloping evocative magnetic Enya-esque echoes. Felt like a new chapter, “Heart Desire” is a beautifully honest romantic confession of fear and regret swinging over smoothly ticking percussion patterns, swelling keyboard glows and gleaming vibrant whimsical chimes, surrounding fragile heartfelt vocals with a sense of intimacy and understanding.

• Reggio Emilia, Italy ambient /post-rock /shoegaze /electronic musician and composer Riccardo Spaggiari, aka Cosmos in Collision “Chronos” from upcoming LP “The Passage Of Time” [SUNSEASKY]
• Birmingham, UK ambient /classical orchestration project of shoegaze musician, singer and composer Finlay Hatton, aka Winter Harbour “Requiem for a Dream” title track of the album “Requiem for a Dream”
  
• Brighton, UK-based ambient /ethereal /shoegaze side project from Dreamcoaster‘s Andrew and Jane Craig, aka Intermere “Forever” second single
  
• Kansas City-based drone /psych /shoegaze duo Shalloboi “Delirious” from the album “At the Mercy of the Clouds”
  
• Stockholm, Sweden progressive rock /psychedelic /dreamy folk collective Me and My Kites “Solens vän” from the vinyl 12″ compilation LP “Sense Nonsense”
  
• Japan‘s ambient /indie-pop /dream-pop 1993-formed originators, Sugar Plant “Blue submarine” 2-track single 7″ (first new song in six years) [KiliKiliVilla]
• New York City electronic /psych pop /dream pop band Comedown Room “Skin” single
  
• Los Angeles-based dream pop band led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez, aka Cigarettes After Sex – “Tejano Blue” from the upcoming album “X’s” [Partisan Records]
• Oklahoma City indie bedroom /dream pop artist Ford Chastain “Do It Anyway” single
  
• Michigan Indie /Dream Pop duo Bluhm “Hello To Heaven” single
  
• Melbourne indie rock /dream pop quartet Keaper “Atonement” single
  
• Oslo, Norway indie /dream pop solo project Yndling “Monopoly” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Melbourne cinematic /avant-pop /krautrock /synth band EGGY ‘Open Field’ 7″ single
  
• California experimental pop /folk multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and visual artist (Rodan founding member), Tara Jane O’Neil “Curling” from the upcoming album “The Cool Cloud of Okayness” [Orindal Records]
• San Francisco‘s electronic /fuzz-pop /janglegaze /’odd pop’ 4-piece SEABLITE “Faded (GLOK Remix)”
  
• Los Angeles-based synthpop duo Paycheque “When You Are Around” single
  
• SF Bay Area shoegaze /indie rock /textural pop group Torrey “Moving” from upcoming sophomore S/T album [Slumberland Records]
• Rennes-based post-punk /indie /wave /French pop project of Mathilde Lejas, aka Championne “Petite mort” from the debut S/T EP
  
• Hayfork, California indie rock /post-pre-future punk band (former members of Baltimore’s Wilderness), Vulture Feather “Friendship” from upcoming 10″ EP “Merge Now In Friendship” [Felte Records]
• Brazilian jangle indie guitar pop band led by Adriano do Couto, aka Postal Blue “Maybe I’m Dreaming” from the archival collection “Early Demos ’98-’99”
  
• Seattle, WA minimal Casio indie pop project of Danny Rowland (Seapony, and Transmittens), Research Vessel “Going On” off debut cassette EP, “Going Tomorrow” [Small Craft Advisory]
• Manchester, UK indie rock /dream pop one-man band of Mathew Mills, aka Goodbye Wudaokou “Ultraviolet Kiss” second single from the upcoming debut album “Mirror Skies”
  
• Norway/Germany indie /jangle-pop collaboration of Jørn Åleskjær (The Loch Ness Mouse, Sapphire & Steel) and Sebastian Voss (Nah…, The Fisherman and his Soul), aka HERR WADE “To Peristéri (me Judes)” from the double CD album “WorldWideWadeland” on Bureau Platiruma!!!
  
• Canadian 3-piece lo-fi /indie rock /shoegaze band from Toronto, Tearjerker “Farm” from the cassette LP “This Is Really All We Need” [Almost Communist]
• San Francisco lo-fi dream-pop duo Michael Ramos (Tony Jay) and Karina Gill (Cindy), FLOWERTOWN “Tourist Language” title track of the vinyl 12″ album “Tourist Language” [Paisley Shirt Records]
• Oslo, Norway lo-fi slowcore /jangle /fuzz /noise-pop band The Age of Colored Lizards “In the Light” from “3 A.M.” EP [Sotron Records]
• Glasgow/Edinburgh, Scotland DIY bedroom folk /jangle /dream /indie pop project of singer-songwriter Michael Kay Terence, aka Swiss Portrait “Talk” single
  
• Providence, Rhode Island jangly indie twee pop band STRAWBERRY GENERATION “Iris (Eyelids)” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY indie-rock/ jangle pop band Trinket “New Hobby” title track of the new cassette EP “New Hobby” [Sad Club Records]
• French dream pop /shoegaze /indie pop solo project of Maud Platiau-Bourret aka Maud Anyways – “The Statement” unreleased track recorded during the sessions for last year’s Maud Anyways’ debut LP “Impermanent Lane”
  
• Oxnard, CA indie folk /pop band led by Brock Pierce, Chatterton “God’s Little Hands” from upcoming LP “Fields Of This”
  
• Tucson, AZ lo-fi /twee /indie pop /power pop home-recorded solo project Dimitriam “Not Here” off the cassette album “Amphora” [Moone Records]
• New York lo-fi /jangle /indie pop new moniker of DIY solo project  the lil hospital, aka Theee Kevin Alvir “beASt MOdE” single
  
• Seattle, WA indie /dream pop project of singer-songwriter  Dean Stafford, aka Early Internet “Ruminator” single
  
• New York indie rock duo Ben Jackson and Genesis Edenfield (former members of Warehouse), Zero Point Energy “Over My Head” from the upcoming album “Tilted Planet” [Danger Collective Records]
• Portland, OR-based Detroit-native artist’s psychedelic glam rock n’ roll spectacular, Aura Zorba “Unearthly” from the CD EP “Phantom Rose Ballads & Gems” [Shore Dive Records]
• Nottingham/Kent, UK psych-pop /indie rock trio Mark Rolfe (Lorna), Jonathon Lucas (Strings of Seville) and Gareth Leggeat (Twitchels), aka The Slow Return “If I Saw You” single [Winnetka Records]
• Ventura, California indie rock /fuzzy pop trio The Spires “Index” 2-track 7″ single
  
• Athens, Ohio jangle indie pop trio The Laughing Chimes – “He Never Finished The Thought” from V/A “Two Two Seven” compilation LP 12″ [Prefect Records]
• Stockholm indie synthpop trio Red Sleeping Beauty “Is This Love?” third release from the ongoing “One song a month series”
  
• Swedish indie /synthpop project of Oskar Humlebo (1/2 of Pikko and former guitarist of The Cardigans), Moto Boy “When are you coming home?” 3rd single from the upcoming LP “Drown out the Noise” [KaiLudvig]
• Hamburg, Germany jingle-jangle-fuzz-power-baroque-pop-wallofsound-DIY-Home-Studio-Project, theCatherines “Ned Rorem Said” from the CD album “If I Had Known Then”
  
• Swansea, UK jangle /indie pop collaboration featuring musicians from the 90s Sarah Records band the Sweetest Ache, Summerhouse “Holding On”
  
• Berlin-based jangle /indie pop solo project of band member of the Seaside Stars and Man Behind Tree, aka Hanemoon “Why Don’t You Walk Away” single from upcoming album “Rain or Shine”
  
• UK garage /indie rock /jangle /post-punk DIY experimentalists from the South East of England, The Pheromoans “Compound Shock” from the album ”Wyrd Psearch” [Upset The Rhythm]
• Melbourne-based indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze trio Slomo “Do What I Mean” single
  
• Viennese 4-piece shoegaze /indie rock band Ischia “Sleep” single [Siluh Records]
• Paisley, Scottish mid-80s, C86 /indie pop rock band Close Lobsters “Heaven … Rains [Going To Heaven To See If It Rains] (Janice Long session)” from “CLOSE LOBSTERS – Janice Long session 15.07.86″ EP 10” [Precious Recordings of London]
• Leeds, UK punk /wave /fuzz /garage pop band Nervous Twitch “Your Cruel Ways” from the CD album “Odd Socks” (collection of B-sides, unreleased home sessions and live tracks)
  
• UK psych /indie rock /shoegaze solo project Purple Ocean Flower “Facing Away” single
  
• London-based lo-fi /shoegaze /indie rock project of Seattle/Exeter duo (The Devil and Her Chauffeur, and former side project Echodrone), Seems Like Forever “Listen” title track of the debut 7″ single “Listen”
  
• Oregon-based indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop recording project of Brandon Setta, aka You Wish “Spun Sugar” single
  
• Virginia Beach, VA shoegaze /dream pop project Sonic Blue “Juseyo” single
  
• New York dream pop /shoegaze band Head Sound “Optimistic” single
  
• Philadelphia-based shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop one-man act DAODA “Feel For You (2024 Mix)”
  
• Los Angeles dream pop /groungegaze /indie rock duo Drauve “Bluebird” single
  
• Italian dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock solo project of Francesco Di Marco (one half of the duo Electric Drama), aka Hinkfuss “No in-Between” single from the upcoming debut album ‘’Follow Shadows”
  
• Toronto, Ontario indie /slacker rock /shoegaze /slowcore project of Charlie Berger (Slowly, Tonemirror, With Hidden Noise, Slow Planet), DORMER “Anything and Everything” from upcoming LP “Concerning You”
  
• Austin, TX shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop quartet No Desire “Banshee Pearls” single
  
• Fortaleza, Brazil shoegaze /dream pop duo Ariel Void “Empatia” single
  
• Hartford, CT collaborative dreampop /dreamgaze studio project softlightsymphony “Find You” second single
  
• Brisbane, Australia 4-piece dream pop /shoegaze band Local Authority “Hang The World” single [Kitty Records]
• Baltimore, Maryland alternative /dream pop /shoegaze rock band Talking To Shadows “Tears” single
  
• California indie rock /post-rock /shoegaze project Blue Minute “Longing” single
  
• Montreal, Québec dream pop /shoegaze /electronic duo Diamond Day “Centre-Ville” from the first album “Connect the Dots”
  
• Leipzig post-punk /indie rock /shoegazers NIL “Changer” off the debut EP “Somewhere Nice”
  
• Los Angeles grunge /shoegaze band Sunflower Heaven “Spin” single
  
• Austin, TX alt-rock /dream pop /shoegaze 4-piece Blushing “Tamagotchi” first single off the album “Sugarcoat” [Kanine Records]
• New York slowcore /indie rock /shoegaze band Crate “Julia” debut single
  
• Leeds, UK 3-piece alternative rock /grunge /nu-gaze band Lozenge “Precious” single
  
• Noise Rock/Pop shoegaze band from San Antonio, TX. HAPPYVOID “Smear” single
  
• French alternative rock /slowcore /grunge /metal /heavygaze /shoegaze band DEAD HORSE ONƎ “Raindrops” from upcoming LP “SEAS OF STATIC”
  
• Brooklyn, NY psych /shoegaze /indie rock band Punchlove “Guilt” from the first album “Channels” [Kanine Records]
• Dublin, Ireland based folk /garage /psychedelic rock duo Thee U.F.O “Junk Funk Garbage” from the vinyl 12″ LP “Beaming A Moments Reflection” [Fuzzed up & Astromoon Records / Gelatinous Records]
• Berlin-based art rock /post-punk /garage rock band Lemongrab “Midnight Cowboy” from the vinyl 12″ LP “I spy with my little eye” [U-Bac]
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee emo /shoegaze /indie rock band Jerseybird “My God, My Son” single
  
• Polish emo /indie rock quartet Vermona Kids “Silver Tongue” from upcoming third LP “Keepsake” [Peleton Records]
• Whanganui, New Zealand indie rock /emo duo Carb On Carb “2009” from the album “Take Time” via Black Wire Records (AU) and Salinas Records (US)
  
• Montreal, Quebec alternative rock /indie rock quartet Seed Toss “Up For Grabs” from “Safe And Sound” EP
  
• London-based veteran indie rock songwriter, musician and producer (a member of Desperate Journalist, Sleeper and formerly Nightnurse, Gay Dad, Salad, Linus and many more), Charley Stone “A Scream” second track from the forthcoming album “Here Comes The Actual Band”
  
• London, UK rockn’roll /garage punk vets featuring members of Black Time, Wake Up Dead, Candy Highway and The Jazz June, Virvon Varvon “FOUNTAINS” from the cassette album “FOUR BARS OF HATE” [Girlsville]
• Basel, Switzerland indie folk duo Lost in Lona “Lose it All” new single off upcoming Autumnal album [Mouthwatering Records]
• Los Angeles-based bedroom pop /indie rock project of singer-songwriter Sophie Negrini, aka Janelane “Love Letters” title track of the upcoming LP “Love Letters” [Kingfisher Bluez]
• Portland, OR-based ambient /soundtrack /psychedelic /country /acoustic /pedal steel multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer (member of Mojave 3, Idaho Falls, & The Parson Red Heads), Raymond Richards “MONUMENT VALLEY” from upcoming LP “Sand Paintings” (featuring Calexico’s John Convertino on drums and percussions) [ESP Institute]