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• Detroit, Michigan Indie /Synthy /Dream Pop duo Bluhm “Sugar Phantom Blackout” single
  

Detroit duo returns with a well-rounded, captivating new single, scented with early 90s Cocteau Twins reverie. About a nighttime romance built on urgent yearning and dreamy surrender with hazy layers of shimmering guitars and tinkling synth chimes that glow like dreamtime neon, grounded by a vibrant and churning rhythmic foundation, to cast a palpable emotional embrace that swells with wistful, sensual and mesmerizing female vocals, restlessly longing to be reunited with a loved one, tonight.

• Dream pop /Jangle Pop /Shoegaze duo of Swiss multi-instrumentalist and composer Andy Jossi (The Churchhill Garden) and Los Angeles-based vocalist and lyricist Gretchen DeVault (The Icicles, Voluptuous Panic, and The Francine Odysseys), The Blue Herons “Fight or Flight” 3rd single from the upcoming album “Demon Slayer” [Too Good To Be True / Shelflife Records / Fastcut Records]

The Transatlantic duo slows down and illuminates the airy night with a stirring, cinematic and whimsical third single, casting a beguiling spell over the listeners. “Fight or Flight” deftly blends feathery, shimmering strums with sparkling, jangly guitar melodies, drawing out colourful, vivid images that soar into an entrancing, dazzling starlit escapism, alongside layers of uplifting, heartfelt female vocals that encourage one to slay their demons and keep moving forward every day.

• Montreal, Québec alternative rock /indie rock /slowcore band led by Markus Stahl, Goldenstar “Forget” single [OST]

Montreal‘s Slowcore group unrolls the equally burdened and mournful, as it is expressive and intimate new song, “Forget,” stirred by by the slow pace of uncluttered percussion and round bass lines, unravelling unhurried and thoughtfully in an achingly leaden sea of ​​bittersweet melodies, woven by obsessive guitar chords, tormented by restrained slivers of echoing screechy distortion, to carry a gentle, anxious, rambling call and response of vibrant, fed-up female complaints and gloomy control-centered male accusations, into the inner world of suppressed emotions.

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ambient /cosmic /minimal fingerstyle guitarist Chris Tate, aka Score “Sunburst Body” title track of the tenth long-player “Sunburst Body” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Stockholm, Sweden ambient /drone /shoegaze /analog electronic /post-rock /slowcore experimental musical project by producer Henrik Sunbring (oplen, Domus, WITXHES), ultraljud “drömmen” from the album “Tellus”
  
• South of England-based Scottish ambient /electro-acoustic /experimental pop composer-musician from Dundee (aka Glacis, Civic Hall), Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken “Nothing More Is Needed” from the upcoming LP “Framed Insects” [Sleep In The Fire]
• The Hague, Netherlands-based ambient /abstract /field recordings /jazz /experimental folk singer-songwriter Laura Kampman “Here and here” 2-track 7″ single [Futura Resistenza]
• UK suburban alt-folk singer-songwriter Sicamore “Petaluma” from upcoming LP “Halfway There”
  
• Japanese ambient folk/ indie folk singer and musician (of Pervenche), Masato Saito “Snufkin” from the cassette album “The Closet Tapes Vol.2” (collection of rare, unreleased tracks and alternative versions) [Galaxy Train]
• Carrboro, NC bubblegum /garage /psych /indie pop-rock band ENTREZ VOUS “Oh, Raquel!” from “Tell Her A Joke” EP
  
• Calgary lo-fi /noise pop /art punks (FKA Child Trespassers), Spec Realists “The Last Homely House” from the cassette album “On A Frolic Of Our Own” [Neon Taste Records]
• Melbourne new wave /indie pop-rock five-piece (previous or current members Parsnip, The Stroppies and Phil and the Tiles), Season 2 “Becomes A Dream” from the upcoming debut LP “Power Of Now” [Upset The Rhythm (UK) / Spoilsport Records (AU)]
• Austin, TX twee /indie pop outfit Touch Girl Apple Blossom “Vacation” from the upcoming LP “Graceful” [perennialdeath]
• German veteran experimental /kraut /glitch-pop /indietronica group led by Markus and Micha Acher, aka The Notwist “Snow” from the new album “News from Planet Zombie” [Morr Music]
• London-based electro-pop /wave /dream pop artist and former Deaf Club, Polly Mackey, aka Art School Girlfriend “The field” from the album “Lean In” [Fiction Records]
• Liège, Belgium indie kraut pop duo, Chaton Laveur “Brise, Brume” from “Labyrinthe” LP [Exag’ Records]
• Los Angeles post-punk /ambient gaze-pop duo, TANGIENTS – “The Ether” first single from the album “Embers”
  
• Munich, Germany surf /indie rock /psychedelic pop solo project True Blue “Place to be Myself” single
  
• Boston, MA indie rock quartet Makeout Palace “After Hours” second single off the upcoming album “Good Kissing Music”
  
• Novosibirsk-based indie rock band Lurve “4AM” from “All Bark,No Bite” EP
  
• UK 60s /power pop /jangle indie pop solo project of musician and songwriter Oliver Flanagan, aka Sorry Monks “A Little Understanding” single
  
• Makassar, Indonesia noise /indie pop solo project The Explanation Societies “Gunshoot” from “Balderdash” EP [A Single Kiss!]
• Bandung, Indonesia Indie Pop trio Beltigs “Monochromatic” single
  
• Illes Balears, Spain indie/ power pop band Marlovers “Who’s To Blame?” single [Lilystars Records]
• Jakarta, Indonesia pop duo The Cottons “Dia Datang” single
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Australian Rain” from “The Early Years” CD album compilation featuring the early digital recordings from the 2022-2023 period [Salt Mine Records]
• Germany 60s Americana /Dream Pop /Krautrock /Disco /Psychedelic Pop band Suzan Köcher’s Suprafon “Le Temps De L’amour” (Jacques Dutronc cover, 1962) from the 7″ 4-track EP “Le Temps De L’amour” [Unique Records]
• California indie rock /dream jangle pop /garage-pop singer-songwriter and musician Josh Hwang, CASTLEBEAT ”Change Your Mind (Slowed + Reverb)” [Spirit Goth Records]
• Brighton, UK indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze new solo project by Shore Dive Records label head honcho N.P. Wardell (FKA Beatastic), Marry Me Marie “Dyslexia” 2nd single from the forthcoming debut album to be released January 2027 [Shore Dive Records]
• Liverpool, UK emo /post-rock /shoegaze /indie rock band, a Lesser Version “Paith Own” from the third album “0.2 Flesh Etc”
  
• Berlin-based indie rock /shoegaze band Dusk Saffron “Erasure” single
  
• Glasgow, UK-based Shoegaze /Dreampop /Indie rock band Dayydream “Proximity” from the second “Trace” EP
  
• UK indie noise pop /shoegaze outfit Käälm – “Away” off the debut 2-track single “Away / fLOWn”
  
• Dutch emo /alternative rock /shoegaze band based in Amsterdam, Honey I’m Home “Pretty” single
  
• Tokyo, Japan alternative rock /shoegaze band RAINBOW BELTZ “Call You Back” single
  
• London, UK-based shoegazey dream pop solo project Violet UltraRay “Magnetism” single
  
• Liverpool, UK alt rock /grunge /shoegaze four-piece Doppelgänger “Spoken Suicide” from the debut “Out of the Blue” EP
  
• Lafayette, Louisiana, alternative rock /shoegaze four-piece Cashier “The Weight” from “The Weight” EP [Julia’s War Recordings]
• Philadelphia’s noise rock /shoegazers Doused “xoxo” off the new EP “sckrpnch” [The Funeral Party]
• Adelaide, South Australian 4-piece Alt-Rock /Shoegaze band DRAINING “Mourn” single
  
• Leeds, UK 4-piece kraut /noise /psych rock /shoegaze band Cellar Messiah “Sin” new single from forthcoming EP
  
• Berlin-based psychedelic post-punk band led by The Brian Jonestown Massacre guitarist Hákon Aðalsteinsson, The Third Sound “Remedy” single [Fuzz Club]
• Stockholm, Sweden kraut /spce rock /psychedelic rock band Les Big Byrd “Hökvind” from the upcoming fifth studio album “Ruin Everything” [Chimp Limbs]
• San Francisco-based bona fide Garage-Psych-Power Pop legend Kelley Stoltz “Competitive Bastard” first single from his upcoming 19th studio LP “If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now!” [Dandy Boy Records (US) / Agitated Records (UK/EU)]
• New York-based garage pop /psych folk /power pop twin duo Brian and Michael D’Addario, aka The Lemon Twigs “I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You,” 1st single from the upcoming sixth studio album, “Look For Your Mind!” [Captured Tracks]
• Leicester, UK 60s folk /psychedelic-pop band The Junipers “When She Turns” lead single from the upcoming 5th LP “The Solid and the Hollow”
  
• Nashville, Tennessee’s psych /folk /indie rockers The Medium “Where’s The Flood” from the upcoming third LP “Speaking Of The Coast”
  
• Utrecht-based, Dutch rock rock & roll /garage rock four-piece Sick Shooters “Evacuation” second track from the upcoming debut LP “Super Sonic Rock Saga”
  
• NSW, Australia psych /dream pop /indie rock duo of Trudy Bennett and Jarrin Borg, Lucille Two “What’s In My Mind?” single
  
• Soul disco-funk collaboration between legendary jazz vocalist and Indian disco pioneer Asha Puthli and NYC’s punk-chic, discodelic stars Say She She, Asha Puthli & Say She She “Pawa!” off “PAWA!” EP [Naya Beat Records]
• Surabaya, Indonesia psychedelic soul /r&b /jazz /pop trio Thee Marloes “Under the Silver Moon” from upcoming debut “Di Hotel Malibu” LP [Big Crown Records]
• Berlin-based indie folk singer-songwriter Susi Wittig, aka Like Mint “Kurz Nach Vier” from “On Second Thought” EP
  
• Long‑distance ambient /electronica /post-rock /noise /folk exchange between Scottish musician Euan Alexander Millar‑McMeeken and Japanese artist Satomimagae, YOAL “Drifting Like a Leaf into the Flames” from the LP “Gloaming” [Lost Tribe Sound]