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

• Oakland, CA folk /rock /indie pop band fronted by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Yea-Ming Chen, featuring Eóin Galvin (Hoxton Mob, Readyville) on lead guitar and lap steel, Ryli colleagues Rob Good (The Goods, Ryli) on bass and Luke Robbins (Ryli, R.E. Seraphin) on drums, aka Yea-Ming and The Rumours “Paper Doll” first single from the fourth studio album “Residue” [Dandy Boy Records]

Intoxicating Americana-infused hazy, droney pop from the Bay Area group, where the slightly masculine, Nico-esque, low yet powerful and elegant Yea-Ming’s vocal delivery, as usual, sweeps us into its magnetic and moving flow. “Paper Doll” dives into the fear, distress, and resentment that arise when someone tries to make or sculpt another, against their will, into their ideal person. Tight, punchy drum fills and shimmering strummed guitars shake and swell, aside reverberating, nostalgic tendrils of lap-steel, to immerse sincere, gloomy female vocals, backed by soft, cool hums, with an uncanny sense of anxiety and bitterness, “I don’t want to be here.”

• Kalmar, Sweden lo-fi /noise pop /shoegaze /indie rock project of Jens Fransson, a former member of Sack Lunch (2017-2019), aka Trash Ratio “Community Kicks” single
  

Straightforward, heartfelt, and stripped-down fuzzy indie rock, stylistically very ’90s from the Swedish musician, chock full of shivering ringing distortion, and slow dripping wistful melodies layered with a poignant, wiry sprawl of painful leads, against sincere, sorrowful yet hopeful male vocals, reconnecting with a disillusioned life after a distant existence.

• Mexico City Neopsychedelia /Shoegaze band led by Javier Mendoza, Endlesss “Retroceder” from the upcoming EP “Late Reflections” [Shore Dive Records]

Still a couple of tracks teasing the full EP from the Mexican outfit’s both gritty and atmospheric heady fusion of lo-fi neo-psychedelia and ’90s shoegaze. “Retroceder” wobbles through Madchester-tinged, shuffling grooves and thick, droning bass lines, awash in dusty, grungy in-built guitar tones, made of crunchy riffs, reverberating sharp stabs, and a final poignant soar of wailing distortion, that scrapes and melts away airy layers of soft vocal melancholia.

• New York ambient /field recordings /devotional /psych /acoustic /folk guitarist Herb Lore “Dialogue With the Mother” from the album “Mysticism” [Inner Islands]
• LA-based Filipino ambient /dream pop /electroacoustic singer-songwriter Ana Roxane “Untitled II” from the upcoming sophomore LP “Poem 1” [Kranky]
• Beirut-based shoegaze /dream pop /dark folk-tronica duo of singer-songwriter Julia Sabra (of the band Postcards) and producer-musician Fadi Tabbal, Snakeskin “Lost Today” from V/A “Land 02 (أرض ٠٢ ): A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon” fundraising compilation [Tunefork Studios]
• California acoustic folk / indie pop singer-songwriter Angelo De Augustine “Empty Shell” off the upcoming fifth album “Angel in Plainclothes” [Asthmatic Kitty]
• Toulouse, French bossanova /indie folk /psych-pop artist Laure Briard “Rocking Chair” new single [Midnight special records]
• Ontario bedroom /indie folk /dream pop solo project of singer-songwriter Chris Minielly, aka Jaguar Sun “Flutter” from the LP “Daisy” [Born Losers Records]                                                                                               
• Los Angeles-based long-running 5-piece experimental indie folk rock band Gun Outfit “So Easy to Love” from upcoming LP “Process and Reality” [Upset The Rhythm]
• Canterbury, UK experimental pop /dub /kraut /psych folk rock duo of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms, aka MEMORIALS “Bell Miner” from the second album “All Clouds Bring Not Rain” [Fire Records]
• Edmonton, Canada electronic /soulful /dream pop /indie /indietronica singer and composer Void Comp “Skin Deep” single from the upcoming new album “PASSERBY”
  
• Norwegian dream pop /synth-pop artist OTHA “Baby I Forgive You” single
  
• Manchester, UK synth-pop /electronica /avant-pop duo Andrew Hargreaves (Tape Loop Orchestra, The Boats) & Beth Roberts, aka THE MISTYS “Nervous Mirror” from “Situations | Useless Mouths” LP [Castles In Space]
• San Francisco, CA indie pop band of Morgan (The Umbrellas, Telephone Numbers), Emily and Sequoia (The Snogs), The Kitchenettes “Hummingbird” from the 3-track 7″ EP “Sunday Best” [Meritorio Records]
• Limoges, France 4-piece indie /jangle pop group Doggy “L’herbe qu’on coupe” from the LP “Un jour parfait” [Anorak Records]
• Wales, UK-based shoegazing /jangly /indie pop band Warm Coat “Slowly Fade” single
  
• Newport, UK home recording /casiotone /indie guitar pop solo project of veteran musician Rob Morgan, aka Honeybourne “Unless” from “Dreaming Winding Talking And Lying” EP
  
• Clare, Australia dream pop /indie pop recording project of Caleb Carr, aka Treechangers “Acquiesce” single
  
• Portland, OR lo-fi /dream pop /indie rock trio Golden Tiles “Peace” from the upcoming cassette album “Set Up on the Leaves” [Antiquated Future Records]
• Indonesian twee /noise /indie pop band Poplar Tree “When cheesu club sell my heart” from “Lose your perspective on pop” EP [forfun.cookies]
• West Seattle surf rock /indie pop female power trio Croutons “Mountains of Blue” from upcoming debut cassette self-titled album [Lost Sound Tapes]
• Gothenburg, Sweden, jangly-indie-punk-pop trio fronted by Mikael Carlsson (later with The Honeydrips, Kissing Mirrors, and actually with Salt Lake Alley), Dorotea “Kortedala” from “Abolish it! (2002-2005)” LP compilation 12″ [Appetite]
• Paris, France synth-pop /indie band formed in 2005, The Teenagers “Do you remember”single       
• Sydney, Australia indie /psychedelic pop four-piece The Lazy Eyes – “The One Who Got Away” from the upcoming album ‘Cheesy Love Songs”
  
• Swedish electronic /dream pop /indie duo established in 1995, CLUB 8 “There Is A Light That Seems To Go Out” new single
  
• Seoul, South Korea Post-Rock /Dream-Pop /‘Pastel Psychedelic’ four-piece Dabda / 다브다 “Dear Hope” single
  
• Poznań, Poland grunge /shoegaze /dream pop trio LULU Suicide “Bye” single
  
• South-East London-based post-punk /country /synth-pop /garage /pub-rock /multi-faceted indie band led by Georgie Stott and Joshua Harvey with George Nicholls (The Tubs, Joanna Gruesome, GN Band), William Deacon (PC World), and Louis Forster (The Goon Sax, Expiry), SUEP “Hollywood” from the debut LP “Forever” [Memorials of Distinction]
• London-born veteran singer-songwriter, guitarist, rock ‘n’ roll surrealist and former leader of The Soft Boys in the late 1970s, Robyn Hitchcock “I Am This Thing” from upcoming LP “THE CONFUSER” [Tiny Ghost Records]
• London 4-piece folk /indie guitar rock band Starter Car “Throwing Down” single [Tapete Records]
• Florida-based indie rock /slowcore solo project of William Harries, deadharrie “Trailing Off” from the upcoming LP “Eternity, Make Believe”
  
• Sacramento, CA psychedelic /indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop solo project BLOOM RITUAL “Fish Bowl” debut single
  
• Nashville, Tennessee shoegaze /indie rock band fronted by Joseph Lekkas, Palm Ghosts “Walk Into Your New Life” single
  
• London-based doompop/ grunge /shoegaze art rock duo Dandelion Graves “Blue Moons” single
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina dream pop /shoegaze solo project NAX “White” single
  
• South Australia-based Indie Rock /Dream Pop /Shoegaze one-man band of songwriter, guitarist, and producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “Ghost From the Past” single
  
• Miami, FL-based alt-rock /dream pop /shoegaze 5-piece unit Velora “Floating” (Julee Cruise cover)
  
• Paris-based experimental /art rock /dream pop /post-rock /slowcore /shoegaze band Pam Risourié “Moth” from the upcoming “I’ll never be human” LP
  
• Berlin-based shoegaze /dream rock outfit Roomer “Written By” single [Squama]
• Taiwanese kraut /noise rock /post-rock /shoegaze band formed in 2010, Manic Sheep “Dream” from “Rewind 2014” LP (unreleased 10-year-old recordings revisited and reworked by the original trio)
  
• London-based shoegaze /dream-pop band of Miki Berenyi (Lush), Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled), aka Miki Berenyi Trio “Island Of One” single [Bella Union]
• Boston, MA psych /dream pop /shoegaze band led by Reuben Bettsak, Emerald Comets “Don’t Doubt the Clouds” single
  
• Laramie, Wyoming dream pop /shoegaze /peaveygaze trio Ampule “children’s letters to god” from “life;dismissed” EP
  
• Philadelphia, PA alternative rock /shoegaze band led by Paul Whiteford, aka Cigarettes for Breakfast “The Lava Level” from “Colour Wheel” LP
  
• Antwerp, Belgium-based noise-rock / shoegaze trio OHIO MARK “Minus Two” single off of the album “OFF”
  
• Hartford, Connecticut doomgaze /slowcore /heavy shoegaze solo project Wavering “Initiation” from the debut LP “The Inexplicable Valley of Lights”
  
• Grenoble, France 5-piece shoegaze /psychedelic band Pills For Tomorrow “Echoes” single
  
• Leeds, UK goth /dream pop /grungegaze /shoegaze band Hinata “Down” single
  
• UK ambient /radiophonic /shoegaze /indie dance /minimal techno /cosmic house /analogue synth electronic producer Martin Jenkins, aka Pye Corner Audio feat. Andy Bell – “Cycle” first single from the new PCA’s album “More Songs About The Sun” [Sonic Cathedral]
• Minas Gerais, Brazil psychedelic rock duo White Canyon & The 5th Dimension “Flesh & Bones” 2-track 7″ single [Fuzzed up & Astromoon Records]
• London-based dreamy indie-noir outfit Desperate Journalist “White Rabbit” (Jefferson Airplane cover) [Fierce Panda]
• London-based psychedelic folk-rock band, The Hanging Stars “The Glasshouse” 1st single from the upcoming 6th album “Just A Day” produced with Teenage Fanclub’s Gerard Love [Loose]
• Montreal, Quebec  power pop /garage /psychedelic rock band led by Rish Dhir, Elephant Stone “Everything Evil” from the 10th studio album “ASHA” [Elephants On Parade / Little Cloud Records]
• Chatam, Kent legendary prolific Medway garage punk rock auteur Billy Childish (Steven John Hamper), since the late 70s (The Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Mighty Caesars, The Headcoats and The Buff Medways…), aka Wild Billy Childish & CTMF “House on Fire” title track of the new LP “House on Fire” [Damaged Goods Records]
• Milan, Italy rock’n’roll /power pop trio Radio Days “I Won’t Give Up” from the 2-track 7″ single “I Won’t Give Up / Bang Bang!” [Wild Honey Records]
• Leeds, UK-based dubbed-out psychedelic no-wave /spaghetti-western orchestral dance maximalist project The Group For Action & Dance, aka Group A.D. “Colour Space Transform” title track of the debut EP
  
• South-East London post-punk /noise rock /glum rock /spoken word artist Claus Mattheck “Management” from the second EP “Chapter 8” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Chicago, IL noise /indie rock trio Lifeguard “Appetite” from the upcoming “Ultra Violence / Appetite” LP 12″ [Matador Records]
• Tours, France post-rock /noise /indie rock quartet Vétuste “Halfed Face” from “Wedge” LP [Reverse Tapes]
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands garage punk quartet L.A. Sagne “Music In The Neighbourhood” from the debut LP “Good Company” [Geertruida]
• Helsinki, Finland alt-rock /power pop /indie rock five-piece Plastic Tones “Nothing Romantic” from the second full-length LP “Can You Keep A Secret” [Vox Populi (JP) / Kick Rock (FR)]
• Manchester, UK 4-piece alternative /noise /indie rock band Big Other “Elephant” single [Alphaville Records]
• Ontario folk /indie rock singer-songwriter Lennie Rayen “You Like It” single
  
• Sydney, Australia indie /shoegaze /dream pop trio EGOISM “Catching Up/YOLO” single
  
• New York ambient /indie rock /dream pop project of composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Cassie Wieland, aka Vines “Silver Springs feat. Helado Negro” (Fleetwood Mac cover) from upcoming “Covers I” EP
  
• LA-based indie folk rock musician and a founding member of the NYC art rock band the Walkmen, Peter Matthew Bauer “Blue Vein” (Lael Neale cover) [Fortune tellers]
• Portland, OR -based, Nevada City-born Americana /folk singer-songwriter Alela Diane “In My Own Time” from upcoming “Who’s Keeping Time?” LP [Loose]
• Chicago ambient /drone /glitch /dub /folk /experimental /electronica solo project of Mark Nelson (former guitarist and vocalist of ambient drone-rock legends Labradford), Pan•American “Death Cleaning” from the album “Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane” [Kranky]
• Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /dream pop artist Hollie Kenniff “Love, Lightness (Light Version)” from “For Those Who Stay” LP [Nettwerk]