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

• Indonesian C-86 /jangle /indie pop band The Lousy Pop Group “Simple Pleasures” single on shiny happy records
  

Taking its name from 1991’s  7″ single by The Wake, the Indonesian combo crafts an endearing Indie-Pop of delicate, emotional and innocent melodic sensibilities, rife with refreshing Sarah Records scents, perfectly at ease in these first capricious days of spring. “Simple Pleasures” leads us through introspective, nostalgic longings for a bike ride on a sun-strewn cloudy day, scattered by sharp, wistful, obsessive jangly guitar melodies, racing gently, over a flowing trail of low humming bass lines and soft skipping drum patterns, along with dreamy sad vocals looking forward to shared good times with a loved one.

• Washington D.C. dream pop / indie rock / indie folk band Color Palette “Pacing Like a Lion” from “Pacing Like a Lion” EP on Enroute Records
  

D.C. band led by singer, musician & composer Jay Nemeyer moves on diverse hues of emotive and introspective Indie Rock sounds, rarely repeating themselves from one release to another, while maintaining a unique catchy, never predictable, melodic quality. After the successful dreamgaze jaunt of the previous single “Dreams”, the lead and title track explores still nostalgic, yet more euphoric and racing synth-colored soundscapes, that bounce on marching and bombastic drum beats, chugging bass lines, topped by warped zapping and whimsical synth strains, laced with frenetic fluttering melodies, cut through by sparse abrasive guitar riffs, around high angst vocal fear, “Pacing Like a Lion” before hitting the stage to rock and roll.

• Dublin, Ireland-based indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze 4-piece Blue Slate “Wipers” single
  

A miss from the last, perhaps, too invasive Bandcamp Friday, we recover the new single from the Irish quartet, who, seemingly departing from an originally grungey-infused sound of the first EP, to trigger MBV-tinged shoegaze leanings. Introduced and interspersed by reflective strumming atmospheric cinematic moments, “Wipers” is awash with a dense, turbulent and fuzzed-out wall of sound that undulates and swarms, with dreamy nostalgia, across distant and floating wispy vocal euphoria and despairingly beautiful melodies, falling in love amid sudden outbursts of angsty distortions.

• UK ambient / drone /experimental collaboration, The Leaf Library vs Kemper Norton “Iris” from “RENTAL YIELDS: VOLUME FOUR” Manchester’s homeless charity compilation [Front & Follow]
• UK based Australian born ambient /ethereal drone /experimental project of vocalist, musician and ethereal soundscaper, Penelope Trappes “A Seagull Learns To Sleep Alone” from the album “Heavenly Spheres” [Nite Hive]
• Cairo, Egypt ambient /hip-hop /trip-hop /electronic multi-disciplinary artist Dijit “Leban” off of “The Room” LP [YOUTH]
• London, UK psych /electronic /folk band Stick In The Wheel “The Cuckoo VIP (EAN remix)”
  
• Indie folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in East London, LILA TRISTRAM “Circles II”
  
• Bristol, UK indie pop folk guitar project of Roxy Brennan (AKA Radisson Blue), AKA Two White Cranes “It’s on me” new single
  
• Melbourne, Australian jangle /indie pop songwriter (former The Ocean Party and Ciggie Witch member), Lachlan Denton “Lucas” from the album “Furnishings” on Bobo Integral
  
• London-based indie folk band led by British songwriter and composer Oly Ralfe, Ralfe Band – “Pale Fire” from the Ralfe Band’s upcoming album “Achilles Was A Hound Dog” on Talitres
  
• San Francisco, CA bedroom drone pop /shoegaze /neo-psychedelic solo project, BLACK THUMB “Walk On By” from upcoming cassette album “ The Flying Propeller Group” on Dandy Boy Records
  
• San Francisco, CA indie /dream pop /slowcore collective led by singer/guitarist Karina Gill, CINDY “Et Surtout” from the new 4th album “Why Not Now?” via Tough Love and Mt. St. Mtn.
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark indie-post-rock-folk-chamber-rock 7-piece group Quiet Sonias “Sparks” the first single of the upcoming full-length debut album “QS” on PinkCottonCandy
  
• Lisbon, Portugal ambient /alt country /shoegaze /dream pop solo project of Ricardo Fiel, aka MOON COWBOY “The Longest Road” from the fundraising EP “Go Baby Go”
  
• Melbourne, Australian bedroom pop /indie rock solo project of Sean O’Donoghue AKA Sick Leave “Us” first single
  
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi surf rock /shoegaze /dream pop solo project Beach Novels “Stall Out” off the LP “Warm Hair”
  
• Gloucester, MA based psych-folk /dream pop /jangle pop project of Michael Telles (Fka Night Heron), aka 3 A.M. Again “No Record of You Here (extra track)” from the album “Cherry Street (extended edition)” ltd. CD edition on Subjangle
  
• Ottawa, Ontario bedroom /dream pop /indie pop solo project FROWN LINE “Come Around” the title track of the new cassette EP “Come Around” on Lauren Records
  
• L.A.-based lo-fi /bedroom /dream /psych pop solo project Coolhand Jax “8th & 84th” (single) on Spirit Goth Records
  
• Newcastle, Australia jangle /indie rock 4-piece VACATIONS “Next Exit” new single via Nettwerk Music Group
  
• Fresno, CA indie /dream pop duo Paradise Blossom “Forever, with you” single on BIRTHDIY.
  
• Queens, NY surf /indie /dream-pop singer-songwriter Dayaway “Ocean Blues” single
  
• London, UK based indie pop girl power trio GIRL RAY “Hold Tight” from upcoming third LP “Prestige” on Moshi Moshi
  
• Miami, FL shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop 4-piece AIRHOCKEY “Always Late” new single
  
• Spanish jangle /power pop /post-punk /punk trio from Pamplona, Tatxers “Paperezko tigrea” from s/t album on Flexidiscos
  
• 1979 established influential Sydney-via-Newcastle, Australian experimental rock /post-punk /sophisti-electro-dance-funk-pop band PEL MEL “Love On A Funeral Pyre” from upcoming 12″ vinyl 6-track EP “Late, Late Show” (unreleased mid-’80s taped session) [Efficient Space]
• Leeds, UK dream pop /dreamwave /electro-folk duo Lines of Flight “Becoming Bear” lead single from the forthcoming EP “More Than Human”
  
• London, UK-based experimental electronic-rock project from the guitarist of Essex post-rock outliers The Wolfhounds, AKA Dragon Welding “The Dark (Edit)” from “The Dark” E.P. on Dimple Discs
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based new wave /indie rock 4-piece Stutterboy “False Dam” the third single of Stuterboy’s second album
  
• Washington DC-based post-punk /new wave /indie rock DIY project of writer and producer Mike Toohey, AKA Irish Basement “Critical Issues” from the debut album “Heaven or Hell”
  
• London-based Northern Irish/Dutch alt /indie rock duo Fräulein “Brand New” from the upcoming “Pedestal” EP via Submarine Cat Records
  
• Houston, TX indie rock /power-pop solo project K. Campbell “Neil & Joni” from the ltd. lathe cut 7″ single “Felt / Neil & Joni” with Heart Shaped via Poison Moon Records
  
• Oslo, Norway based Indie Noise Pop band led by Christian Dam, The Age of Colored Lizards “Don’t Break Me” from the 4th album “Hang On” via Sotron Records
  
• Manchester, UK scuzz-pop band SUMOS “Small Talk” from the upcoming debut album “Surfacing” on Meritorio Records
  
• Paris-based, North American/French indie rock duo Special Friend “Bête” from the upcoming 2nd album “Wait Until the Flames Come Rushing in” co-released by Hidden Bay Records (FR), Howlin Banana Records (FR) & Skep Wax (UK)
  
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock 4-piece band (featuring members of mid-90s Perth’s outfit Sleepy Township), New Estate “Westie” from the upcoming fifth LP “5” on Kasumuen Records                 
• Belfast-based, Texas-bred dream pop band led by songwriter Kendall Bousquet, Heart Shaped “Felt” from the Ltd. lathe cut 7″ single “Felt / Neil & Joni” with K. Campbell via Poison Moon Records
  
• Bedroom jangle-dream-surf-pop from Scottish musician David Skimming based in South Korea, LUNAR ISLES “Light Out” off the third album “Right Way Round”
  
• Cologne, Germany dream pop /shoegaze band Hyperlilly “Yuma” debut single
  
• San Francisco based bedroom dreamy rock project of Brandon Setta, AKA You Wish “Circular Days” from the first “Y.W.” EP
  
• Minneapolis, MN indie /shoegaze /dream pop band  She’s Green “Bleed” single
  
• London, UK indie /dream pop 4-piece Bleach Lab – “Counting Empties” off the upcoming LP “Lost In A Rush Of Emptiness” via Nettwerk
  
• South Korea indie /shoegaze /dream pop band Sinope “Flower” single on JK Music
  
• Manchester UK-based indie rock /shoegaze 4-piece CRUUSH “Wishful Thinker” from the EP “Wishful Thinker” on Heist or Hit
  
• Bologna, Italy sadcore /indie rock /shoegaze trio Supervulcano “Alex” from the first EP “supervulcano”
  
• Sydney-based indie /shoegaze duo, BRIDGE DOG “Counterweight” (Single)
  
• Prague based bedroom pop /shoegaze /indie rock singer and songwriter Amelie Siba “Sweetheart Unlucky” from the cassette album “Gently Double A” on Teargarden
  
• Kyiv, Ukraine shoegaze /dream pop solo project Last Past. “flying dreams” single from the upcoming late spring/early summer album on Electricity label.
  
• Krakow, Poland experimental Dream Pop /Shoegaze band Strangers In My House “Undefined” single from the upcoming LP
  
• Canadian indie /shoegaze /dream pop duo (formerly known as Cult Classic) from Montreal, BODYWASH “Sterilizer” off the LP ”I Held the Shape While I Could”
  
• Albany, NY-based indie dream rock duo LAVEDA “We’re All Screwed” from the album “A Place You Grew Up In” on PaperCup Music
  
• Edinburgh, Scotland ambient /dream pop /post-rock /shoegaze duo Sun Shines Cold “Floods” the third and final single from the upcoming debut album “Echoes of a Former Life”
  
• Portland, Maine dream pop /noisegaze 4-piece Crystal Canyon “Judy Moody” new single
  
• Japanese shoegaze duo of Roly Poly Rag Bear members Mihoko Tanoue and Makoto Igarashi formed in 2001, Pasteboard “Shoegazer” from [7th heaven] label’s Ltd. vinyl edition of the late 2005 debut LP “Glitter” (originally released on CD via abcdefg record)
  
• Fort Wayne, Indiana bedroom pop /dream pop /shoegaze solo project quiet/creator “opium/dance music” from the album “sundowning/vol.1”
  
• UK dream-pop /shoegaze band Big Jupiter “Seagull” from the first LP “Nothing Real”
  
• Los Angeles ‘doomgaze’ quartet fronted by Michelle Malley, IRESS “Blush” single
  
• Chicago Noise Rock /Shoegaze /Dream Punk band Old Coke “Vapor Drunk” single
  
• Boston, MA emo /noise rock /shoegaze band HEAVY SLEEPER “Dragging My Feet” from “CHIME” EP
  
• St. Louis Missouri Shoegaze /Dream pop band Nightswim “Sunday Morning” from the debut 2-track single “Glimmer”
  
• South Australia-based Indie Rock /Psychedelic /Dream pop /Shoegaze one-man band Hey Calamity “The Crunch” from the sophomore CD album “Lulu” on Shore Dive Records
  
• Cardiff, South Wales-based Kraut Psychedelic Noise Rockers SOUNDWIRE “Degrees of Separation” single
  
• Malmö-based, Swedish post-punk /shoegaze /noise pop /krautrock foursome FEWS “In Head” new single off  the new LP “Glass City” on Welfare Sounds & Records
  
• London, UK noise /shoegaze /psychedelic rock 4-piece PURS “Landscape of Abandon” new single
  
• Texas-born, L.A.-based Western /r&b /psychedelic-pop artist Danny Lee Blackwell, AKA Night Beats “Hot Ghee” from the upcoming 5th LP “Rajan” on Fuzz Club Records and Suicide Squeeze
  
• UK folk-punk-emo three-piece from Bristol, Toodles & the Hectic Pity “Emotionally Unclean” from the upcoming LP “Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands” on Specialist Subject Records
  
• South-West London-based alt /indie rock trio Slaney Bay “Move On” single
  
• Christchurch, NZ indie /dream /bedroom /bedroom pop composer and multi-instrumentalist, Lukas Mayo AKA Pickle Darling “Head Terrarium” from upcoming debut LP “Laundromat” on Father/Daughter Records
  
• Los Angeles space /psych /celestial pop artist Vinyl Williams ‘Petroglyph” from upcoming cassette LP “Aeterna”
  
• Portland, OR hip-hop /indie /60s psychedelic soul project of Graham Jonson, AKA quickly, quickly “Satellite” from the upcoming LP “Easy Listening” [Ghostly International]
• Brighton, UK spaghetti western music/ surf rock /instrumental combo The Tridents “Thunderbird One” from the debut “Fiat Panda Escape Sequence” E.P.
  
• UK Ambient /Drone /Psychedelia /Folk /Library Music project of composer and multi-instrumentalist (Æthenor, Ulver, This is Not This Heat, etc), Daniel O’Sullivan “The Physic Garden” title track of the upcoming LP “The Physic Garden” third in a trilogy on VHF