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

• Clare, Australia lo-fi /bedroom pop /indie /dream pop band (formerly Foulness Island), Bedroom Holiday “Drive” single
  

Versatile Australian musician and composer, under his Bedroom Holiday alias, entrances us, as is usual, into his lilting throwback jangly dreampop world from which we would like never to depart, with a song about losing a loved one that wavers on mid-tempo syncopated drum beats layered by slightly sharp yet beguiling intricate drifts of wistful and nostalgic sparkling guitar melodies, to ‘Drive’ reflective anxious vocals through grief, safely home.

• Limestone Coast, South Australia indie rock /shoegaze /dreampop brainchild of Guitarist, Songwriter, and Producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “Heading High” single
  

Surfing between fuzzed-out Shoegaze textures and lush DreamPop contemplations, as in this case, the Aussie musician seamlessly carries us to wide natural prismatic boundless spaces, wandering through immersive corroborating waves that rise intensely and then quickly ebb away, amid leaving a warming sense of nostalgia and heartfelt emotions. Likewise emotive, and introspective the new song “Heading High” winds fluid ghostly synth washes with a rippling sea of shimmering guitar reflections, and vibrant twinkling weeping guitar melodies, to echo aching deep vocals, reflecting on lost love and friendships through a lens of alienation.

• Salzburg, Austria indie /shoegaze /dreampop trio Backwards Charm “Bullet” feat. Julia Sabra (of Postcards) single
  

Enriched by the bewitching Sandovalesque velvety vocal tones of Julia Sabra, the new single from the band hailing from ‘the city of Mozart’, elicits an urgent rush of sparkling forsaken guitar melodies that obsessively ripple and chime through a droning floor of rapid humming pulsing bass lines and bouncy drum beats, while whispery haunted spoken words, surge with softly anxious  falling emotions, seeking comfort from pain in the form of a ‘Bullet.’

• Paris-based ambient /neo-folk /psychedelic music solo project of American/French electric guitarist Allan J. Kimmel, aka Departure Street “The sun rose over the eastern mountain range” from the album “Shimmering Shimmering” [Wormhole World Records]
• Hong Kong-based ambient /dreampop /ethereal vocal artist and musician Anita Tatlow “Nocturnae” from “Nocturnae” EP [slow echo]
• Japanese ambient /ethereal /leftfield /electronics /experimental /classical /folk artist marucoporoporo “Cycle of Love” from upcoming album “Conceive the Sea” [FLAU]
• Irish drone ambient /doomgaze /neo-folk singer-songwriter & producer, Lisa Cuthbert “This Kind of Sin” single
  
• Birmingham, UK orchestral pop /classic rock /folk rock artist Micky Greaney “It Ain’t Easy” from the second album “And Now It’s All This” (recorded in 1995 and 1996 soon after his debut LP) CD/vinyl 12″ on Seventeen Records
  
• Manchester, UK indie folk independent singer-songwriter George Boomsma “Passing The Silence” from the LP “The Promise Of Spring”
  
• Brighton, UK-based Bossanova /psychedelic folk project of São Paulo-native singer, composer and Wax Machine band founder, Lau Ro “Onde Eu Vou” from the upcoming debut LP “Cabana” via Far Out Recordings
  
• Long Beach, CA jazz /pop /rock /folk collaborative project of producer, composer, and cult leader Chris Schlar, aka Psychic Temple “Doggie Paddlin’ Thru The Cosmic Consciousness” title track of upcoming LP “Doggie Paddlin’ Thru The Cosmic Consciousness” via BIG EGO
  
• Bath, UK indie /folk /shoegaze solo multi-instrumental artist (aka Zed-Point), Sandoval “Little Plate” single
  
• Filipino Shoegaze /Ethereal Wave /Dream Pop duo based in Dubai, WYWY “Pikit Bulag” from the debut LP “Whispers of Existence”
  
• Hastings, England shoegaze /dream-pop /psych /indie solo project of former guitarist of the band Lush, and Sing Sing), Emma Anderson “Inter Light (MEMORIALS Mix)” reimagined version via Sonic Cathedral
  
• New York electronic /new wave /dreampop project of Rafael Anton Irisarri and Benoît Pioulard, aka Orcas “Under the Milky Way” (The Church cover, 1988) off upcoming third full-length via Morr Music
  
• Bristol, UK shoegaze /dreampop band Night Swimming “Evergreen” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY slowcore /indie rock duo Sex Week “Angel Blessings” single via Grand Jury Music
  
• Los Angeles-based indie rock /dreampop /trip-hop solo project of Samira Winter, aka Winter “Sallow” single
  
• Chicago, IL-based emo /shoegaze /slowcore /indie rock songwriting project of Collin Dall, aka Prathloons “In Wintertime” from the EP “Incredible Things in High Speed”
  
• Arizona lo-fi-shoegaze-slowcore-bedroom project Frans Asthma “Wait outside” title track of the EP “Wait Outside” via Start-track.com
  
• Somerville, Massachusetts jangle pop /indie rock /folk songwriter Doug Tuttle “Draw Blood” single
  
• Atlanta, Georgia indie /slowcore /shoegaze quartet, team deathmatch “Sprain” off the 7″ single “Sprain / Brian” via Rope Bridge Records
  
• Bandung, Indonesian 5-piece jangly indie pop band Pastel Badge “Embrace The Unknown” from the cassette album “Life To The Fullest” via Lisdia Records
  
• UK lo-fi /bedroom indie pop duo Matt Groves and Sadie Parry, aka Harper “Home Again” from the upcoming debut album “The Mother Root” via Devil Town Tapes (tape) and Subjangle (CD)
  
• Indonesian indie /dreampop unit Girl and Her Bad Mood “Loves Hates Loves” single via Haum Entertainment
  
• Parisian bedroom /shoegaze /indie dreampop band Dog Park “Kaleidoscope” from the vinyl debut album “Festina Lente” [GÉOGRAPHIE]
• Swedish synth-wave/electronic music producer and songwriter Johan Agebjörn feat. Sally Shapiro “Floating In the Light” single
  
• St.Catharines, Canada 4 piece psych /dreampop /indie rock troop The Dwindles “Blue Dream” single
  
• Chapel Hill, NC hi-fi dream-pop solo project Sunbather “Trailhead” single
  
• Southampton, UK indie pop-rock duo Wynona “Sink or Swim” single
  
• Portland, OR-based fuzzy indie pop band led by Thomas Andrew, A Certain Smile “a certain smile (original)” (Aug 2005) from the album “Shame is a Bourgeois Concept (Chronologic Regurgitation)” a collection of odds and ends, a sketchbook of lost ideas and rough cuts spamming 20 years
  
• Japanese guitar pop /shoegaze /dream pop solo project, Welfare for your Disability “Sparks” from the album “World Spectator”
  
• Lacanau, France bedroom dream pop /surf pop /indie rock solo project Layday “My aquarium” from “Sun machine” EP via Spirit Goth Records
  
• UK indie rock /jangle pop band led by Johny Nocash, Echolalia “Heading For the Sun (4-track)” from the CD collection “Welcome to the Underachievers – an anthology” [1998-2002] via Broken Down Records
  
• San Francisco-based dreampop /Madchester /big beat /shoegaze /jangle pop /indie rock 4-piece Aluminum “Behind My Mouth” from the upcoming second album “Fully Beat” on Felte Records
  
• Nashville, TN indie rock /shoegaze solo project SLUSH “Too Hard Too Find” from cassette EP #3 via To-Go Records
  
• Seattle-based kraut /psych rock/dream pop /shoegaze /folk band led by founding member singer/songwriter Natasha El-Sergany, aka somesurprises “Black Field” from the sophomore LP “Perseids” on Doom Trip Records
  
• Philadephia-based lo-fi /jangle psych-pop outfit HONEY RADAR “Combat Paper” from upcoming “Ribbon Factory” LP
  
• California-based cosmic folk rock /psychedelic dance rock quartet Color Green “Four Leaf Clover” from the upcoming “Fool’s Parade” album via New West Records
  
• Los Angeles-based psych /dreampop /jangle indie pop band THE BLACK WATCH “Oh Do Shut Up (feat. Kesha Rose)” 2-track single via Dell’Orso
  
• Glasgow, Scotland indie pop group Belle and Sebastian “What Happened to You, Son?” single via Matador Records
  
• Southern California indie pop quintet THE ARMOIRES “We Absolutely Mean It” second single from the forthcoming new album via Big Stir Records
  
• Los Angeles-based 4-piece folk /dreampop /indie rock band led by Vancouver Island native Nick Thorburn, Islands “Drown A Fish” from the upcoming tenth album “What Occurs”
  
• Wales, UK jangle /folk indie pop singer-songwriter Julian Pitt, aka Armstrong “Stationary” single
  
• Victoria, Canada indie pop duo Teenage Art Scene & Talia Fay “Never Know” from the debut EP “Get off the Road”
  
• Los Angeles DIY garage folk /psychedelic rock trio led by singer/songwriter and guitarist Christopher Mercado, The Mad Walls “Who Wants To Die For Religion” from the upcoming debut LP “Have You Heard The News?” [Big Potato Records]
• Three piece 60s beat /psychedelic rock band from the Netherlands, MOON “How I Learned (To Say Goodbye)” (unreleased) from “Hurtin’ My Heart” b/w “How I Learned (To Say Goodbye)” 2-track 7″ single
  
• Seattle, WA-based shoegaze /psych-rock band New Age Healers “Radiate” from the new vinyl 12″ LP “The Spin Out”
  
• Queens, NY dream pop /indie rock /post-punk solo act Sea Shapes “Shock” single
  
• Birmingham, UK post-punk /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze singer-songwriter Oliver Beardmore “Sky Pieces (Ft. Graywave)” from “Swimming in the Light of a Cold Star” EP
  
• León, Mexican dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock band Clan de Venus “Entre las Ruinas del Pasado” single
  
• Basel, Swiss five-piece shoegaze /indie rock band Moonpools “Say Anything” from “Hide and Seek” EP
  
• San Jose, CA shoegaze /indie pop-rock 4-piece Summer Blue “With You” from 2-track Promo 2024
  
• Copenhagen-based shoegaze /dreampop /indie pop 4-piece KINDSIGHT “Killing Eye” from the second album “No Shame No Fame” via Rama Lama Records
  
• Melbourne indie rock /shoegaze /dreampop solo project of composer, musician, producer and Hatchie collaborator, Joe Agius, aka RINSE “Kiss Me (Kill Me) [feat. Hatchie]” single via Cohort
  
• Boston, MA dreampop /shoegaze trio Candeline “Angel Laughs” from debut S/T EP “Candeline”
  
• Bergen, Norway five piece indie rock /shoegazy band The Essential Ether “Lost and Found” single
  
• Madrid, Spain electronic /psych rock /shoegaze trio of producer Raúl Galán Berlanga (berlangãlan), Juan Pérez Marina (Corcobado, Sangre Fácil, L’Exotighost) and New York musician, Ryan Louis Bradley (Fearless Sons), aka The Stirrings “I Wrote This Song Just For You” single
  
• Dasmariñas, Philippines dreampop /shoegaze band AGHAM “Nalulunod Sa Lilang Tunog” from debut S/T album
  
• Gourock, Scotland grunge /indie rock /post-rock /shoegaze 4-piece Quietly Into The Night “Tornado Season” single
  
• Bonn, Germany 4-piece Indie Rock /Shoegaze band Fish in the Elevator “Down Under” single 
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah dreampop /indie rock /dreamgaze solo project A Deeper Heaven “Future Fear” single
  
• Saint Louis, Missouri emo /fuzzy shoegaze band With Glee “In Blue Spirits” single
  
• Philadelphia, PA post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Angel Ocana, aka Forest Circles “Wish” single
  
• Danish indie rock /psychedelic /dreampop /shoegaze trio CATCH THE BREEZE “Winter is Gone from the new “SPACES”
  
• Brighton, UK ambient /dream pop /shoegaze 5-piece Air Formation “Only So Much Light” off the self-titled sixth studio album via Club AC30
  
• Viennese grunge /indie rock /slowcore /shoegaze outfit Trauma Glow “Everytime I say goodbye to You” from the debut LP “About to find solace in your arms”
  
• Philadelphia, PA alt-rock /indie rock /heavy shoegaze band Farewell Days “On Display” single
  
• Texas lo-fi shoegaze /darkwave /dream pop solo project The Bradley “Loberboi” from “In Memoriam” EP
  
• London based lo-fi indie rock project of singer-songwriter Rory Sear, aka Flypaper “Old Friend” off the second EP “Another Orbit” via PNKSLM Recordings
  
• New England based modernist art-punk band Perennial “Action Painting” from upcoming third album “Art History” via Safe Suburban Home Records
  
• New York City‘s psychedelic /shoegaze /noise rock /post-punk band A Place to Bury Strangers “Don’t Turn The Radio” from “Don’t Turn The Radio/This Is All For You” 7″ single via Deadstrange
  
• Indonesian Indie Noise-Pop band based in Jakarta, Vanishing Muffins – “Honey, I Promise” from CDR EP “Central” (originally released on Shore Dive Recs) via Chaotic Pop Recs
  
• Indonesia shoegaze /twee /indie noise-pop one-man-band, Anti. – “Faster” (Instrumental demo) via Faster Records 
  
• Late ’80s/early ’90s Medway UK Garage /Punk /Pop band (featuring The Dentists members), Ye Ascoyne d’Ascoynes “Just The Biggest Thing” from the vinyl album of unreleased 1992 demo recordings “Supersonic Shoes” via Spinout Nuggets
  
• Minneapolis grunge /fuzz rock /rockn’roll band AHEM “Lapdog” from the upcoming LP “Avoider” via Forged Artifacts
  
• Stockholm-based Latino-garage-psych rock outfit Sudakistan “Machine” single via PNKSLM Recordings
  
• Miami, FL alt-rock /shoegaze / fuzzy garage /indie rock band Las Nubes “Would Be” single off the upcoming album ”Tormentas Malsanas” via Sweat Records Records
  
• Melbourne power pop /indie /slacker rock /rock’n’roll band Program “Sparks” 1st single from the sophomore album “It’s a Sign” via Anti Fade Records
  
• Denver, CO garage punk power trio, Tuff Bluff “Banishing Spell” off upcoming self-titled debut vinyl 12″ album via Snappy Little Numbers Quality Audio Recordings
  
• Atlanta, Georgia indie rock /post-punk /rock and roll band Ultra Lights “Nostalgia” from “Nostalgia b/w Clockin Out” 7″ single via Chunklet Industries
  
• Parisian folk rock /shoegaze /psychedelic rock musician and composer Pierre Lecarpentier “Inner disorder” from the EP “Lost in the sound”
  
• Yucatàn, Mexico space rock /krautrock /psychedelic rock band Mu! “Viva la Flor” single
  
• Lucerne, Switzerland indie rock /krautrock /psychedelic rock band Mono Mochi “Whatkeepsmewakingup” second single from the upcoming debut album “Oh Elsa!”
  
• French art rock /jazz /kraut /psychedelic/experimental-pop band Aquaserge “Le Saut du Tigre” first single from the upcoming LP “La fin de l’economie” via Crammed Discs
  
• Cardiff, South Wales post-punk /electronic /industrial /noise rock /psychedelic band Obey Cobra “Ten of Wands” from the upcoming second LP “Mwg Drwg” via Rocket Recordings
  
• Geneva-based, Swiss emo /psych /prog-indie-rock trio Brazen “Arms Of The Sea” from upcoming LP “Distance” [Irascible Distribution]
•  New Yorker lo-fi /punk rock /rockn’roll singer-songwriter Jean Mignon “Cause I’m Scared” from the second album “Dirty Mean Fast” via Metal Postcard Records
  
• Edinburgh, UK shoegaze /indie rock trio Swim School “Seeing It Now” new single via LAB Records
  
• Canberra, Australia based indie rock 4-piece MOANING LISA “Fainter” single via Farmer & The Owl
  
• Los Angeles emo /power pop band Tiny Stills “What’s the Point of Anything” from upcoming LP “We Really Felt Something”
  
• Indonesian post-hardcore /emo /indie rock outfit Firstrate – “Springtime” [Single] via Haum Entertainment
  
• Washington, D.C. folk /indie rock producer and songwriter Bartees Strange “IDK” from the compilation LP of previously unreleased early songs “Magic Boy” via Brassland
  
• Catskill, New York 4-piece avant Americana /psych folk band Camp Saint Helene “Memory Knows” from the upcoming LP “Of Earth and its Timely Delights”
  
• New York based experimental pop solo project of flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist (founding member of yMusic, The Knights, NOW Ensemble, and the Berlin-based Between Worlds Ensemble), Alex Sopp “Door” off the debut album “The Hem & The Haw” via New Amsterdam
  
• North Carolina’s traditional folk storyteller Jake Xerxes Fussell “Going To Georgia” off upcoming fifth album, “When I’m Called” via Fat Possum