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

• Chattanooga, TN garage /indie rock /jangle /power pop project of Matt Addison, aka Mythical Motors “To Waves Unknown” from the new album “Travelogues and Movie Stills” [Repeating Cloud]

Through I don’t know how many albums, honestly, I’ve lost count, the longtime prolific project by Matt Addisson delivers a Guitar pop/Rock sound that strikes a fine balance between unrefined lo-fi flair and infectious lilting harmonies, where a brilliant, never redundant concoction of bittersweet melodies, catchy riffs, compelling choruses along with moving and thoughtful vocals, seemingly both lightweight and dreamy, radiate deep emotional sincerity, to seamlessly hit the mark with nostalgia and spontaneity. Fifteen songs take us on a heady rollercoaster ride of warm, ecstatic jangle pop with 60s floral scents, intoxicating sunshiney power-pop and effervescent 90s indie-rock, to listen to effortlessly on repeat, from an artist that seems to possess the secret potion for an inexhaustible, captivating songwriting artistry.

• Düsseldorf-based Indian synth-pop /dream pop duo Us and I “Crushed” single
  

After almost 4 years of absence, the India-native Electronic Dream-Pop duo, now relocated to West Germany, resurfaces, surprisingly, with a nostalgic, bittersweet midtempo new song, draped in swirling arpeggiated atmospheric synths, alongside brassy wanderings and crisp guitar shimmers, to infuse a forlorn neon-lit ambience around wistful, dreamy vocals, longing, falling, then bursting into a vibrant emotional outpouring about escaping a dream before being crushed to death by it.

• South Frontenac, Ontario, lo-fi acoustic /shoegaze /indie folk singer-songwriter Benjamin Oakley, aka Sun Parker “Swan” single
  

The unfortunately not so prolific home recording shoegaze-y, atmospheric folk project from Ontario returns, after around a one and a half year hiatus, to immerse the listener in an entrancingly safe introspective aura, elicited by hypnotic folksy rhythms of strummed guitar, elastic lilting bass pulses, and emotional breaths of slightly tense reverbs, to echo and swirl around sad, fragile whispery yet vibrantly radiating vocals, taking time to adjust to a new mental state, before slowly drifting out of earshot whilst repeating “clean it up, minimize the things you find, the things you hide.”

• West Yorkshire, UK ambient /pastoral /post-rock /folk group led by Richard Adams (Hood co-founder), The Declining Winter “You Are Not Forgotten” from the 2-track single “You Are Not Forgotten / Final Days” (work in progress tracks taken from an upcoming as yet untitled album)
  
• Perth, Australia ambient /post-rock /slowcore project of a member of the early ’90s band Bluetile Lounge, Howard Healy and collaborators, RARES “Easterly” from the new EP “Idols to time unkind”
  
• New Jersey psych-indie rock project of Kevin Basko, aka Rubber Band Gun “Wait, Hate, Talk” single from upcoming LP “Haters and Lovers” [Historic New Jersey Recordings]
• Glasgow, UK indie rock /folk songwriter Kim Grant, aka Raveloe “Backbone (demo)”
  
• Northern New Mexico-based ambient /drone /shoegaze /dream pop duo Tan Cologne – “Cloud of Mirrors” from the upcoming LP ” Unknown Beyond” [Labrador]
• Austin, TX-based ambient /dream pop /shoegaze solo project of Haley Davidson, Dottie “Adoration” single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden ethereal/dream pop /dark pop artist Stainwasher “Drying” [Silver Firs Remix] original revisited by Bern-based, Swiss indie folk duo Silver Firs [Oh, Sister Records]
• Arizona-based Ambient /Shoegaze /Sadwave /Dream Pop project of Citlali (Sol) from the duo Crescent Days, c h e r r y b u l b “s u n b u r s t s w e e t n e s s” from the debut LP “AURALWAVES”
  
• New York ambient /synth-pop /dark pop DIY producer, Death Hags “Orphée 53” trom the upcoming album “Big Grey Sun”
  
• Los Angeles minimal electronic /dream pop duo of Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Max Foreman formed in 2013, BOUQUET “Moon Was Made” 2nd single from the upcoming “Spellbreaker” LP
  
• Ireland-based folktronica /indie rock /dream pop group The Parachute Testers “Halfway To Everywhere” title track of the forthcoming The Parachute Testers’ debut album
  
• Christchurch, New Zealand electronic /alt-pop /dream pop quartet Yumi Zouma “Bashville on the Sugar” single
  
• Californian shoegaze /jangle dream pop solo project of San Bernardino‘s musician Manuel Joseph Walker, aka ❀ Foliage ❀ “You Never Know” 2-track single
  
• Jakarta, Indonesia pop duo The Cottons “Lentera” single
  
• Japanese girly indie guitar pop band led by London-based Aya Nakagawa (brainchild of Colenimo clothing shop & fashion brand), Poussin* “Boy Friend” single [Clover Records]
• Indianapolis, Indiana five-piece noise pop /psychedelic rock band Living Dream “Absolute Devotion” title track of “Absolute Devotion” EP 12″ [Inscrutable Records]
• Oregon-based, Leeds, UK-born, Sarah Records-affiliated indie /noise pop group founded in early 90s, BOYRACER “Fool Around With” from the 2004 album “Fool Around With…” (Originally released as a one-sided 12-inch EP on the German label Parapop)
  
• New Jersey garage-pop /folk /jangle-pop band Lightheaded “Same Drop” from “Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!” LP [Skep Wax (UK) / Slumberland Records (US)]
• Adelaide, Australia dream pop /shoegaze /new wave /post-punk project Air Belgrade “Progression (2019)” from the 2-track single “Air Belgrade”
  
• Lille, France Shoegaze /Post-Punk band, Belljars “Cathodic Sun” from the upcoming s/t album [Hidden Bay Records / Araki Records]
• Naarm/Melbourne-based synth-pop project by Sarah Hardiman (LOU/ Brick Head/ ex DEAF WISH) in collaboration with Mikey Young (The Green Child / Eddy Current Suppression Ring/ Total Control), MOON RITUALS “Turn The Wheel” from the upcoming LP “Aura” [Poison City Records]
• Chicago-based Rock & Roll /Psych-Pop band Post Animal “Last Goodbye” from upcoming LP “Iron”
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden jangly indie pop band The Sun Days “Sky Sometimes” single (2025)
  
• Massachusetts indie pop duo Jeanines “On And On” from upcoming LP “How Long Can It Last” [Skep Wax (UK) / Slumberland Records (US)]
• Tel Aviv jangle-indie-pop band, Shoken Boys “Fallen Tree” from the upcoming second LP “Night Flight” 12″ [Old Bad Habits Label]
• Veteran Swedish indie rock /post-punk /new wave band Cut City “This Side of Never” from “UNICORN BLOOD” EP
  
• Philadelphia-based shoegaze /dream pop /guitar rock band The Julies “The Heartbreak Life” single [Lost In Ohio]
• Perth, Australia electronic /indie /dream-pop solo project Blood Knows “Lemons” from “Ivy’s Trip” EP, fourth of the label’s 2025 CD EP series [Too Good To Be True Records]
• Detroit, Michigan Dream Pop duo Bluhm “When You Come Over” single
  
• Seattle, WA dream pop /shoegaze duo Fotoform “Shifting Sands” from the LP “Grief is a Garden (Forever In Bloom)”
  
• Los Angeles-based post-rock /shoegaze trio Osnova “Verity” single [Dune Alter]
• Australian ambient /shoegaze /dream pop /shoegaze musician (one half of In Virtual Skies), Michael Freckelton “Groundhog Day – 2025 Remix” from “Stellar Remains” EP
  
• Nottingham, UK post-rock /dream pop /shoegaze solo project After Daylight “Anchored In Reality” from “Anchored In Reality” EP
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah indie rock /dreamgaze /shoegaze solo project of musician, producer and composer Marc Wheeler, aka Deeper Heaven “High” from the upcoming EP “High”
  
• Toronto slowcore /post-rock /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze band Mount Mural “Froze” single
  
• NYC shoegaze /slowcore /dream pop band Neon Wire “Wasting” debut single
  
• Tokyo, Japan alt /noise rock /shoegaze music collective killmilky – なにもかも月に似ている- from the upcoming LP 生きたい
  
• London-based alt-rock /dreamy shoegaze trio Hazy Waters “Attention” single
  
• US indie rock /noise pop /shoegaze band Host Family “Pine-Sol” new single off upcoming EP “extended play” [Pleasure Tapes / Candlepin Records]
• North Alabama 4-piece indie rock /heavy shoegaze band No Culture “Wet Blanket” from the second “Blue Behind Heaven” EP
  
• Oakland, CA 4-piece shoegaze /dream-pop band Night School “Time Lapse” from the EP “For Keeps” [Graveface Records]
• Durham, NC indie rock /slacker rock /noise rock /shoegaze band Applefield “Palmira” single
  
• Portland, OR grunge /slowcore /doomgaze /shoegaze band  “Witness” from the upcoming LP “Tower”
  
• Toronto slowcore /post-rock /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze band Mount Mural “Froze” single
  
• Minneapolis indie rock /shoegaze band Two Harbors “Can’t Shake This Dream” title track of the forthcoming LP “Can’t Shake This Dream”
  
• Flint, Michigan indie rock /slowcore /shoegaze band Greet Death “Country Girl” from the upcoming LP “Die In Love” [Deathwish Inc.]
• Italo/Greek  noise pop /shoegaze / psychedelic rock duo based in London, Monochromatic Visions – ”Not Your Kind” from the EP “Change Who You Are”
  
• Philadelphia noise-electro-psych-dream-pop duo of long-time collaborators Grady Perez-Ruiz (of shoegaze outfit Un.Real) and multi-project artist Tom Lugo (Panophonic, Stellarscope, Heliocentric Overdrive, Cielo Oceano), aka MAYU “something good will come” single [ 3 Robots Records / Patetico Recordings]
• Berlin-based indie rock /shoegaze /dream-punk project of German musician, producer and Blackjack Illuminist Records head, Alexander Donat (a.k.a. Vlimmer, Leonard Las Vegas, Feverdreamt, Infravoids), aka Fir Cone Children “Madness!” from “Gearshifting” LP [Blackjack Illuminist Records]
• Cincinnati, Ohio chamber pop /wave /post-punk DIY band Artificial Go “Circles” from the upcoming second LP “Hopscotch Fever” [Feel It Records]
• North East of England 60s psychedelic garage soul trio Thee Strawberry Mynde “Reflections” from “Reflections” E.P. produced by The Prisoners‘ Graham Day [Disques Rogue]
• French garage rock/egg punk outfit from Marseille, Technopolice “Hellastic Mr Pox” from the upcoming LP [Howlin Banana Records / Idiotape Records]
• Early ’90s Le Havre, France indie /garage pop band, Les Sardines “Paranoia” title track of the upcoming retrospective 7″ EP [wiaiwya]
• Wien, Austria indie rock foursome Paloma 004 “Heiteres” from upcoming debut LP “Alles fängt neu an” [Fettkakao]
• Philadelphia-based indie rock band Fib “You Ruined Everything” off the incoming debut album “Heavy Lifting” [Julia’s War Recordings]
• New Orleans, Louisiana funk /art-rock /indie pop duo The Convenience “Waiting For A Train” from the LP “Like Cartoon Vampires” [Winspear]
• Scottish alt /indie rock trio Swim School “Alone With You” single [LAB Records]
• Washington, DC-based trip-hop /downtempo /electronic music producer and co-founder of the legendary act Thievery Corporation, Eric Hilton “Leave It All (feat. Puma Ptah)” from the upcoming compilation LP “Midnight Ragas” [Montserrat House]
• Camden, Maine indie rock /indie folk singer-songwriter Louisa Stancioff “Strange Currencies” (R.E.M. cover)
  
• Melbourne, Australia indie folk trio Folk Bitch Trio “The Actor” single [Jagjaguwar]
• Bristol, UK indie folk duo Mumble Tide “Good On The Inside” from the upcoming LP “Might As Well Play Another One” [Breakfast Records]