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

• Athens, Ohio 4-piece post-punk /jangle indie pop band The Laughing Chimes – “Tomorrow’s 87” 2-track single via Slumberland Records
  

Pulling from the already largely mentioned early Creation Records leanings, as the Jasmine Minks or The Loft, the Paisley Underground and the mid-80s Felt period, the young Ohio band, recently expanded to a four-piece, seamlessly craft a deft melt of languid psychedelic sheen and a rich jangling guitar pop vein, equally sharp and harmonic, invigorated by a creative and loosen drum/bass rhythm section and enriched with a rather charismatic and enthralling vocal delivery ala Michael Stipe. The brand new 2-tracker is chock full of perky, punchy and sparkling 6-string melodies, nostalgic and vibrant “Tomorrow 87”, spiralling in radiant “twisterella” like trails, layered with light glittering keyboard veils and alluring female backups from the newcomer, angsty and obsessive instead “The Apologist Effigy”, reverberating with hypnotizing outpourings of stinging chord magnetism and deeply heartfelt vocals, both conjure up impressive guitar pop songwriting prowess.

• Costa Rica dream pop /shoegaze 4-piece Adiós Cometa “FDA 94′” single
  

Less fluid and more erratic and distorted than the previous single, “FDA 94′” is a dark relationship song about hanging on to the past, that floats suspended on echoing emotive exhales of reverb-filled, scorching ringing guitar sheets, layering over slow stumbling drum beats and pulsing grumbling bass lines. whilst sad defeated vocals, lost in regretful memories, rise into aching screams before a brief shift into introspective clarity occurs, then surge again into vibrant throbbing sparkling turmoil.

• South Korea-based dreamy surf-tinged jangle /bedroom pop from Scottish musician David Skimming, Lunar Isles “After Sun” single
  

New single of delicious Surf-tinged bedroom pop, this time laced with a laidback and breezy, sun-dappled Balearic bent, hi-hat-fueled soft tight percussions caress emotive glistening guitar melodies, glittering over a reflective dithering sea of lilting twinkling vibraphone-like droplets, subtly washed in humming synths, to gently melt together over dreamy, lost, and hopeless vocals, echoed by sad distant cries, floating through fading memories of obsession and anxiety.

• Brooklyn, NY-based ambient /drone /slowcore /experimental /electronic artist A Dream Called Visiting Angels “Sleep” from “Sustained” LP [Vivarium Recordings]
• Los Angeles-based ambient /drone /experimental /psychedelic multi-instrumentalist (Hala Strana, Ulaan Khol, Ulaan Markhor, Ulaan Passerine, etc.), Steven R. Smith “Passing Winter” from the album “Olive” LP 12″ [Worstward Recordings / Soft Abuse]
• Copenhagen-based Russian/Canadian folk ballad singer/songwriter aka Chinawoman, Michelle Gurevich “Speechless” single
  
• Toronto, Canada shoegaze /dream pop /post-rock /slowcore project of multi-instrumental musician-artist Charlie Berger, aka With Hidden Noise “Embrace” (Low cover) part of V/A “Nothing But Heart – A Tribute to Low” cassette compilation via Candlepin Records
  
• Czech experimental /ambient /post-rock /dream-pop /doomgaze / shoegaze quartet Manon Meurt “Marrow” from the new LP “Unravel” on Minority Records
  
• Copenhagen lo-fi /experimental /hypnagogic pop /folk singer/songwriter and producer Fine “Remember the Heart” from the upcoming debut “Rocky Top Ballads” LP 12″ [Escho]
• Sydney-based melodica dub /hip hop /breaks /post-punk /experimental pop trio of Amelia Besseny and Altered States Tapes’ founder Cooper Bowman (both of ritualistic ambient-pop duo Troth) along with Yuta Matsumura (Low Company), aka Th Blisks “Enchancity” from the upcoming sophomore LP “Elixa” [Efficient Space]
• Berlin-based ambient /jazz /shoegaze /trip-hop /psych /experimental electronic artist exael, aka Naemi “Couch Angel w/ Arad Acid & Huerco S.” from “Dust Devil” 2xLP 12″ [３ＸＬ]
• Antwerpen, Belgium electronic synth-pop brother duo Jan Matthé & Sis Matthé, aka Stacks – “Run Away” from upcoming vinyl 12″ album “Want” via Knekelhuis
  
• Manchester, UK acid house /cosmic disco /psychedelic rock /electronic producer Lewis Olsen, aka Psychederek “Pacific State” (808 State, 1989) from upcoming “ALT!” hand stamped 12″ EP [Sprechen]
• Mexico City lo-fi /minimal /folkgaze /indie folk singer-songwriter Lake Michigan “Rituals” from the cassette album “La Madrugada” [Start-Track]
• Brooklyn, New York indie folk band Aisle Knot “Someone to Love” title track of the upcoming LP “Someone to Love” via Window Sill Records
  
• Brighton, UK-based indie-pop project of Dolly Mixture former member and Spelt singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist RACHEL LOVE “What Was It For” from the album “Lyra” via The Cat Collects
  
• Sandbach, UK jangle /indie /power pop solo project of singer-songwriter Paul Hughes, aka The Candy Strypers “Goldilocks”
  
• London-based singer-songwriter, co-founder and frontman of the late 70s punk group Subway Sect, Vic Godard “La maison où j’ai grandi” (French Chanson version of the 1966 Adriano Celentano classic) from upcoming LP “Everybody’s scared now” via GNUInc
  
• Adelaide, Australia indie folk /art-pop trio led by songwriter, singer, and guitarist Sam Wilson, aka Wake In Fright “Heaven” (Talking Heads cover) from the EP “Live in Tokyo”
  
• Chicago, IL power /jangle /indie pop musician and composer Kai Slater, aka Sharp Pins “Race for the Audience” from the upcoming second LP “Radio DDR” via Hallogallo Tapes
  
• New York genre-bending neo-glam band founded by songwriter-poet Jordan D’arsie [Women of the Night] and Aaron Mika [Televisionaries] later joined live by Supremo Massiv [Revel in Dimes], Dream Pony “Synthetic Love” from the vinyl album “Suspicion Today” via FOLC RECORDS
  
• Rochester, Minnesota two-piece dream pop band Vansire “Love You All the Same” single
  
• Saskatchewan, Canada psych /indie surf pop band Beach Body “Commons” single
  
• New York indie rock-pop band fronted by singer/bassist Shannon Wise and guitarist/producer Max Shrager, The Shacks “Trip To Japan” from upcoming retrospective LP “Big Crown Vaults Vol.2” via Big Crown Records
  
• San Diego, CA-based ethereal /dream pop /indie rock-pop project led by Marlo Smith and Joshua McCleskey, Please Ask for Paul “The Dove” single
  
• Tokyo, Japan dream pop /indie rock band The Mighty Project ”Easy Way Out” single on Spirit Goth
  
• US/Ukraine transatlantic 60s /indie rock /guitar pop /prog /psychedelic pop music collaboration between Lane Steinberg  and Alex Khodchenko, aka 8X8 “Loneliness (W/Rebecca Ona)” from the CD album “Life During Wartime”
  
• Toulon, France indie pop/psych-pop band led by Alexandre Telliez-Moreni (Toolong Records founder), EL BOTCHO “Au Fond Des Bois” from the cassette 4th album “Le Salto” via Ganche Records
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden indie rock quartet Great Hare “Fresh Air” single
  
• Los Angeles-based  lo-fi / rock roll /dreampop singer-songwriter Justus Proffit “Gods Children” from “Taking out the Trash” LP
  
• Glasgow, UK experimental /dreampop /art-pop singer, songwriter and performer LUKI “Seven Years Below the Flowers” single via Staying Out Records
  
• Montreal, Québec shoegaze / dream-dark pop quartet Ultramarine “L’imposteur” single
  
• Nashville, TN based New Wave /Indie Rock /Post-Punk band Palm Ghosts “Pulse” single from “Façades 1 – Escape” EP [Sweet Cheetah / Poptek Records]
• Miami, FL post-punk /shoegaze /indie rock band Airhockey “Oscuridad” single
  
• Leeds, UK 4(+1)-piece late 2012 formed, noise-pop /synth electro-punk outfit Girl One And The Grease Guns “Made Out Of Perspex” from the retrospective ltd CD compilation “Tape Recorder Mutations : Lost & Found 2013-2019“
  
• Greek psych /indie-pop group formed in 1991, Next Time Passions “Not Here Anymore” from S/T LP “Next Time Passions” via Make me Happy Records (Greece), Shelflife Records (USA), and Fastcut Records (Japan)
  
• Depok, Indonesian jangle indie pop DIY solo project of Addil, aka Race “Begone” from the debut cassette album “Half Men, Half Sympathy” via Chaoticpop Records, Faster Records, & Subjangle
  
• Greek four-piece indie jangle pop band from Thessaloniki, Secret Postcards “My Ghost” from the upcoming 10″ vinyl EP “The Way Back” via Old Bad Habits Label (GR) & Jigsaw Records (US)
  
• Oakland, CA indie pop band fronted by Yea-Ming Chen, aka Yea-Ming and The Rumours “Ruby” off the upcoming vinyl LP “I Can’t Have It All” [Dandy Boy Records]
• West Wiltshire, UK jangle fuzz /indie rock duo Tom Brown (of Teenage Tom Petties) and Rob Fawkes, Rural France “Guideropes” from the sophomore vinyl 12″ LP “Exactamondo!” via Meritorio Records
  
• Montreal, Quebec art rock /indie /psych pop band Corridor “Pellicule” off the fourth album “Mimi” via Sub Pop Records
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden post-punk /synth-pop /indie rock 4-piece BEVERLY KILLS “Sunset Drive” first single from the sophomore LP via Welfare Sounds & Records
  
• Austin, TX dream pop /shoegaze band Allwax “Lansing” single
  
• Miami, FL dreamy fuzzy shoegaze band Shivva “Asterisms” (demo)
  
• Tokyo, Japan experimental pop /shoegaze /dreampop /electronic musician and composer OTOM “Starbright” new single
  
• Munich, Germany-based US Psychedelic /Shoegaze solo project HAYIEN “Rush” single
  
• Cassadaga, FL dream pop /shoegaze band led by Matthew Messore, aka Cathedral Bells “Overdrive” single on Spirit Goth Records
  
• Saint Petersburg, Russia shoegaze /alternative quintet LAAVU “Never” from the album “Escape”
  
• Perth, Australia jangle /dream pop /shoegaze music project of Steve Matzkov, Seven Hour Days “Ambered Moments” single
  
• Japanese emo /shoegazing band from Tokyo, KILDREN “Icymoon” from “Sundance / Icymoon” debut single
  
• Brighton, UK Post-punk /Post Rock /Shoegaze / Indie Rock band Sea Of Days “Flying High” from the CD “Water/Air” EPs via Shore Dive Records
  
• Japanese nature shoegaze orchestra, PLANT CELL “Botanical Shower” from the album “Botanical (High-Resolution Audio)”
  
• Harrisonburg, Virginia-based Iraqi grunge /shoegaze solo project nabeel / نبيل  “wela wahed – ولا واحد” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY shoegaze /indie rock band Rat Palace “Look My Way” from the debut cassette album “Dust Free Home” via Candlepin Records
  
• Edinburgh, UK post-punk /post rock /shoegaze duo Quiet, The Art “Monochrome” single
  
• Virginia Beach five-piece noise rock /shoegaze band ALISON BLUE “Away” from the debut EP “Blue Velvet”
  
• Brooklyn, NY noise rock /heavy shoegaze band Glaring Orchid “Take A Drive” from “I Hope You’re Okay” via Candlepin Records (tape) and juliaswarrecs (vinyl)
  
• Santa Maria, CA alternative /indie rock /grungegaze band Roving “Midnight Shimmer” off the debut LP “Spindrift” via Really Rad Records
  
• Los Angeles, CA 4-piece alt-rock /shoegaze /grungegaze band Salt+ “Misry” from the cassette EP “Closer To Death” 
  
• Massachusetts alternative-rock /grunge /indie rock /shoegaze band, Broken Head “Bending Up” single via Sunday Drive Records
  
• Los Angeles-based shoegaze /trip-hop /dream pop project of Cold Shower‘s musician and producer Chris King, aka KAI TAK “Flood the Harbour (ft. There’s Talk and Tamaryn)” single
  
• Munich, Germany 3-piece psychedelic /krautrock band HODO GAIA 保土谷化 “Collarbones” debut 2-track 7″ single via Permakultur Schallplatten
  
• Berlin-based post-punk /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band led by the Icelandic musician Hakon Aðalsteinsson, The Third Sound “Wasteland” from the new album “Most Perfect Solitude” via Fuzz Club
  
• Oporto, Portugal gaze kraut psychedelic trio, 10000 Russos “Demokratia”
  
• Adelaide, Australia 3-piece Synth /Psych /Drone /Reverb /Fuzz / Delay band Night Rites “Black Diamond” single
  
• Australian wave /indie /psych-pop all-girl 4-piece from Melbourne, PARSNIP “Papier Mache” from the second LP “Behold” via Anti Fade and Upset The Rhythm
  
• Swiss lo-fi /twee-pop /garage punk duo SUN COUSTO “I Don’t Wanna Talk” from upcoming cassette LP “Imaginary Girls” via Chrüsimüsi Records
  
• Clermont Ferrand, France twee /garage pop trio The Wendy Darlings “Ridicule” from the third album “Lipstick Fire” vinyl 12″ via Lunadélia Records
  
• Japanese noise /indie rock /power pop quartet The Sleeping Aides And Razorblades “HEART OF DARKNESS” from “SAVE THE RIGHT THING” 7″ EP via KiliKiliVilla
  
• loria Travesi y sus Hijos Cantan · “Pobre Adán! (1967) off V/A ” Demoler! Demoler! Demoler!” vinyl LP compilation of the first independent record label in Peru and South America, Disperú via Munster Records
  
• London-based 60s jazz /Hammond /R’n’B /Soul /R’n’B multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter PM Warson ‘Right Here, Last Night’  from 2-track ‘Right Here, Last Night’ / ‘Retrace The Steps’ 7” single via his own label FYND, distributed by Acid Jazz
  
• New York indie /dream-pop /psych-pop quartet CRUMB “The Bug” single
  
• Pacific Grove, CA indie rock /dreampop /psych-pop trio Pleasure Nature “In My Dreams” from the LP “Nightmare State/Television Choir”
  
• Philadelphia-based alternative indie rock rock duo NOXANTES “Touch What’s Wrong” single
  
• Edinburgh-born, Manchester-based dream pop /indie-folk duo Quiet Houses “Call You Later” single via LAB Records
  
• Ottawa, Canada indie soul/psych-folk songwriter Robin Kenny “Old Man” single