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

• Italian post-punk /shoegaze trio  IN HER EYE “Something Wrong” lead single from the fourth studio album, “Death in a Morning Show”

Staples of the Italo-gaze scene since 2007, the Milan-based three-piece returns from hibernation with a sparkling new single to herald their highly anticipated 4th album. The song sprawls out with a mesmerizing, mind-bending guitar work worthy of a memorable Karl Precoda. Driving drum beats stumble along a brooding, humming bass floor over which a steady frenzy of vibrant guitar distortion squeals and squalls with seething, jarring intensity through swirling high-pitched howling leads around steadfast reverb-drenched male vocals, projecting strength and awareness through a droning vortex of doubt and distraction, to elicit feelings of support and confidence.

• Paris-based five-piece Dream Pop /Post-Rock /Art-Rock / Shoegaze collective Pam Risourié “Reborn” single from their upcoming second studio album, “I’ll never be human”
  

An enveloping, intimate acoustic second single from the eclectic French collective, about being tired and full of doubt through a lens of another’s pain and tumult. “Reborn” weaves nimbly, nestled over crisp, woody percussions, across the insistent staccato shimmer of an energetic strumming and fleeting keyboard glint, to swell in a restrained rhythmical fluid progression around layers of deeply sad, breathy baritones, alternating with light, elated dreaminess, stuck in conflicting moods between despair and hope

• London-based indie rock /shoegaze /grunge /dream pop solo project Violet UltraRay “Stellar Dreams” single
  

An infectious mélange of early-mid 90s alt-rock/grunge melodicism with buzzing shoegaze haze, rife with noisy crunching blasts of distortion and swirling, excruciating high leads, shoots airy, upbeat vocals, trilling and soaring with urgent desire, above the sad and chaotic world, into the stellar realm, brimming with light-headed ecstasy.

• Liverpool, UK, ambient /folk /experimental arthouse collective originating in 1985, The Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus “Black Is The Colour of My True Love’s Hair” single
  
• Berlin-based electronic /folk /leftfield /kraut quirky pop duo of Turkish composer Gözen Atila and French writer-musician Marie Klock, aka Anadol & Marie Klock “Les histoires véritables de Gözen et Marie” from the second album “Manivelles” [Pingipung]
• Newport, UK ambient /contemporary classical /chamber folk multi-instrumentalist, producer & composer Will Yates, aka memotone “Round The Bend (feat. guest)” from “Warm Shadows” album [Accidental Meetings]
• Southend On Sea, UK, lo-fi electronic /indie folk singer-songwriter Fran Carlyon “Nowhere” B-side of the single “Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky)”
  
• California lo-fi acoustic indie pop solo project Upsolow “Sun Gone” featuring Laura Watling (Autocollants, Tears Run Rings)
  
• Bay Ridge, New York ambient /post-rock /shoegaze /post-metal /atmospheric project of  Lowering “The Longest Path” first instrumental single after ten years
  
• Portland, Oregon electronic synthpop / dreampop duo of Hollie and Keith Kenniff (aka Helios, Goldmund), Mint Julep “Next Life”
  
• Philippines 4-piece rock’n’roll /indie pop band The Bloomfields “Tayo Na, Dali!” single  [Lilystars Records]
• San Bernardino, CA shoegaze /jangle /dreampop solo project of Manuel Joseph Walker, ❀ Foliage ❀ “U Love Me” single
  
• Shepherdstown, West Virginia dream pop /jangly /indie pop trio Wishwave “Inside” from the debut LP “Room To Grow”
  
• International slacker /jangly indie-pop collective The Kind Hills “The Kind Hills” from the new album “Little Epiphanies” [Subjangle]
• Norwegian-German jangle /indie pop duo J.O. Åleskjær and Seb Voss, aka Herr Wade “Mit Roddy Frame in der Schlange bei Pimmelherbert” single [Bureau Platiruma]
• Los Angeles-based dream pop /indie-folk project of Audrey Kang, Lightning Bug “Song for a…” from “In Between Things” EP [In Real Life]
• Glasgow, UK jangle /indie-pop duo James Hindle & Calvin Halliday, aka U.S. Highball “Copenhagen Chemistry ” from the fifth LP “God Save the Kelvin Wheelies” [Lame-O Records]
• Austin, TX twee /indie pop outfit Touch Girl Apple Blossom “Moon Was Gone” from the debut LP “Graceful” [perennialdeath]
• Los Angeles-based dark wave /dream pop /new wave /post-punk band Total Pleasure “Still Life” off “Fear Of Passing” EP [à La Carte Records]
• Los Angeles indie rock band Allah-Las “Ultramarine” 7″ single [Mexican Summer / Calico Discos]
• Copenhagen-based experimental /dream pop /psych /shoegaze /indie rock trio SSSIV “Stopped Me” from the second cassette EP “sssiv 2” [PinkCottonCandy]
• Cambridge, Massachusetts based jangle psych-pop /indie rock band fronted by Miranda Soileau-Pratt, aka The Spatulas “Close Call” from the LP “A Blue Dot” [Post Present Medium]
• Live document from 1981 of the legendary Christchurch, NZ scene, PRE Flying Nun featuring Stephen Cogle (Dark Matter, The Terminals, Vacuum, Victor Dimisich Band) & Peter Stapleton (PSN Electronic, Rain, Scorched Earth Policy, Sleep, The Pin Group, The Terminals, Vacuum), Stephen Cogle w/Peter Stapleton “Shocking Pink Clock” from “An Afternoon With Victor Dimisich” LP [Siltbreeze Records]
• Chesterfield, UK shoegaze /noisy dream-pop 5-piece band Sorebones “Recast” from the first EP “None of This is Fun”
  
• Sydney, Australia alternative rock /shoegaze /dream pop five-piece band Holy Forrest “Always Heart-Space” title track of “Always Heart-Space” EP [Shore Dive Records]
• New York noise rock /shoegaze /indie rock duo Yeah Baby “Two” (single) from the upcoming second album “Don’t Forget”
  
• Stroud, UK-based atmospheric /shoegaze /art-rock /dream-pop duo Wings of Desire “Your Twenties” single
  
• York, UK ambient /synth-wave /shoegaze solo project Aiming “Used To Play” single
  
• Atlanta, GA shoegaze /psych rock band Jaguar Sun “Anchor” from “The Float” EP
  
• Melbourne, Australia four-piece alternative rock /shoegaze /dream-pop band Kite Vendor “Glass Library” from the debut self-produced album “See You at the Equator”
  
• Lorient, France noise-pop /sadcore /indie rock /shoegaze band Trainfantome “Origami feat. Teenage Bed” single from the upcoming debut LP “CONSTANT FAREWELLS” [Howlin Banana Records / Flippin’ Freaks / Influenza Records]
• Oklahoma City dream pop /slowcore /shoegaze outfit Mad Honey – “James Gets His Rose” from the LP “Bridge Over Cumberland” [Deathwish Inc.]
• Minneapolis post-hardcore /emo /power pop /shoegaze band Tuffie “Eraser” from self-titled debut EP [Sunday Drive Records]
• Queens, NY shoegaze /grungegaze quartet PINK MEXICO “Soaked” from “What movie ends like this?” LP
  
• Vienna, Austria dream pop /indie rock /shoegaze band Backwards Charm “Threads” single
  
• Albany, NY alternative rock /grungegaze /shoegaze band Senior Living “Oasis” second single from the upcoming EP “Existential, sudden dread”
  
• Melbourne, Australia shoegaze /dream pop /psych /electronic duo Quasimün “Touched” (New Order cover)
  
• Edinburgh, Scotland ambient /post-punk /post-rock /dream pop /psychedelic /shoegaze duo Sun Shines Cold “Wait My Time” from the upcoming album “Light Fades Into Ruins” [1991 recordings]
• South Cornwall garage-psych-rockers The Heavenly Bodes “De Groene Heuvels”, second single from debut album “Green Hills” [Fuzz Club]
• San José, Costa Rica indie rock /dream pop /psychedelic band Las Robertas “All we need is now” title track of the upcoming LP “All we need is now” [Spinda Records / Kanine Records]
• Falmouth, UK experimental /folk /krautrock /psychedelic rock collective Blind Yeo “Colour Pillow / Kologo” from upcoming debut LP “The Lemoine Point” [Les Disques Bongo Joe]
• Charleston, South Carolina indie rock duo Blimps “Donna’s Song” from the debut cassette album “Over the Moon” [Clean Demon Records]
• New York post-punk /power pop /psychedelia /garage rock band formed in the Mid-80s, Hypnolovewheel “Secret Star” from the compilation LP “Parallel Universe”
  
• Ohio lo-fi indie rock 4-piece band Long Odds “Faorah” from the second “The Dry Land” LP [Clean Demon Records]
• St. John’s, Newfoundland rock & roll /indie rock 3-piece band Cable TV “That’s the Reason” from 2-track single “That’s the Reason b/w Static” [Barely There Records]
• Lausanne, Switzerland, fuzzy garage rock group The Giant Robots “Goodbye” from the 2-track 7″ single “Spooky Signs” [Rogue Records]
• NYC ’60s retropop /surf /garage rock girl group Abby Jeanne and the Shadowband “Queen Bee” from the single “Queen Bee/Baby Come Love Me” [Food of Love]
• Milan, Italy, early 70s soul /jazz /funky /library group led by flautist and saxophonist Giancarlo Barigozzi, aka Barigozzi Group – “Silver Legs” from the vinyl reissue of the 1974 album “Woman’s Colours” [Four Flies Records]
• Kansas City indie rock /folk singer songwriter Kevin Morby “100,000” from the 8th studio album “Little Wide Open” [Dead Oceans]
• Brooklyn, NY, bedroom pop /Americana /dream pop /indie folk singer-songwriter Ivy Knight “Canyon” from the debut LP “Iron Mountain” [Scene Route]
• Gothenburg, Sweden indie folk singer-songwriter Sandra Sumie Nagano, aka SUMIE “Dahlia” from upcoming LP “Stardust In Valleys” [Pomperipossa Records]
• Melbourne dream pop /indie rock /psychedelic /folk singer-songwriter (the frontwoman of alt-rock band Arbes), Jess Zanoni, aka Za Noon “My House” from the debut LP “Heartdrag”
  
• Providence, Rhode Island indie rock /folk singer-songwriter SSA LIN “Tallboys” from the album “Baby”
  
• Kraków, Poland ambient /drone /experimental /ethereal /folk musician Martyna Basta “Guidelines (feat. Felisha Ledesma)” from the third LP “Winged in Collapse” [7K]