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

• Montpellier, France Americana /electronic /slowcore /folk /dream pop /indie pop singer-songwriter Frank Rabeyrolles “You Run” first excerpt from the upcoming album “Slow 2” [Too Good To Be True]

The first excerpt from the upcoming second part of the diptych, “Slow 2”, as the title hints, slow things down almost in lethargic slowcore moods, drifting over a delicate sun-dappled haze from sparkling guitar textures drenched in reverb and delay, to reflect and tremble with pensive melancholy, to then wincing and rippling loosely on the air, punctuated by softly abrasive, anxious vocals, airily falling, whilst repeating “You Run” with a hopeless feeling of being left behind.

• Paris-based ambient /shoegaze /dream pop four-piece Yumi Jun “Falling” single [In Real Life]

In their third single, dropped a couple of weeks ago, the young Parisian quartet reveals a captivating penchant for smooth, lush arrangements and immersive mesmerizing ambience, where soft unhurried percussions and slinky, rubbery basslines melt with reverbed, shimmering guitars and atmospheric textures, to engulf, like a warming haze, reluctant, wistful female vocals, rooted in slowed down thoughtful feelings, turning airily blissful, while slowly falling in love.

• Cardiff-based dreamy indie pop Italian duo Lunar Bird “Sinderesi ” first Italian language single to be released on a forthcoming EP entirely in Italian
  

Released simultaneously with the new EP “Whatever Time We Have Left”,  in which its English version is included, “Sinderesi” unfolds like a continuous inner flow, a place where the human soul divides, collides, and mirrors itself through its opposites. So the Welsh-based two-piece usher us into their first native language song about total confusion due to a mental conflict between self and others. Swept in a spellbinding fusion of electronic and organic melancholy, a warming, lush sweeping orchestration and earnest, heart-pulsing rhythms juxtapose with and cocoon layers of vibrant dreamy yet expressive female vocals soaring into anxious doubt, to bring forth  a comforting, immersive, colorful release of fear and alienation.

• Canadian–American ambient /classical /electro-acoustic /dream-pop artist, Hollie Kenniff “Painted Skies (feat. Marie & Julia Thomsen)” collaborative single [Nettwerk]
• Catskill Mountains, NY-bred ambient /experimental /pop solo project of synthesist and songwriter (of folk band Florist), Emily A. Sprague “Double Moon” 7″ single [RVNG Intl.]
• Black Country, UK ambient /hauntology /dream pop /electronica duo Mike Rowley and Kristian Jones, aka MENOWTHERETHEN “Figures” from the upcoming “Erased In Plain Sight” LP [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• Baltimore, MD veteran lo-fi /bedroom pop /indie pop cassette artist (member of 80s post-punk band The Woods), Linda Smith “One By One (C. Converse)” from “Two Songs by Connie Converse” (tribute to New Hampshire-born ’50s pioneer singer-songwriter)
  
• Paris-based chamber pop /indie folk British musician Flora Hibberd “Mammoth” single [22TWENTY]
• Black Country, UK ambient /dream pop /electronica duo Mike Rowley and Kristian Jones, aka MENOWTHERETHEN “Figures” from the upcoming “Erased In Plain Sight” LP [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• US lo-fi /experimental electronic /indietronica duo EAR “Water and Power” from “Rumspringa” album
  
• Edmonton, Canada electronic /soulful /dream pop /indie /indietronica singer and composer Void Comp “Run In Place” last single from the upcoming new album “PASSERBY”
  
• Bordeaux, French lo-fi /bedroom /indie /synth-pop singer and songwriter, Julie Margat, aka LISPECTOR “Your Silence Is Loud” from “The Return Of The Old Flame” LP [Crème Brûlée Records]
• NYC indie /art pop group fronted by Shane Lavers, Chanel Beads “Dust in the Wind” from upcoming second LP “Your Day Will Come” [Jagjaguwar]
• Cork, Ireland veteran ambient /sadcore /slowcore /alternative folk band Boa Morte “The Following On” first single off upcoming LP “Signal:Lost”
  
• Clare, Australia jangle indie pop band fronted by songwriter Joel Carr, The Boltons “We Can Still Hate Each-Other” from “What Crossed Your Mind When You Saw Me Smile?” EP
  
• UK dreamy indie-pop project by experienced British musician Bobby Wratten (Northern Picture Library, The Field Mice, The Occasional Keepers, The Yesterday Sky, Trembling Blue Stars), Lightning in a Twilight Hour “Every Flame a Sunset (Single Version)” edited and remixed version from the 2025 album “Colours Yet To Be Named” [Elefant Records]
• Wales, UK shoegaze /jangly pop /indie duo Warm Coat “Feel It All” from “Fractured Shadows” LP
  
• Clare, Australia jangly indie pop singer songwriter Joel Carr “Appalachia from “Arts & Letters Club (Demos)” EP
  
• West Java, Indonesia synth-indie pop trio DEPORTIVO “perfect cosmos” from debut EP “Cosmos”
  
• UK indie pop /folk band Gently Tender “Go Get It!” from the EP “This Was Once Fields” [Todo]
• Ruhr area-based, German lo-fi /experimental /electronica /shoegaze /krautrock solo project of multi-instrumentalist Gorden Spangardt, aka The Interlaken Tapes “_ Roman _” from the LP “DANCE” [Bureau Platiruma]
• Glasgow-based cosmic synth/post-punk /offbeat indie pop duo of poet-performer Lisa Jones and VOM‘s guitarist-producer Chas Lalli, Gichard “P” from the debut album, “Chins For Lefty” [Night School Records]
• Oakland, CA lo-fi /rock’n’roll /indie rock solo project of Oli Lipton (Now, Cindy), TASTE “Snap Reaction” from “1/2 Fantasy” LP [Tough Love]
• Philadelphia indie-power-pop band led by songwriter Matthew Scottoline, aka Hurry “Zoned Out” title track of the upcoming LP “Zone Out” [Lame-O Records]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina emo /shoegaze /noise pop group Mis peores enemigos “Día de suerte” single
  
• Los Angeles-based psych /indie rock/ dream-pop project multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer Nico L-S., aka Tomorrow Tomorrow “Giant Steps” from the debut LP “Dwelling”
  
• Perth, Australia indie /shoegaze /dream-pop band Gloss “Rosary” debut single
  
• Amsterdam shoegaze /jangly dream pop band Biatlón “Morning Star” single
  
• Warsaw-based dream pop /shoegaze band duszno “żółte tapety” single
  
• Warsaw-based alt-rock /shoegaze /trip-hop experimentalists Angel Egg “Spiral” 2nd single off upcoming debut EP
  
• Northampton, UK indie rock /shoegaze band thistle. “Pylon” from “Backflip” EP [REX RECS]
• London-based ambient /dream pop /shoegazer five-piece, sadplanet “Please” single from the upcoming debut EP “Slowing Down”
  
• Berlin-based fuzzy /shoegaze /dreampop trio Sweetspot “Ocean of Bliss” from the 4-track “DEMOS” EP
  
• London-based shoegaze / dream-pop duo of Tilda Gratton and Curtis Paterson, Atmos Bloom “Everything” lead single from the second full-length album,”Everythingness” [Spirit Goth Records]
• Brighton, UK dream pop /indie rock /shoegaze band Opal Mag “World End” from the debut EP “Goodbye Lavender” [Venn Records]
• Richmond, Virginia dream pop /shoegaze solo project Always Other “Astrologers Elegy” single
  
• Brisbane, Australia indie rock /shoegaze 4-piece band Fragile Animals “History” from upcoming EP “Dead Stop”
  
• Bandung, Indonesia alternative rock /shoegaze five-piece I Hate Summer “Swoon” off “Swoon/Still” (Maxi-Single)
  
• Pittsburgh-based lo-fi indie rock /shoegaze/ noise-pop band Feeble Little Horse “Dior” from the third LP “Bitknot” [Saddle Creek / Republic of Music]
• Berlin-based alternative /grunge /post-shoegaze quartet YEAHRS “VisiOns” single
  
• Cullman, Alabama alternative rock /shoegaze /grunge band No Culture “Dewy-Eyed” single
  
• Los Angeles-based alternative rock /noise /grunge /shoegaze band Saline “COGS” single
  
• English indie /pop punk band formed in the early 1990s in Kent, Midway Still “Could Have Been” from “What If…?” EP
  
• Nuremberg, Germany indie /pop-punk group The Lovebites “Personal Summer” from “Tear Up, Tear Down” LP
  
• North Carolina garage /psychedelic rock duo Elizabeth Vallero and Eddie Sanchez, aka Vulture Twin “Signal” from the self-titled debut EP [Fort Lowell Records]
• Athens, Greece 3-piece Fuzz-drenched Garage Psych Rock band Coral Fuzz “Beach Ghost (ft. Ren Water)” from the second, self-titled LP “Coral Fuzz” [Sunnyboy66 Records]
• London-based 60s psych-garage-beat five-piece Osterberg Weekend “Colliding Circles” from the double A-side “Colliding Circles / Corner of my Mind” 7″ single
  
• Seoul, South Korea fuzz /garage rock 3-piece band Sailor Honeymoon “Pickle” single [Good Good 굿굿 Records]
• Ontario folk /indie rock singer-songwriter Lennie Rayen “I Know What I Want” from the LP “Entertain The Space”
  
• Melbourne, Australian psych /indie folk singer-songwriter, Grace Cummings “My God” from upcoming LP “Bloodhorse!” [ATO]
• Wales, UK indie rock /psych /folk singer-songwriter Johanna Warren “Brave & Capable” single