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

• Berlin-based alt rock/psych /shoegaze four-piece YEAHRS “Out of Space” single
  

Swathed in ghostly fumes of ‘90s Shoegaze, the Berlin 4-piece churns out an immersive and infectiously arresting single about the isolation felt by being around a phony person, that wobbles into a hypnotic, fuzzed out haze of shuffling drum beats, humming bass lines and a pain-fueled wandering of simmering, plaintive guitar sheets, shivering around seemingly calm yet inwardly anxious vocals, gently falling amid secret female spoken words.

• Dallas, TX-based surf rock /synth-pop bedroom artist Anthony Tobias, aka Toby “Lazy Sunday” debut single
  

Drawing echoes of Real Estate and Mac DeMarco, the Texas bedroom newcomer debuts with a laid-back and languid sun-dazzled surf-pop tune, streaked with sombre moods, smoothly trembles, through rippling, reverb-drenched saltwater breezes of reflective cyclical riffs, and glowing keyboard washes, etched by glistening, twangy nostalgic guitar flourishes, resonating over downtrodden, dreamy vocals, longing for sleep amid a plague of dizzying problems.

• Gothenburg-based shoegaze /psychedelic /indie rock songwriter, musician and producer Mathias Engwall, aka llawgne “A HIT 4 U” single
  

Gothenburg‘s DIY singer-songwriter has a distinctive knack for delivering classic indie-pop-rock that plays with the past in a multifaceted, fresh fashion, seamlessly blessed with Swedish melodic sensibility, and peppered with shoegaze haze and psychedelic sheens. The latest single, brimming with the same infectious shimmery pop clarity as our other fave My Raining Stars, sways urgently on steady percussions, tinny energetic strums and vibrant sparkling, wistful guitar lines that jangle along with twisted keyboards, swirling atop desperate magnetic vocals, becoming highly anxious amid harsh whispers, struggling to impress someone with an obsessive need to be seen.

• London-based ambient /exotica /orchestral /soul /psychedelic /dub electronica /dark pop /downtempo trio of Molinaro, Moreiya and Wendy Lavone, aka Rest Symbol “(break)” from the debut self-titled album [FO]
• Brisbane, Australia experimental-ambient-folk project of Ellena Ramsay, FHAE “old lonely oak tree” single [4000 Records]
• Shropshire, UK cosmic folk rock collective HARESS “Blood Moon” from the upcoming third LP “Skylarks” [Wrong Speed Records]
• Mysterious London-based minimal /experimental indie /dream /synth-pop project Great Area – “Rain” from the album “Good Coding” [Relaxin Records]
• Glasgow, UK ambient /drone /minimal electronic pop singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph “DRAWN.” from the album “WE WERE MADE PREY.” [Rock Action]
• Cambridge, UK fusion /jazz /kraut /post-rock /psych /acoustic guitar folk foursome led by Jack Cooper (Ultimate Painting and Mazes), Modern Nature “Pharaoh” from upcoming LP “The Heat Warps” [Bella Union]
• Aberdeen, Scotland alt-cosmic country /jangle /power-pop solo project of founding member and one-fifth of The Vapour Trails, Kevin Robertson “Of The Night” single
  
• London-based cinematic Psych-Folk duo Joanna Beck & Ian de Silva, aka La Nouvelle Musique “The Mirror” from upcoming s/t album [Fruits de Mer Records]
• Leeds, UK-based lo-fi /bedroom /indie /dream pop project of singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Joel Johnston, aka Far Caspian “An Outstretched Hand / Rain From Here To Kerry” from the upcoming LP “Autofiction” [Tiny Library Records]
• Leicester, UK ambient /shoegaze /dream-pop group Dayflower “Lazy” from “Lazy” EP, excerpt from upcoming “COMFORT” LP [Sunday Records]
• UK lo-fi /bedroom /indie pop /slowcore /dream pop duo Harper “Flowers (demo)” from “The Mother Root: Field Tapes” EP
  
• London-based veteran indie rock singer-songwriter (from Creation Records trailblazers The Loft and The Weather Prophets and Matador recording artists The Wisdom of Harry), Pete Astor “Stop Go” from “Unsent Letters – Home Recordings 1984-2024” LP [ Tapete Records]
• Seaford, UK-based electro-acoustic /indie-pop duo of Simon and Wendy Pickles (of the Popguns), The Perfect English Weather – “Pilgrimage” from the album “Just Beyond The Lights” [Matinée Recordings]
• Wales lo-fi /psych indie pop project of musician and composer  Mari Morgan aka Chwaer Fawr “Mabolgampau” from the upcoming LP “Diwedd” [Klep Dim Trep]
• Brisbane/Perth/Lucerne/London/L.A. and Hong Kong international dreamy /folk /indie pop band The Kind Hills “The 90s” single
  
• Swedish electronic /dream-pop /Italo disco /synth-pop duo, Sally Shapiro “He’s Not You” from the 5th album “Ready To Live A Lie” [Italians Do It Better]
• Melbourne, Australia indie /dream pop singer-songwriter, Amaya Laucirica “Road To Us” second single from the upcoming album “The Blue Hour”
  
• Vienna-based emo /shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Sakura “The end or the beginning idk (trentemøller remix)” from “slow food” EP
  
• Spanish shoegaze /dreamgaze /dream pop solo project Sun Haze “Promise” single [7 Tapes Records]
• Seattle-based shoegaze /indie /dream pop singer-songwriter Natalie Lew, aka Sea Lemon “Crystals (feat. Benjamin Gibbard)” off the debut album “Diving For a Prize” [Luminelle]
• Chicago indie /synthpop /dream pop solo project COOL HEAT “Over Time” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Cardiff, UK 5-piece indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop band Wylderness “What Happens to the Rain” from “Safe Mode” EP
  
• Brisbane, Australia jangle /indie pop “anzac garden pop” band Greg Brady and The Anchors “Don’t Go Out In The Cold” from the album “I’d Rather Walk” [Subjangle]
• Thessaloniki, Greece alternative /indie rock band from Viceroy “Statira” single [make-me-happy Records]
• Anacortes, WA-based guitar pop band founded in Eugene, OR in the early ‘90s and led by duo Jonn Lunsford and Lisa Jackson, The Crabs “The World Can’t Bring You Down” from upcoming compilation “Years at the Unknown” (2013-2019) [K Recs]
• Birmingham, UK shoegaze /post-rock band Our Worlds Collide “The Stranger” 2-track single [1991 recordings]
• Hartford, Connecticut collaborative Dreampop /Dreamgaze studio project, softlightsymphony “if the stars” single
  
• Galway, Irish shoegaze /dream pop solo project Teddy is offline “Past Self” single 
• Chicago dream pop /shoegaze /noisepop band Morvern Hum “Nine Hours” from the cassette EP, “Hollow“ [Candlepin Records]
• Zurich, Switzerland grunge /dream-pop duo Strange Modes “Skin Like Scales” single [Irascibile]
• Philadelphia based indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop band Eerie Indiana “Lindsey B” from “KINO” EP
  
• Spanish alternative rock/shoegaze /dream pop band Dramatics “Waiting For The Train” from the first “Slide Waves” EP
  
• Bradford, UK five-piece post-rock /psychedelic /shoegaze /guitar rock band Abandoned Buildings “Tombstoning” (live studio version of a song from the 2020 debut album, “Disappear Forever”)
  
• Adelaide, Australia 4-piece indie rock /dream-pop /shoegaze band Sunsick Daisy “Yonder, Young Wonder” from “Yonder” EP
  
• Canadian ambient /dream pop /shoegaze project of James Callan, aka Prepare My Glider “Escape The Tragedy” from s/t compilation album [Shore Dive Records]
• New Jersey shoegaze /dream pop duo of Travis Trevisan (Tape Deck Mountain) and Christina Hernandez (Orion Lake), Slow Salvation “Gemini” title track of the album “Gemini” [Velvet Blue Music]
• Sydney-based 5-piece jangle indie pop /dreampop /shoegaze band BRIDGE DOG “New View” from the debut LP “Auto Fictions” [Omiya]
• South Texas alternative rock /dream pop /shoegaze solo project Fun With Ether “swoonswayswirl” from upcoming LP “simply duality”
  
• Christchurch, NZ indie rock /shoegaze /dream-pop project of Annemarie Duff (ex Miniatures), aka T. G. Shand “The Deadpan Break” single
  
• NYC dream pop /shoegaze band Hyperion “Head Sound” single
  
• Atlanta, Georgia-based ambient /dream-pop /shoegaze music project of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Brent Collins, aka Slo Moon “Gravilock” single
  
• Philadelphia-based alternative /shoegaze solo project of Chad Donnelly, aka Wires to the Temples “Modern Daydream” single
  
• Oregon dream pop /indie rock /shoegaze project of Brandon Setta, aka You Wish “Please Laugh” from the EP “God In Drag”
  
• Lyon, France 5-piece Indie Rock /Shoegaze band Luje “Too Cold” single
  
• Sweden alternative rock /dreampop /shoegaze instrumental solo project Kitten Paws “ett poem” from “I rymden kan ingen höra din fuzz” EP
  
• Australian noise /emogaze /post-punk /shoegaze band from Adelaide, DRAINING “by your side” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia underground alt-rock /nu-metal /grunge four-piece Select All “Galeka (feat. Gemini)” from the LP “Eaves”
  
• London, UK indie /drone /psych /shoegaze trio HOLY SPRINGS – “Is This What You Wanted” first single from the upcoming debut album
  
• Christchurch, NZ dream-pop /indie rock band Yumi Zouma – “Blister” single [Nettwerk Music]
• St Louis, Missouri 4-piece indie rock band Hot Joy “Quality Control from “Quality Control b/w Leaning” single [Tiny Engines]
• Swedish indie rock /grunge /psych rock musician and composer, Miynt “Stranglers” from the album, “Rain Money Dogs” [B3SCI Records]
• London-based indie rock band Mary In The Junkyard “Drains” single
  
• Italian shoegaze /psychedelic rock band from Venice, New Candys “Gills On My Lungs” from the album “The Uncanny Extravaganza” [Fuzz Club]
• Northern California garage /indie rock /rock’n’roll /power pop band led by frontman/ ringleader Jake Sprecher, The Wind-Ups “(That’s Just My) Dream Girl” from the third LP “Confection” [Dandy Boy Records]
• Kiel, Germany noise /kraut /psychedelic rock trio Kombynat Robotron “Sauerstoff” from the 7th studio LP “AANK” [Fuzz Club]
• Italian blues /desert /psychedelic rock trio Rainbow Bridge “Hugh The Cactus” from upcoming album “Soundtrack Of A Silent Land”
  
• Melbourne, Australia garage /rock’n’roll /surf rock trio The Grogans “Oh Boy” from Stagger” album [Cousin Will Records]
• Vancouver, Canada 60s garage rockers in 2014, The Bad Beats “Lucy Mei” single [Rogue Records]
• UK raw soulful Garage Rhythm & Blues four piece The Capellas “Greener Than Green” from the album “UNTAMED” [Soundflat Records]
• England based 60s /garage /folk /psych rock solo project by Mike Whittaker, aka Paper Lips “Lose It” from the LP “Melodic Melancholic”
  
• Charlotte, North Carolina power pop band founded in 1979, The Spongetones “Lulu’s In Love” single [Big Stir Records]
• Sydney, Australia-based rock /power pop singer-songwriter Bryan Estepa “Version Of Me from the upcoming LP “I See It Now” [Popboomerang]
• London-based Canadian experimental indie-folk singer-songwriter Dana Gavanski “The Wind (Blew You Away)” from “Spring Demos (2017)” mini-album (collection of Dana Gavanski’s earliest songs, originally released in 2017) [Full Time Hobby]
• UK dark ambient /drone /electronic music film score composer, sound designer, and producer Daljit Kundi, aka SINIUS – “Paranormal Encounters (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw)” from the album “The Silence Before the Haunting”
  
• Salisbury, UK alternative /pop /rock /folk /contemporary music ensemble North Sea Radio Orchestra “Mansions In Eternity” from the album “Special Powers”
  
• Portland, OR ambient /tape music /meditation /electronic /folk musician Ann Annie “The Ocean” from the single “The Ocean / The Field” [Nettwerk]