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

• Boulder, CO based shoegaze /dream pop band led by musician and composer of Korean origin, Jeehye Ham, aka Precocious Neophyte “Flow” single
  

Probably even more fluidly immersive and stirring than ever, the new single “Flow” coaxes us into a luminous and nostalgic shivering ambience, weighty in its emotional core and at the same time light as a feather, woven by lilting, sheer guitar strums, glinting ripples, and frothy cascading washes, imbued with wistful softly anxious vocals, dreamily floating over sways of coated painful chaos and dreamy gloom.

• Philadelphia-based indie rock /psychedelic /noise /dream pop project of twin writing team Ryan and Martin Rex, aka Soft Skies Inc “Sin Some / Lose Some” single
  

Guitar-noise pop brilliance from the Philly-based twins in one of those songs you’ll never get tired of, that literally glides and floats on stumbling drum beats in a buzzing fusion of power pop a la Big Star and 90s Indie Rock, laced with warm fuzzy guitar riffs, echoing sparkling bittersweet melodies, piercing distorted leads, and glowing keyboard washes, to carry moody frustrated vocals, pleading for relief, through a stormy influence.

• Denver, Colorado grunge /shoegaze /grungegaze band Creek “Unbalanced” from “Creek // Ghostlike” split EP
  

We already enjoyed the classic, dexterously constructed, moody grungegaze sound by the Denver outfit, a tumultuous alternation of excruciating lashes of distorted guitar riffs and spectral reverberated interludes of pensive simmering introspection creates an immersive, fully inebriating and intense atmosphere, rife with visceral emotional hept, encapsulated by ghostly, melancholic vocals that break into vicious submerged screams during a traumatic breakup.

• Devon, England ambient /electronic endeavour from former member of ’80s indie-pop group The June Brides, Phil Wilson “The Early Hours” from “Traum Soundtracks” EP sixth of the label’s 2025 EP series [Too Good To Be True]
• Leeds-born pastoral /cinematic /post-rock /prog /dream pop /psych /folk multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Lukas Creswell-Rost “Corresponent” from the upcoming LP “Weight Away” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• Chicago-based psych /indie folk singer-songwriter Jessica Risker “Sipping In The Sunshine” off the new album “Calendar Year” [Island House Recordings]
• Scottish indie folk rock solo project of singer-songwriter and former De Rosa frontman, Martin John Henry (also WHIN, Jewel Scheme, and 1/2 of Henry & Fleetwood), aka M. John Henry “You Show Me Ways” from upcoming LP “Strange Is The Way” [Gargleblast Records]
• Berlin-based post-rock /drone /shoegaze /slowcore /dirgepop trio of Aidan Baker, Tristen Bakker & Angela Muñoz, Tavare “Ghosts” from the LP “Too Small To Be So High” [God Unknown Records / Cruel Nature Records]
• Texas indie rock /slowcore band Teethe “Holy Water” second single from the album “Magic Of The Sale” [Winspear]
• London-based C86 /punk /psych /indie pop band founded in the early 90s, led by David Feck, COMET GAIN “Danbury Road” from the LP “Letters To Ordinary Outsiders” [Tapete Records]
• Michigan’s alt-indie-rock trio led by songwriter Fred Thomas, IDLE RAY “Halo Undefined” from the LP “Even in the Spring”
  
• New York psych /electronic /baroque pop /space-age pop band of multi-instrumentalist Hewson Chen (The New Lines), drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck / Enon / SAVAK) and vocalist Allison Brice (The Eighteenth Day Of May, The Silver Abduction), Lake Ruth “Potalaka Listening Station” from the LP “Hawking Radiation”
  
• Swedish electronic dream pop duo started in 1995, CLUB 8 “Stay Together” single
  
• Norwegian indie pop band Twirlies “Think that I`m in love” debut single
  
• Hamburg, Germany singer-songwriter-pop-project theCatherines “My Tears Are The Perfect Photo Op” from the album “Distraction” [Teeny Tiny Tapes]
• Münster, Germany jangle pop /power-pop /indie guitar rock band The No Colour Twins “Fifteen” from 2-track single “Fifteen / You Can Count On Me” [Bureau Platiruma!!!]
• Los Angeles-based lo-fi /60s psychedelia/garage /Baroque pop DIY solo songwriter of Eastern European origin, Alley Girl “Salvage City Stroller” from the LP “Peregrine Rambler”
  
• New Jersey power pop /rock’n’roll /teen music maker Juniper Shelley, aka Juniper “I’ve Done Everything for You” from V/A “Second By Second By Minute By Minute: The Songs of Rick Springfield” tribute compilation [Curry Cuts]
• Texas 5-piece rock’n’roll /twee /jangle pop act Paper Jam “Ojos de Luneta” from the debut LP “This and That”
  
• Bay Area post-punk /indiepop trio Neutrals “No Bypass (demo)” from the collection of demos and alternate versions “Leisureland Demos”
  
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock /psych /dream pop band Convenience Store “Tabis (Walk Me Through The Night)” single [Mannequin Boys]
• Oxford, UK indie pop band formed in 1989 from the ashes of legendary Oxford band Talulah Gosh, Heavenly “Portland Town” 2-track 7″ single, first from a new album scheduled for 2026.
  
• NYC-based dream-pop /indie rock artist & producer Brian DeSousa, aka Notbrian “Want Me” title track of the new EP [Spirit Goth Records]
• Bath/Bristol, UK-based shoegaze /dream pop band Night Swimming “Whispers On Argyle” single
  
• New York indie pop band led by singer-songwriter Greta Kline, Frankie Cosmos – “Pressed Flower” from the upcoming 5th LP “Different Talking” [Sub Pop Records]
• New York-based dream pop /indie rock band formed in 1990, IVY “Say You Will” from the upcoming new LP “Traces of You” [Bar/None Records]
• Oslo, Norway indie /dream pop solo singer-songwriter Yndling “Before It Gets Dark” from “(I’m in the Palm of Your Hand)” first of a two-part album [Spirit Goth Records]
• San Francisco-based shoegaze /indie pop group led by Ryan Lescure, aka Devoted Fans “You’re My” from the cassette debut LP “Hyper Devotion”
  
• Brisbane, Australia shoegaze /indie rock duo Western Freeway “Time Out” 2-track single
  
• Seattle, WA shoegaze /dream pop solo project Pale Coast “Chicago Memories”
  
• Shanghai-based post-rock /shoegaze project All Lost Glitter “Narcissus” off the debut album “She Will Never Realize”
  
• Italian shoegaze /post-rock collective Zima Blue “Skydiving” from the debut mini-album “Skydivers”
  
• Hamburg, Germany dream pop /shoegaze band The First Eloi “In Sepia” single
  
• Nagoya, Japanese 4-piece post-rock /shoegaze band クリオネ方程式 (Clione Houteishiki) “風” from the EP “バッカルコーン (Buccal Cone)” [DREAMWAVES RECORDS]
• Austin, TX dream pop /shoegaze band Allwax “Nineteen” single
  
• Moscow shoegaze /noise rock band Dog Wave “VVR” from the LP “Остаться собой / Remain Yourself”
  
• Italian indie /dream pop /shoegaze solo project of Michele Cingolani, aka Waving Blue “City Sparks” from 2-track single “City Sparks \ Jackie”
  
• San Antonio, TX ambient /electronic /dream pop /shoegaze project of Joshua Hatten (aka Father Mulligan), Crux of Faith “Sleepless Nights” from “FORGIVEN” EP
  
• Toronto, Canada dream pop /post-rock /indie rock /shoegaze four piece Mount Mural “Pattern Fades” single
  
• Melbourne‘s surf /dream-pop /post-punk /shoegaze band Blanco Tranco “Jacaranda” single [Honeyglider Records]
• Phoenix, AZ alt rock /dream rock /shoegaze solo project Twinstar “All I Need” single
  
• Pokhara, Nepal-based post-punk /dreampop / shoegaze band OutControlJoys “Yuddha” from the debut s/t album [Ris Records]
• Bangkok, Thailand-based atmospheric /alt-rock /dreampop /shoegaze band Slowwves “Trains” from the LP “Perfect Evasion”
  
• Colorado dream pop /shoegaze band Warper “Pull” from the upcoming debut LP “Something, Sometime” [Candlepin Records]
• Brazilian noise pop /shoegaze /dream pop duo Ariel Void “Vortex” second single from the debut album “Um Para Infinito”
  
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia post-rock /shoegaze band WAÎL “A Place” title track of the debut EP
  
• Baltimore, Maryland grunge /noise rock band Birth (Defects) “GUILTLESS” from the LP “DECEIVER / MIRROR” [Reptilian Records]
• Portland, OR alt rock /grunge /fuzz pop band Dustbunny “Sheltering” single
  
• Bologna, Italy psychedelic rock /shoegaze band Pale Blue Dot “For the Beauty of Miranda” lead single from the album “(h)eart(h)”
  
• Dover, UK-based lo-fi /shoegaze /psychedelic pop band Black Market Karma “Looper” from the 12th studio album “Mellowmaker” [Fuzz Club Records]
• London-based indie /psych-pop project of 14 Iced Bears’ frontman Robert Sekula “Take It (Asyd Mouse mix)” from the first-ever solo 7″ EP “Asyd Mouse” [Precious Recordings of London]
• UK shoegaze /kraut /psych-rock new band led by Simon Scott from Slowdive, Three Quarter Skies – “On Fire (Long Mix)” from “On Fire” EP [Sonic Cathedral]
• Paris-based cinematic /Middle Eastern /soul psychedelic rock band Sababa 5 “VU” off upcoming 4th album “Nadir” [Batov Records]
• Tucson, AZ psych /garage power pop band The Lemon Drop Gang “Something Brings Me Down” from the 2-track single “Somethin'” [Rum Bar Records]
• Vancouver, Canada 60s garage rock band The Bad Beats “Lucy Mei” 7″ single [Rogue Records]
• Frankston, Australia bedroom garage /rock’n’roll musician (aka Gnome), Jay Millar “She’s Gonna Two Time” (The Kaisers cover, 1994) off 2-track single [Goblin Records]
• New York shoegaze /indie rock band Been Stellar “Breakaway” single [Dirty Hit]
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania noise pop /alternative rock band Plesser “Dig” from the EP “Citrine”
  
• Kumamoto, Japan fuzz pop /guitar pop /indie rock band Hideaway “Cameron Diaz” from “食える時に食っとけ” EP
  
• Leipzig, Germany bedroom /dream-pop /folk /synth-pop /avant-pop solo project of songwriter Alexander Günther, aka Blumes “Another Try” from the upcoming LP “Wondering Why” [Mangel / Adagio830]
• Lausanne, Switzerland chanson /electropop /indie pop duo Poligone “Par coeur” from the debut LP “En cas de tempête” [Les Disques du Crochet]
• New York-based ambient /dream pop /trip-hop /drum ‘n’ bass /grunge /electronic /experimental pop artist James K “Play” from upcoming LP “Friend” [AD 93]
• Louisiana r&b /alt pop artist Addison Rae “Times Like These” from “Addison” LP
  
• Brooklyn, NY/Knoxville, TN indie rock /folk duo Razor Braids “bb26” from “bb wave” EP
  
• Toronto, ON bedroom pop /acoustic /indie rock singer-songwriter Rachel Bobbitt “Deer On The Freeway” single [Fantasy Records]
• Nashville-based, Australian Americana /indie folk singer-songwriter Emma Swift “No Happy Endings” from the upcoming “The Resurrection Game” LP [Tiny Ghost Records]
• Norwegian post-rock /dream-pop /indie folk songwriter and producer Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser, aka Tuvaband – “Galloping Chest” single
  
• Newport, UK minimal /ambient /jazz /folk /contemporary classical music multi-instrumentalist and producer Will Yates, aka Memotone “Time Is Away Theme” from “smallest things” LP [World of Echo]