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

Weekly Shoegaze / Dreampop / Psychedelic / Indie Tips – June #24-21

PICKS OF THE WEEK:
  • Liverpool, UK slowcore /shoegaze /dream pop project of Matt Suter, aka Violent Dreams “Hold On” from Fall” EP

London based soloist sets aside any previous distortion and noise to craft a cinematic, moody and immersive 5-tracker of an intimist noirish allure, blinding fragility and intense evocative strength, as moving as they are innermost corrosive, laced with subdued restless, shadowy and narcotic moods, graced by ethereal, nostalgic reverb-dusted layers of soft shimmering winding guitar melodies, serene airy breathes of wistful synths, and smooth dragging drum beats, sway drearily around the bittersweet introspection and brittle caress of the confessional vocal’s saddened breathless fears. Heart-warming, barely whispered helpless disillusion and emotional torment, from the most intimate and fragile dimness of the soul.

  • Austin, TX-based dreampop /shoegaze duo of Daniella Martin and Thomas Blank (Vet Trip), Wybercron “Your Call” (Single)

Austin swirling dream-pop duo draw dazzling emotional spirals and ornate crystalline liquid flow of fluttering glittering guitar melodies, trotting beats, airy bright keyboard drifts, and sinuously pulsing silky bass lines to carry coy, ethereal floating female vocals and sparse husky male back-ups, once again headily enveloping us in an intimate cascade of warm ecstatic bliss.

  • Belarus post-rock one-man band from Minsk, Da Voile “Train To Tokyo” from “Aestiva Die Pluviae” (EP)

Atmospheric, throbbing and cinematic post-rock from Minsk with the guitar clearly in the foreground along the support of electronics, and a steady rhythmic section, in a precious balance of the parts, alternating moments of mesmeric and crystalline melancholic introspection with soaring surges of seething tension that lead towards airy expansions, allowing the sound to explode in all its emotional dizzying emphasis and intense reverberated depth.

  • Liverpool, UK experimental /krautrock /kosmische /electronic septet (Loka and The Rotary Fifth), Harmonische-23 “Hoofing The Oboe” ltd. 7″ single on Polytechnic Youth label
  • Salt Lake City-based ambient /shoegaze /post-rock project of multi-instrumentalist Matt Wigham, aka Death Stare “Gigantica” new single
  • Norwegian post-metal /dream pop /post-rock band lead by J. A. Piscopo from Haugesund, Sundrowned “The Eternal” from debut LP “Become Ethereal” on Fysisk Format
  • Swedish acoustic /indie pop project of Emilie Berg, aka Evergreen Days “Until Then” from the upcoming compilation CD album “Essential // The Sound Of…” on My Secret Garden Recordings
  • Montreal, Quebec chamber dream /indie-pop /psych-pop artist Meggie Lennon “Jardin” from upcoming album “Sounds From Your Lips” via Mothland.
  • London, UK noir-pop/shoegaze/dream pop duo of Dean Garcia (formerly of Curve) & Rose Berlin, SPC ECO “Forever For All” off the “Day By Day” LP
  • Brighton, UK ethereal /folk /indie pop artist Eucereon “Diamond Eyes” new single
  • Paris, French indie rock /dreampop band led by singer/songwriter Bérénice Deloire, GOOD MORNING TV – “Human Comedy” from the new second album “Entertainment” on GÉOGRAPHIE
  • Chicago lo-fi /folk /indie /psychedelic band MAZES “Witch’s Bay” from the fourth & final cassette LP “PEACE BRIDGE” on Sanzimat International
  • Bristol-based UK dream pop/indie producer and multi-instrumentalist, Harry Christensen, aka MOST AKIN “Hourglass” off upcoming EP ‘Fairlinch’
  • Madison, Wi slowcore/shoegaze/indie pop band Slow Pulp “At It Again (Again)” from upcoming “Deleted Scenes” 7″ single on Winspear.
  • Los Angeles-based electronic /dream-pop /celestial pop musician Lionel Williams aka Vinyl Williams – “Beaming” off the new single “Beaming / Precious Star”
  • Montreal, Quebec synthpop /dream pop /indie-rock 4-piece Helen Paradise “At Your Feet” debut single
  • Amsterdam-based L.A.-native experimental/ambient/classical/indie pop artist D. Herrera aka Suzanne Kraft “Waiting” from the album “About You” on Melody As Truth
  • Crewe, UK dream pop/shoegaze solo project RAINSTEAM&SPEED “Don’t I want to give everything?” new single
  • Tokyo, Japan indie rock /shoegaze 4-piece BUTOHES “Aquarium” from the EP “Lost in Watercycle” on Friendship
  • Melbourne, Australia ambient /dreampop /shoegaze duo VHS DREAM “The Comedown” from “Departure Lounge” EP (demos and unreleased tracks) on Husky Recordings
  • Russian dream pop /shoegaze /horrorgaze band from Sakhalin, SLEEP OVERLOAD “Saturngazer” from the new EP “Demon Lights”
  • Liverpool, UK dream pop /shoegaze duo, a Lesser Version “I Drown” third single from the upcoming debut album “Excess”
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina ambient /shoegaze /dreampop band led by Nicolás Castello, aka NAX “Rara” (Single)
  • Portland, Or lo-fi indie /electro pop project of Ken Fisher, aka Ensoniq “Moonlight” (Single)
  • Münster, Germany bedroom /dream-pop /indie-pop solo project of half of Nah, Sebastian Voss, aka The Fisherman and his Soul “The Dean (feat. Fiona Sangster & Chris Free)” new single from the forthcoming album “Nothing Ever Stays The Same” due out on Subjangle and Shiny Happy Records
  • Melbourne DIY guitar garage pop group double-headed by Kayley Langdon (Blonde Revolver) and Tam Richards-Matlakowski (Tam Vantage, Girlatones, Permits) along with Amada Monteiro (Gutter Girls) and Louis McDonald (Plastic), Carpet Burn “Ghost” off 7″ EP “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Carpet Burn” on Spoilsport Records
  • Orange County, CA bedroom /indie pop project of Taylor Van Ginkel, aka Teenage Priest “Mirror” new single                                                                                                                                                                         
  • Swedish electronic /synthwave /disco duo from Lund, Sally Shapiro “Fading Away” (Single) on Italians Do It Better.
  • Japanese dreamy electronic R&B artist NOAH “Gemini — mysterious lot” on FLAU 東京都
  • Electronic alter ego of Brussels based Italian-born composer and keyboardist, Elisa Di Riccio aka APOTEK “Black Dolls” from the new LP “Unknown Territories”
  • Ottawa Indie-Electro Rock duo PARAGON CAUSE “Disconnected” single from the upcoming new album “Autopilot”
  • Trnava, Slovakia electronic /indie rock /shoegaze trio VENEER – “Two Ends of the Same Spectrum” from upcoming 12″ EP “Near You” on Deadred Records
  • L.A. based lo-fi /bedroom /dream /psych pop solo project Coolhand Jax “You and Everybody” (single) on Spirit Goth.
  • English alternative indie rock duo from Brighton, Blood Red Shoes “Misery loves company” from the new EP “Ø”
  • Marseille, France indie rock /grunge trio CANICULE “Pissing After Sex” from the debut S/T EP
         
  • Greek guitar-based desert/alternative rock band from Athens, Deaf Radio – “Model Society” first single from Deaf Radio’s upcoming 3rd album.
  • Walthamstow, UK shoegaze /krautrock /space drone /psychedelic band lead by Demian Castellanos, The Oscillation “Forever Knowing” new single from the forthcoming album “Untold Futures”
  • Auckland, New Zealand lo-fi psychedelic project of A. Evans, BLACK SAND – ”Take Me Higher (feat. Kate Hummel)” from the 8th album ”Hypnotic Revolutions”                                                                           
  • Canadian shoegaze /post-punk /noise rock from Toronto, Shallow Waves “Just Beneath” from the EP “Echoes Of A Collapse”
  • Croatian atmospheric post-rock /shoegaze duo from Zagreb, Tús Nua “Lights Out” new single from upcoming 2nd LP
  • Oslo, Norway indie rock /power-pop 4-piece BEACHHEADS “Jupiter” (Single) on FysiskFormat
  • Denver, CO beach-goth /shoegaze/ dream pop band KISSING PARTY “Pig City” (Single)
  • UK baggy /psych /indie rock band Crimson Bloom “The Madhouse” from “The Madhouse” EP
  • Odessa, Ukraine shoegaze /indie rock duo электроптицы “Осколки” off V/A “Электричество №1” on элек///чество
                       
  • Canadian five-piece dream-pop /indie project from Hamilton, Ontario. CAPITOL “Always Saying Nothing” from the upcoming “All The Rest Of My Heads” EP on Meritorio Records
  • Paris new wave /coldwave /dream pop band FIASCO “Soma Bay” new single from the soon to be released album via In Silico Records
  • Buenos Aires-based kraut /psych /dream pop shoegaze project of musician /artist Ferran Pont Vergés, aka Die Noia Futuriszka “Venado (Deer)” from “Live @ NMER Festival 2021” EP
  • Portland, Or post-punk /noise /indie rock band KOALRA “Sunday Fuzz” from the EP “Soft as Clouds”
  • London, UK indie-pop project of dadgaze musician and former Yuck frontman and guitarist, MAX BLOOM “Under Green Skies” from the new second album “Pedestrian”
  • Swedish four-piece jangle indie pop band from Linköping, The Slow Summits “Then Again” (Single)
  • Brisbane, Australia avant-pop /psych-pop band THESE GUY “Idle Hands” from the upcoming LP “A Long-Winded Story”                                                                                                                                                                        
  • Nottingham, UK dream /indie pop band The Crying Violets “Broken Dreams Club” (Single)
  • Sidney dream pop /emo band Sketch Jets “Empty World” (Single)
  • San Francisco dreampop /shoegaze /indie-pop band Starry Eyed Cadet “Feathers” new single on Lilystars Records
  • London, UK indie-folk-pop solo project Max RM “Emerald” (Single)
  • Staffordshire-based dream pop /indie rock /shoegaze producer/musician Jamie Duddy, aka DREAMBACK “Afternoon (ft. Laura Beth Duddy)” from the LP “Escape”
  • Brisbane, Australia indie rock trio LUCKY IDIOT “Mud” off debut “Low Ceiling” EP
  • Highland Park, New Jersey indie /dream pop solo project (member of electronic groups You Shriek, Model Behavior, Project Sphere and Provocateur), Skot Kremen “Balance Wheel” title track from the EP “Balance Wheel”
  • Lucerne, Switzerland ambient /cinematic /soundtrack project of Andy Jossi (The Churchhill Garden, The Blue Herons), The Serpent Garden “drowning”