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

• Glasgow/Edinburgh DIY indie /surf /dream pop /bedroom pop project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Kay Terence, aka Swiss Portrait “Paper Houses” third single from forthcoming “The Crippling Pain of Happiness” album on cassette via Star-Track
  

Another single of mesmerizing jangly dream-pop that shimmers with intricate and refined delicacy, through a tumultuous and emotional reflective canvas drawn by relentless prickly, ringing guitar melodies, winding harmoniously with sinuous organic humming bass ripples, and stumbling drum beats, to churn anxiously around soft shy vocal angst, delivering an intimate romantic confession into obsessive outflows of warped and glistening dreams.

• Long Beach, CA indie rock /shoegaze solo project Morning Eagle “War of Roses” single [Setterwind Records]

Solo project from California, active since 2021, with several releases to his credit, “War of Roses” is, I guess, the first real excursus into the already well-trodden classic heavy and melodic shoegaze and post-grunge paths, amidst dreamy melancholic tones, and abrasive blankets of feedback and fuzz. Restless emotional turmoil stirs up steady pounding drum beats, blistering fuzzy guitar riffs, and heavy buzzing bass lines to overcome light detached vocal angst, confessing the love is gone, with numb heartache from broken dreams.

• Oslo, Norway fuzz noise-pop band led by guitarist and vocalist Christian Dam, The Age of Colored Lizards “In Between” off of the new EP “The Fall” on Sotron Records
  

Proof of a very inspiring period for Oslo’s outfit, our favorite track off the new EP, “In Between” sparks off a vaguely psychedelic din of droning jangly pop laced with anxious introspective moods, spiraling over relentless sparkling whirring waves from blaring, ringing guitar riffs and light tinny tambourine shakes, to hazily reverberate and flow below heartfelt melancholic vocal longings, trying to find a better way to live, amidst merciless flows of doubt and unease.

• Reykjavik, Iceland‘s ambient /dream rock /post-rock band Sigur Rós “Mór” from the new album “ÁTTA” on KRUNK
  
• Swedish electronic dream-pop singer/producer Kristina Florell (Team Rockit), aka Merely – ”Think of u” from the collection LP “Merely Archives – Edits Vol. 2”
  
• Tokyo, Japan ambient /IDM /drum & bass /ethereal /shoegaze /dream pop /electronic artist Dreamweaver “I love the rain” from the album “Blue Garden”
  
• New York/Munich wave electronic synthpop collaboration R. Missing & Bostro Pesopeo “Nobody Hurt” single
  
• Spanish–Moroccan electronic bedroom-pop artist Herminia Loh Moreno, aka Restinga “Abrazaditas” from the single “Abrazaditas / انا و ياك” on Madrid’s label raso.
  
• Cincinnati, Ohio indietronica /indie rock singer-songwriter DYAN “Dark Streets” the first track off DYAN’s next album “Midwest”
  
• Paris, France retrowave /dreamwave /synth-wave /electronic musician VIQ “Eternal” single
  
• Polish ambient /drone /gloomcore /shoegaze /slowcore solo project of Dawid Schindler, aka Air Hunger “A Place To Sleep” from the cassette album “Grace” on Stellar Frequencies and Peleton Records
  
• Australian lo-fi /indie /dream pop solo project from Melbourne, Static Animal “Silver Beach” from “Spare Time” EP (instrumentals demos and covers)
  
• Birmingham, UK Bedroom Lo-Fi Dream Pop/Shoegaze solo project (offshoot from late ’90s outfit Avrocar), Geneva Drive “Brittle Star” from upcoming (ltd. handmade gatefold CDr) mini-album “Soft Like Fire” on Wayside & Woodland Recordings
  
• London, UK electronic /dream pop trio Night Tapes “Silent Song” from “Perfect Kindness” EP on Nettwerk
  
• Bath, UK psych /folk /baroque /chamber pop artist and producer Alex Pester “You Love Me” from the album “Better Days” on Violette Records
  
• Madrid/London indie /Bossanova /sunshine pop duo multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Yani Martinelli and Marcus Holdaway (member of High Llamas), aka Colourway “Bittersweet memories” from the debut album “Definitiv!”
  
• Norwegian chamber pop /folk /indie-pop band Selma “En som deg” from the new EP “Etterpåklok”
  
• Copenhagen-based dream /indie pop quartet KINDSIGHT “Tibet” new single on Rama Lama Records
  
• San Jose, CA bedroom pop /surf /indie pop solo project Mild Monk “Sunshine” single
  
• Victoria, Australian Experimental /Post-Vaporwave /Shoegaze solo project Kozstandsya “At Least I’m Trying” from the album “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
  
• Vancouver-based indie rock /post-folk songwriting project of Toronto-raised producer Sasha Balazic, aka Tractor Beam “Donnie Darko (Pt. 2 & 3)” from the album “Turtles All The Way” via Kingfisher Bluez
  
• Glaswegian jangle-pop outfit of lifelong friends Calvin Halliday and James Hindle, aka U.S. Highball “Paris 2019” off the 4th album “No Thievery, Just Cool” on Lame-O Records
  
• Paris-based new indie pop band formed by Michael Hiscock (The Field Mice‘s co-founder and bass player, later with Trembling Blue Stars) and Émilie Guillaumot, The Gentle Spring “Paris Windows” from the Ltd. 7″ vinyl “Dodge the Rain / Paris Windows” fifth and final installment of 2022/23 Too Good To Be True label‘s Singles Club
  
• Olympia, WA minimal indie pop duo The Softies – “Change My Ways” from The Softies + Tony Molina‘s “Pacific NW Tour Tape” (The Softies and Tony Molina play each other’s songs) ltd. cassette on Slumberland Records
  
• Hamburg‘s Indie/Northern Soul five-piece Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen “Es ist immer Sommer irgendwo” single (mixed by DJ Andy Lewis) on Tapete Records
• Vienna, Austria C86 /jangle-pop /indie-twee-pop four-piece Laundromat Chicks “Never Return” from the new album “Lightning Trails” on Siluh Records
  
• Indonesian surf pop /post-punk /dream pop/shoegaze 4-piece band from Jakarta, BEDCHAMBER “Capa City” title track of the new album via La Munai Records.
  
• Sheffield, UK based mid-80s C86 /indie pop group One Thousand Violins “Why Is It Always December? (BBC Peel session version)” from 10-inch vinyl single EP “John Peel session 25.09.85” on Precious Recordings of London
  
• Trans Atlantic Francophone disco /electropop /indie guitar pop collaboration between Philippe Lavergne (Les Freluquets) & Thierry Haliniak (My Raining Stars) with the lyrical contribution of Gilles Ramey, aka MEYVERLIN “Wasted Years” from the 2-track Ltd. 7″ vinyl “Casanova / Wasted Years” fourth installment of 2022/23 Too Good To Be True label‘s Singles Club
  
• Jakarta, Indonesia shoegaze /noise pop of Damascus guitarist, Peter Andriaan Walandouw “Stay Okay” from the 2-track single “Leisure” on Tarsius Records
  
• Jackson, Mississippi lo-fi /indie /grunge /shoegaze solo project HOLY VISION “Dreaming” from the EP “Always, Already” [BIRTHDIY]
• Schaffhausen, Switzerland indie /wave /synthpop duo Walter Frosch “Last Year” from the EP “A Sea Of Broken Light”
  
• Chicago, Illinois lo-fi /indie /shoegaze /dream pop solo project COOL HEAT “Won’t Be Long” single on Spirit Goth Records
  
• Vancouver/Toronto jangle indie rock trio Tough Age “Hideaway” from the LP “Waiting Here” on We Are Time (Canada) and Bobo Integral (ROTW).
  
• Portuguese dream pop /indie rock band from Lisbon, Hause Plants “Marcy Avenue” single on Spirit Goth Records
  
• Collingswood, NJ-based shoegaze /indie rock band The Starlit Hues “Running It Back” from “Again, I’m Going _____ Demos” album
  
• Santa Monica, CA chillout /dream pop /indie pop singer-songwriter, Alex Siegel “Dream We Had” from “Marina Blue” EP
  
• California indie-pop duo Former Friend “Peach Pear Dream” single
  
• Cottbus, Germany indie /alternative rock duo Para Lia “Yellow Rose” single
  
• New York-based dream pop/indie rock 4-piece Strange Ranger “Way Out” from their upcoming 4th album “Pure Music” on Fire Talk
  
• Brighton, UK-based dream-pop /indie rock trio CIEL “So Scared” single from upcoming EP “Make It Better”
  
• Irish nu-gaze /indie /dream pop band fronted by singer, guitarist, songwriter and enigmatic Dubliner Keeley Moss, KEELY “Arrive Alive” from the single “Arrive Alive / Railway Stations” off the forthcoming album “Floating Above Everything Else” on Dimple Discs
  
• Surabaya, Indonesian indie garage rock band, Modernheads “Old Crush, New Year” single on Paska Records
  
• Stockholm, Sweden indie pop 4-piece band Tiger Lou “Runaways” from the upcoming LP “Acts” on Startracks
  
• Oklahoma-based dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock duo Mario and Heather Macias, AKA Winter Of Our Faith “Que Decir” single
  
• Charlotte, NC grungegaze /shoegaze band The Mother Superior “Whimperer” from the cassette EP “Glass Hours”
  
• Highland Park, New Jersey indie /shoegaze /dream pop solo project (member of electronic groups You Shriek, Model Behavior, Project Sphere and Provocateur), Skot Kremen “Not Too Well” from the EP “Life Without Joy″
  
• Atlanta, Georgia dream pop /slowcore /shoegaze band Kid Fears “Lemon” from the upcoming second LP “Undying Love”
  
• Swedish post-rock /shoegaze duo Calle Thoor and Oskar Karlström, Bolywool “Ett berg, ett träd” [cover of their 2012 own song “The Mountain, the Three” to celebrate 25 years as a band] on VÅRØ
  
• Chicago, IL shoegaze /indie rock band Lithia “Self Isolation” single
  
• Swiss/American indie /shoegaze /dream pop duo Andy Jossi & Krissy Vanderwoude, THE CHURCHHILL GARDEN “Keep the faith” single
  
• Russian indie /dream-pop /shoegaze band ETHICA “Listen” from the new album “Aether”
  
• Austin, TX dream pop /shoegaze band Allwax “Ghost” single
  
• Japanese experimental /dream pop /shoegaze unit Cosmicdust “Bird cries (sadness ver.)” from the upcoming third album “Sadness”
  
• Naga, Philippines based Marl Amador‘s solo shoegaze noise-pop project, Possvm “Arson” from the second EP “Slow Blur”                                                                                                                                                       
• Richmond, VA heavy shoegaze band Somei “Shaken” single
  
• L.A. indie rock /noise rock /shoegaze band, Teenage Wrist “Still Love (feat. Softcult)” from upcoming LP “Still Love” on Epitaph Records
  
• Los Angeles alt /indie rock /shoegaze Chain Gang Of 1974 side-project, Heavenward “Wish” off the debut album “Pyrophonics” on Fever Ltd.
  
• Italian shoegaze /post-punk /indie rock /dream pop /indie-rock band from Naples led by Andrea Caccese, Dead Rituals – “How Easily” single
  
• Baltimore, Maryland indie rock band Vice Birds “Deep Cerulean” from the debut single “cerulean // sins”
  
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /indie rock /shoegaze artist Lauren Lakis “Terror Tears” second single from her upcoming full-length album “A Fiesta and a Hell” via Green Witch Recordings
  
• Irish darkwave grunge-fuelled indie rock duo from Dublin, HAVVK “Daylight Robbery” single on Veta Records
  
• Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers “Mild Davis” from the upcoming seventh studio album “Data Doom” via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records
  
• L.A. based art rock /shoegaze /psych pop 5-piece Supergloom “Stairdown” single
  
• Stockholm-based ‘stoner pop’ duo Laundry Boys – “Drunk On Love” debut single                                                 
• Tucson, AZ  garage /proto-punk /power-pop 4-piece (featuring members of Rik And The Pigs, The Resonars, Brown Sugar and The Green Teas), CLASS “No News Could Please” from the “2-4-1” LP (compilation of the two previous cassettes on Cincinnati’s Feel It Records) via Drunken Sailor Records
  
• Bergen, Norway indie rock singer-songwriter BO MILLI “Making Friends” single
  
• Paris based dream pop /electro-pop trio Camp Claude – “Te Faire Danser” single
  
• Electronica /orchestral /avant-garde /noise /post-rock /trip-hop /”Ballardian psycho bluesmen” hailing from Northern England, Mangabros “Albuquerque” from the album “Nadayadayeller” [Submarine Broadcasting Company]
• Sidney indie folk singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin “Shiver” (Rowland S. Howard/ The Boys Next Door cover) to accompany the release of the new book about legendary Australian producer Tony Cohen (Half Deaf, Completely Mad) on Polyvinyl Records
  
• North Carolina-based experimental folk rock and roll singer-songwriter Rosali Middleman, aka Edsel Axle “Variable Happiness” title track of the forthcoming mini-album via Worried Songs
  
• Manila, Philippines emo /grunge /shoegaze band Weave “Confinement memoirs” from first “Demo” EP
  
• Dutch ambient /drone /minimal folk singer-songwriter Mariska Baars, aka soccer Committee “Reaching” from upcoming 12″ vinyl EP “♥ / lamb” on morctapes
  
• Atlanta, Georgia textural ambient /minimal electronic /post-rock musician Daniel DeWitt, aka The Lifted Index “Still, Waiting” from the album “A Still Voice” [quiet details]
• Dayflower & AJH “Nimbus” a longform collection of unheard Leicester‘s dream pop band Dayflower music reworked and woven into a gleaming, expansive technoscape by fellow audiovisual artist Andy Harper aka AJH. [Communion Slush]