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

• Seljord, Norwegian chamber pop /folk /indiepop group established in 2016, Selma “Hvis jeg går lenger, går du lei” from “Hvis jeg går lenger, går du lei/Horten-Moss” 2-track single
  

Another pleasant return for the Norwegian ensemble with 2 songs, recorded in 2024 as a quintet, yet actually a septet, that blends tender electro-acoustic folk sensibilities and sunshiny bittersweet indie-pop melodicism with nostalgic lyricism and stirring expressive vocalizations.  In the romantic “If I go further, you get tired”,  angsty, synchronized male/female vocals sway and vibrate over scintillating, fluttering streams of playful, swirling and colorful instrumentations, including a violin and a drum machine, sentimentally longing amidst moving home to Østfold/Vestfold.

• Warsaw, Poland dream pop /shoegaze four-piece duszno “bluszcz” single
  

Ethereal female voice, as is the pattern of several current Polish shoegaze bands, see Midsommar, albeit with thicker, grainy and dissonant guitar textures from duzsno with a new single about friendship, love, and hidden pain. Vibrant wistful vocals drift on a turbulent introspective sea of rippling buzzy distortion laced with piercing pained high twinges, to urgently plead with a loved one, ‘believe me, I don’t want to leave.’

• Bali-based Indonesian dream-pop /shoegaze outfit Dive Collate “Silent Seeds” from the upcoming EP, “Silent Seeds”
  

Back after a long hiatus, the Balinese dreamy shoegazers bring to the table their distinctive lush, mesmerizing sounds alongside gentle, breezy, engaging vocals, that billow as fluid vibrant streams of emotive glistening vibrations, with liquid layers of reverberating shimmery guitar textures and feathery keyboard fills, ending up as a beautifully radiant enveloping harmony, which brings immense blissful depth, amid a brief reflective lull, to roll away into a dazzling, swirly cathartic ascension of letting go for tomorrow’s ‘Silent Seeds’ to bloom.

• Melbourne, Australia drone /Greek demotika /Anatolian folk /psych rock /folk collective The Taps Of The Holy Trinity “Buried Crowns” from “Customs & Rituals of” LP [Fenny Compton]
• Leeds, UK black metal /prog rock /dark folk six-piece group (members of Tristwch y Fenywod, Hexham Heads, and Sh!t Theatre), Wire Worms “True Thomas” from upcoming cassette LP “Beneath The Eildon Tree” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Stirling, UK ambient /magical-realist downtempo post-rock project of British composer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Tranmer (Vetchinsky Settings, The Montgolfier Brothers, Wingdisk, Fragment B) since the late ’90s, GNAC “Milano A Lugano” from “An Octave Of Silence” LP [A Vertical Feature]
• UK-based ambient gaze /psychedelic /dream pop /experimental folk project of multi-instrumentalist artist Archie Ingram, aka Stone Anthem “Roses on the Esplanade” from the album “Solus Rex” [Glass Modern]
• Montpellier, France Americana /electronic /slowcore /folk /dream pop /indie pop singer-songwriter Frank Rabeyrolles “Love Is a Tear Box” from “Slow #2” LP [Too Good To Be True]
• Sydney-based lo-fi indie folk group started by Kata Szász-Komlós and Jasper Craig-Adams, Daily Toll “Preamble” from “Sing Forever (Singing Is Free): Songs from 2021-2023” LP collection of demos from the initial period as a duo [Tough Love]
• Los Angeles-based trip-hop /dream pop four-piece 16 Underground “Glimpse Of You” from “Without a Trace” EP [Sunday Drive Records]
• Oakland, CA dub /synth /leftfield electronics /psych-pop duo abracadabra “Face card” from upcoming new EP “Peel away” [Melodic Records]
• Monterrey, Mexico dream pop /chamber pop /indie /psychedelic pop band led by composer and musician River Williams, aka Kamikaze Prom Night “Holy Diamond Blue” title track of the new album “Holy Diamond Blue”
  
• Legendary Stockholm-based, Swedish indie /dream pop /synthpop trio formed in 1989, Red Sleeping Beauty “Dressed In Yellow And Blue – Late Nights Version”
  
• Australian-born, Oakland, CA-based indie /dream-pop singer-songwriter Hazel English “Phone Booth” single
  
• Stockholm-based indie-pop / dream-pop duo formed in 1995, Club 8 “Birthday” single
  
• Italian New Wave /Shoegaze /Dream Pop /Dreamgaze trio from the Alps, Ultrasaturated “Moor” from “Feral Spring” EP
  
• Goole, East Yorkshire alternative /jangle pop /indie rock group Sandra’s Wedding “Hollywood” from the live 7-track EP “Live At Beckview Studios” 
  
• French C86 /indie pop-rock project of musician and composer Thierry Haliniak, aka My Raining Stars “Silent Girl” from upcoming LP “Toy Club” (a collaboration with his longtime friend and early bandmate in Nothing To Be Done, Didier Frahier, aka E-grand) [Too Good To Be True / Shelflife Records]
• Clare, Australia jangle indie pop band led by songwriter Joel Carr, aka The Boltons “Absolute Blue” single
  
• Brazilian shoegaze /jangle /indie-pop-rock solo project led by musician Bento Werner, Fall Breaks “Bitter Coffee” single [Black Coffee Records]
• Makassar, Indonesia lo-fi bedroom indie-pop DIY project by musician Fadhli Rafq, aka The Interpretation Cultures “Where am I demo” from “Half-assing” demo EP
  
• Indonesian Noise-Rock-Pop band based in Jakarta, Vanishing Muffins – “September Not So Far Away” from V/A “Anyone Else Isn’t You But the Field Mice” the Field Mice tribute compilation [shiny happy records]
• Washington, D.C. indie rock /noise pop group Velocity Girl “Forgotten Favorite” from the band’s early period compilation “1989-1992” [Slumberland Records]
• Melbourne-based slacker /jangle pop group Annual Leaf “Fade To Zomp (Bonus Track)” from the compilation of the band’s last four EPs “Sign of the Bellbird” CD [Subjangle]
• Auckland, NZ indie rock trio fronted by composer Kane Strang, Office Dog “Permanent Day” from “Prime Corner” LP [Flying Nun Records]
• Adelaide, Australia post-punk /noise /wave /shoegaze /dream pop project Air Belgrade “Proud” single
  
• Madrid, Spain indie rock-pop trio Amor Líquido “Guárdame un sitio” single [La Castanya]
• Winnipeg, Canada shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop duo sundayclub “Camera Shy” from upcoming s/t “SUNDAYCLUB” LP [Paper Bag Records]
• Glasgow‘s indie /dream pop quartet Peplo “For His Better Three Quarters” lead single from Peplo’s debut album, “We’re Not Getting Out of Here”
  
• Swiss-US indie /shoegaze /jangle /dream pop duo of multi-instrumentalist Andy Jossi and vocalist/lyricist Gretchen DeVault, The Blue Herons “Willow (Melancholia Version)” 
  
• Bandung, Indonesia indie rock /shoegaze band formed in 2005, Perfect Angel “Ruang Hampa feat. Ajie Gergaji (Themilo)” single [Anoa Records]
• Saint Malo, France dark folk /shoegaze trio UN-TER “Abyssal” from “Abyssal / Neiz Vran” EP
  
• Italian slowcore /post-rock /dream pop trio Lies “Wires” from the forthcoming EP [Shore Dive Records]
• Warsaw, Poland dream pop /shoegaze four piece Midsommar “Midsommar” third single from the upcoming debut LP “Unparalleled”
  
• Brunei-based indie pop /dream pop /shoegaze band CHLORINE (CL2) “The Light Behind Your Eyes” from the 2-track single “The Light Behind Your Eyes / Bystander”
  
• Manchester, UK-based shoegaze /dreampop duo Atmos Bloom “Closer” 2nd single from the second full-length album,”Everythingness” [Spirit Goth Records]
• Tokyo, Japan ambient /alternative rock /shoegaze solo project The Tapwaters “Falling at Night” single
  
• Italian alternative rock /noise /dream pop /shoegaze band from Naples, Mary’s Restless Dream “I Wish You Were A Ghost” from “The Bright Side Of The Sun” LP
  
• Sydney-based lo-fi /dream-pop /shoegaze solo project of composer, musician, and Trillion guitarist Peter Bridle, aka Lone Seagull “Silent Sea” from “Childheaded” EP
  
• Poznań, Poland dream pop /shoegaze trio LULU Suicide “Fiber Optic Love” title track of the second album “Fiber Optic Love”
  
• Philippines 6-piece indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze band LARA “Bonsai” single [Melt Records]
• Richmond, Virginia alternative rock /fuzzy noise pop /shoegaze band Canaries “Horsepower” from the 2-track single “Two Songs for a Troubled World”
  
• Lafayette, LA dreamy shoegaze band Acath “Backwards dreaming” from split cassette/CD EP with Animal Shin’s [Pleasure Tapes]
• Spencer, Iowa alt-rock /fuzz /shoegaze band PURPLISH “Normalcy Bias” from “Nothing New Under The Sun Simulator” LP
  
• Austin, TX rock’n’roll /dream pop /psychedelic rock four-piece Holy Wave “Dewey’s dirge” from the upcoming LP “i’m DADA” [Suicide Squeeze Records]
• Brittany kraut /downtempo /psychedelic /coldwave /electropop musician Sarakiniko “Terre Brûlée” single [La Maison des Corbeaux]
• UK library music /cinematic /space rock /fuzz psychedelic electronics project of instrumental masterminds Paul Osborne of Project Gemini and Paul Elliott of Pleasurewood, aka The Empress “Switch Blade” from the album “Fortune Teller” [Library Of The Occult]
• New England ambient electronica /free jazz /big beat /dub /art-punk /mod trio Perennial “What’s New On The Beat Scene” from “Modernism” LP [Ernest Jenning Record Co. (US and International) / Safe Suburban Home (UK)]
• Sydney-based, Australian art rock /psychedelic /power-pop band The Hovering Spooks “More Than You Like Me” single
  
• Portland, OR-based post-punk /post-rock /indie rock project featuring veteran musicians Kevin Robinson and Jake Endicott, GVTH DVDDY “The Rock Market” from the sophomore album, “GVDV” [Velvet Blue Music]
• Glasgow, UK indie /slacker rock quartet Hound “Big Time” single [Hand of God]
• Montreal, Quebec experimental electronic rock /shoegaze project of Jasamine White-Gluz, No Joy “Big Life, Big Leaf” title track of the upcoming EP [Hand Drawn Dracula (CAN/US/ROW) / Sonic Cathedral (EU/UK)]
• UK/Estonia electronic /dream pop band Night Tapes “Swim” single
  
• Melbourne, Australian indie rock /folk singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)” first single from her 4th LP “The Gem” [4AD]
• Chicago-based indie rock /folk songwriter Ella Williams “Reelin” sixth full-length “Say A Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going” [Polyvinyl Records]
• Athens, Georgia Americana /indie rock group formed in 1996, part of the Elephant Six Collective, Great Lakes – “Why Did My Love Go Away” from the upcoming 8th LP “Fear of the Fear” [HHBTM Records]
• Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario indie folk duo Kalle Mattson and Andrew Sowka, aka Summersets “Somewhere Gone” from the upcoming second album, “Pine Trees in a Perfect Row”