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

• Hamilton, ON five-piece shoegaze /new wave /indie rock band, Capitol “Your Heart is Everywhere” lead single from the sophomore album, “Sounds Like a Place” via Meritorio Records
  

The Canadian group describe themselves as an “Indie band” in their biography, and rightly so, somehow well aware of the atypical nature of their imaginative nuanced songcraft, in not giving too many fixed reference points to their music rife with compelling evocative intensity. The new ‘anthemic’ single that deals with a toxic relationship is a rousing blend of epic heartfelt feelings, soulful lyricism, and rich yet stripped-down, perfectly orchestrated swirling instrumental interlockings that sway moodily from blurry angsty introspections to majestic chaotic guitar-fueled outbursts of passion, overtaking nervous, emotional baritones with violent spewing mists of hellish love.

• West Berlin-native jazz /baroque pop /northern soul /power pop /sophistipop solo project of musician and composer Patrick Goldstein (aka Caroline Now), aka Goldstonesd – “Trust Me 7” first in a series of three singles over the year (2024)
  

In his undying search for the perfect song, the longstanding West Berlin-native and The Firestation label-affiliated refined craftsman of precious pop Patrick Goldstein, a.k.a. Goldstoned, concocts, with natural elegance and intriguing harmonic charm, a rich mix of classic 80s/90s British pop, jazz, folk, Bossanova, Northern Soul, and John Barry-esque cinematic music, sprinkled with sun-kissed Beach Boys glints. Making no exception the groovy and nostalgic new single unfurls through jazzy fizzing riffs, swirling Hammond organ washes and Bacharch-like trumpet blasts, to carry heartfelt vocals and a high-energy “good vibrations” chorus, through a restless pleading for trust.

• Detroit, Michigan Indie /Dream Pop duo Bluhm “Under The Glow Of Your Moon” single from the upcoming LP
  

The second monthly single of “music for lovers and leavers” from the Detroit duo shivers on the glistening rippling of vibrant wistful guitar melodies, layered with a warm humming floor of resonant pulsing bass lines and tinny, steady percussions, swept by emotive keyboard strings, around airy emotional female vocals, haloed in soft baritone echoes, longing and wondering “Will you wait for me?”

• Anglo/American/Australian ambient /post-rock collective led by Minneapolis-raised, Casablanca-based hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson (Judgement of Paris), Memory Drawings “Divisible By Three” from the ltd. CDr album “Deathbed Requests” [Sound In Silence]
• 1980s Cult Japanese ambient /abstract punk /music concréte /purist singer-songwriting outsider composer, K. Yoshimatsu “Fossil” from the upcoming career retrospective collection “Fossil Cocoon: The Music of K. Yoshimatsu” LP 12″ [Phantom Limb]
• Los Angeles lo-fi /avant-Americana /cosmic psych-folk band Nighttime “Cali-for-ni-a” from upcoming LP “Lone Star”
  
• Scotland ambient /acoustic /indie folk singer-songwriter Lists “bare” from the album “LP1”
  
• London-based ethnic /jazz /pop /psychedelic duo of French multi-instrumentalist Kit Martin and Istanbul‘s singer and multi-disciplinary artist Merve Erdem, aka KIT SEBASTIAN “Faust” single via Brainfeeder
  
• Genève-based, Swiss pop sister and brother analog synth poetry duo Citron Citron “Par un temps pareil” from the upcoming second LP “Maréeternelle” via Les Disques Bongo Joe
  
• Halifax, Nova Scotia 4-piece power pop /indie folk band Nap Eyes “Demons” single (lyrics translated from a poem by Alexander Pushkin) via Paradise of Bachelors
  
• LA dream pop /psychedelic rock quartet Secret Flowers “Malibu Burns” from “Balboa” EP
  
• South Korea-based dreamy surf-tinged jangle /bedroom pop from Scottish musician David Skimming, Lunar Isles “Beyond the Pale” from the new album “Parasol”
  
• London, UK ethereal /shoegaze /dream pop duo DEARY “The Moth” flexi disc 7″ single [Sonic Cathedral]
• Austin, TX garage /psych pop 4-piece band (fka Brother Sports), BS “Lost Cowboy” single
  
• Austin, TX experimental tropi-punk outfit led by Jackie O’Brien, singer/bassist of Austin psych-rock sultans The Bright Light Social Hour, Starflake “NuBooty” debut single
  
• Marietta, Georgia jangle pop /shoegaze /dreampop singer-songwriter Copperplate “Slow Gaze” off the second album “réapparaître”
  
• Melbourne shoegaze /indie pop /dream pop duo Grazer “Memory Screen” new single
  
• Los Angeles-based indie rock /folk singer-songwriter Luna Shadows – “Witches’ brew” from the new album “Bathwater”
  
• Denver, CO indie /dream pop band Circling Girl “Clay Brain” single
  
• Detroit, MI indie rock project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Alex Trajano and singer/songwriter Thomas Trimble (American Mars), aka Frontenac “Closer” from the second single “Closer w/Daylight”
  
• Norwegian/German indie jangle pop quartet 150 Tissues “Not Afraid” debut single via Bureau Platiruma!!!
  
• Sheffield, UK-based emo-pop /jangle pop /dreampop /indie-pop project of  Liam James Marsh (1/2 of Fine), aka Kid Chameleon “How Long The Devil’s Been Gone (II)” from next album ‘’How Long The Devil’s Been Gone”
  
• Clare, Australia indie /jangle pop band The Boltons “I Said It Before, Do I Have to Say It Again?” single
  
• St Helens, UK lo-fi garage /noise pop /psych-folk band, THE BORDELLOS “In Two” from the album “The Lo-Fi Psych Sounds of the Bordellos” via metal postcard records
  
• Massachusetts bedroom pop /emo /indie folk band led by artist Chloe Deeley, Sailor Down “Vacation (forgive me, evan)” from the upcoming cassette EP “Maybe We Should Call It A Night” via Relief Map Records.
  
• Glasgow-based lo-fi /C86 /indie pop DIY band I wanna be a truck driver “Teenage Wulver” from the 2-track single “Truck of Trouble/Teenage Wulver”
  
• Portland, OR minimal folk indie pop duo, started in 1994, of Jen Sbragia and Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, Gaze, Go Sailor), aka The Softies “I Said What I Said” from the upcoming “The Bed I Made”first new studio album in 24 years, via Father/Daughter Records
  
• Seattle, WA twee indie pop DIY band formed in 1995, Tullycraft “Josie” from the expanded reissue of the 1996 debut album “Old Traditions, New Standards + Singles (Expanded Edition)” 2x LP 12″ via Darla Records
  
• San Francisco indie jangle pop band led by Andy Pastalaniec, aka Chime School “Give Your Heart Away” first single from the upcoming sophomore LP, “The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel” via Slumberland Records
  
• San Francisco shoegaze /jangle /sadcore /indie pop band led by Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums, etc), The Reds, Pinks & Purples “The House They Went Past” (unreleased) from the white vinyl 12″ version of the 2022 album “Still Clouds At Noon (2024 tour edition)” via Tough Love
  
• Manchester, UK indie rock /dream pop DIY one-man band of Mathew Mills, aka Goodbye Wudaokou “Icy Black” from the ltd. CD debut album “Mirror Skies”
  
• Austin, TX-based shoegaze /indie pop /jangle /dream pop band, Letting Up Despite Great Faults “Embroidered” second excerpt off upcoming new album ”Reveries”
  
• Japanese guitar pop /shoegaze band Ferri-Chrome “Another Space-Time” from the second LP “Under This Cherry Tree” via TESTCARD RECORDS
  
• Italian indie /shoegaze /dream-pop band Novanta “Rena” single via Factory Flaws
  
• Windsor, Ontario Shoegaze /Dream Pop band, TALKING VIOLET “It’s Gonna Be Good” new single
  
• San Francisco lo-fi / dreampop / nu-gaze /brightcore project led by songwriter Justin Cheromiah aka High Sunn “aoneko (benedict ちゃん)” from “before story ~ yume no kimi” EP
  
• Spain-based dream pop singer-songwriter April June “Pretty like a Rockstar” single on Nettwerk
  
• San Francisco electronic /shoegaze /dream pop band led by Rebecca and Ryan Coseboom, Halou “No Moon” 2nd single from the LP from “The Butcher’s Bill”
  
• New York-based Lo-Fi, Dream Pop collaborative music project of Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar, Phantom Handshakes “Good Intentions” from the upcoming album “Sirens at Golden Hour”
  
• California ethereal dream-pop solo project Crimson Whisper “Adrift Unknown” from the LP “Flutter”
  
• Neston, UK based indie pop /shoegaze /dream pop project of Phil Wilson, aka THE RAFT “Memory Of A Day #7″ from the new album “Look At The Patterns” via Shore Dive Records
  
• Danish goth /black metal /doom /witch /trip-hop /shoegaze dark audiovisual project of Lasse Lund and Kristine Nydahl, Vrangvendt “Hellbound” single
  
• Atmospheric /doomgaze /shoegaze band from Serbia, OMIDARI “Your Light” single
  
• Bacolod, Philippines lo-fi ambient /drone /minimal /shoegaze bedroom producer Someplace “Lost In The Cycle” single
  
• Portland, OR five piece shoegaze /dreampop band Waking Sophia “When I Roam” from the debut EP “Waking Sophia” EP
  
• Gold Coast, Australia shoegaze project SHOEGAZER “Hear Me” single
  
• Copenhagen’s space rock /shoegaze /dream pop producer Trentemøller “Dreamweavers” title track of the upcoming LP via In My Room label
  
• Costa Rica five-piece dream pop /shoegaze band Adiós Cometa “Costanera” from the debut album “Nuestras Manos Son Incendios′”
  
• Portland, OR dreampop /doomgaze /shoegaze band Kallai “Another World” from the debut S/T EP
  
• Rancho Cucamonga, CA emo /noise /post-shoegaze squad led by Matthew Wainwright, COLD GAWD “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned For A Thing I Cannot Name” first single from the upcoming sophomore album “I’ll Drown On This Earth” via Dais Records
  
• New York‘s alt-rock /indie rock band Been Stellar “Scream from New York, NY” the title track of the new LP “Scream from New York, NY” via Dirty Hit
  
• Philadelphia, PA grunge /shoegaze band Wires to the Temples “Shape of Water” single
  
• Atlanta, Georgia five piece shoegaze /indie rock band Lunar Vacation “Set the Stage” from the upcoming LP “Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire” via Keeled Scales
  
• Moscow-based emo /dreampop /shoegaze 4-piece Dog Wave «Не возвращайся» single
  
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock /shoegaze group Sylvia “Recompose” from the cassette “EP II”
  
• Montreal, Quebec Britpop /shoegaze /indie rock project from Heat’s frontman, Susil Sharma, aka Karma Glider “Sugarcane” from the EP “Ocean Honey Violence” via Mothland
         
• Concepción, Chile space /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze band led by Álvaro L.B., aka Autista “Multitudes” from the debut “Noise Pop” album
  
• San Diego, CA noise rock /shoegaze solo project of Travis Scott Alvarado, aka Cling Ring “Geisha” from upcoming LP “PC Dreams of Sea Water”
  
• Brisbane, Australia post-punk /shoegaze /indie rock duo Western Freeway “California Sand” single
  
• Milwaukee, WI alternative rock /shoegaze band HUMID “Memory Leak” single
  
• Chicago-based 4-piece alt rock /grunge /shoegaze band Sleepwalk “Lucky To Be” from “Out Of Focus” EP via Summer Darling Tapes (EU tape)
  
• Minneapolis, Minnesota post-rock /shoegaze /sludgegaze 4-piece band Another Heaven “Genius?” from the upcoming 5th album “See You Later”
  
• Oklahoma City grungegaze trio BLISS “Petrol” from “ASHEVILLE DEMOS ’23” EP
  
• UK three-piece alternative rock /shoegaze band from Birmingham, Terminals “Depths” single
  
• Seattle, WA-based shoegaze /indie rock musical project of Italian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Andrea Fox Volpato (New Candys, MØAA) aka Painted Vein “Where is my Soul” 2nd single from the upcoming debut LP via We Were Never Being Boring Collective
  
• Parisian progressive /folk /blackgaze /shoegaze band Alcest “Flamme Jumelle” from the LP “Les Chants de l’Aurore” via Nuclear Blast
  
• Portland, OR psych-garage 4-piece rock & roll band The Shivas “If You Don’t Love Me Anymore” from upcoming LP “Can’t Stop Coming Around” via Tender Loving Empire
  
• Dover, UK-based lo-fi /shoegaze /psychedelic pop band Black Market Karma “Puddle Eyed Sponger” from the eleventh studio album “Wobble” via Fuzz Club Records
  
• Sydney, Australia psych /garage rock 4-piece group Straight Arrows “Don’t Shoot Me” single from the forthcoming 4th album “SURFACE WORLD” via Rice Is Nice (AU), Agitated (UK/EU), and Lolipop Records (US)
  
• Milan, Italy shoegaze /space /krautrock /psychedelic quartet, Huge Molasses Tank Explodes “Bow of Gold” from the upcoming LP “III” via Retro Vox Records
  
• Argentina psych /fuzz /garage punk trio (former members of Los Peyotes), Las Ratas Sicodelicas “Tengo Terror” from the S/T album via GROOVIE RECORDS
  
• Toronto-based krautrock /space /psychedelic rock synth-guitar project of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Jakob Rehlinger, aka HEAVY MOON “Viral Vector” from the CD album “Astral Highway”
  
• Argentina psych /fuzz /garage punk trio (former members of Los Peyotes), Las Ratas Sicodelicas “Tengo Terror” from the S/T album via GROOVIE RECORDS
  
• London-based Shoegaze /Post Punk band The Youth Play “If We Just Ever Were” single
  
• Bielefeld, Germany four piece post-punk /emo /indie rock /shoegaze band Amber – “Heavy view” from the “Room For Understanding” LP via room 11 records
  
• Los Angeles-bred fuzzy indie rock /power pop solo project of Exploding Flowers frontman, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Sharif Dumani “Tight Lipped” from “In Search Of Memory” album via Broken Clover Records
  
• Seattle-based indie /trip-hop /synth-pop duo Lady Mallard & Steven Nereo (Slabco Records founder), aka Volume All*Star – “Fahrenheit 206°” from the Daylily Arboretum label cassette reissue of “Self-connected | Twice-elected” album originally released on CD in 1998 via Slabco Records
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark synthpop duo Secrecy “Lionheart” first single from upcoming debut album via Part Time Records
  
• Los Angeles r& b/neo-soul /falsetto singer-songwriter Pale Jay “Easy, Lee” first single off the album “Low End Love Songs” via Colamine Records
  
• Latino cosmic desert instrumental guitar two-piece band of Swiss/Ecuadorian brothers Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez, aka Hermanos Gutiérrez “Sonido Cósmico” title track of the “Sonido Cósmico” album artfully produced by Dan Auerbach via Easy Eye Sound
  
• Cambridge, UK progressive /neo-classical /post-rock instrumental project of bassist and multi-instrumentalist (Meliorism, Limited Time, and Lame Goat), James Dorsett “Stranded” from the single “Turbulent Sky”