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

• Austin, TX-based experimental /ambient /shoegaze solo project of Haley Davidson, aka Dottie “Pure” single
  

The transcendent, thoroughly immersive song, conveys the deep restlessness and vibrant tension that represent the distinctive traits of Dottie’s atmospheric reverb-drenched ghost-like sonic dimensions, that build on seamless changes in intensity, crescendos and relaxations, boundlessly powerful in places, soft and intimate in others, in whose alternations echo the torments of a soul struggling between pain and catharsis, drifting us into an unadulterated purity of sounds and emotions.

• Taiwan 4-piece dream pop /slowcore /shoegaze band chirrp. “Silhouette” single
  

An atmospheric, highly emotive, introspective new single from the Taiwanese shoegaze foursome, permeated with a brooding bittersweet edge, that moseys into a loose sprawling shimmery wave of textured guitar swells, rippling and wistfully trembling over deeply sad, dreamy vocals, layered with hums of longing and letting go as a person stands on the beach when it starts to get dark and has a blissful memory, before it slowly starts to dim.

• Oslo, Norway dream pop /noise rock /shoegaze trio of Astrid Garmo (Pumpegris), Emil Askelien Gustafsson (FOAMMM) and Mikkel Syvertsen (FOAMMM), Scoreboard “Rush Spells” single from the upcoming EP «Combat lvl 3»
  

Second entralling single from the freshly formed experienced Oslo-based three-piece, rife with both scintillating and noisy sugary melodic charm. A song about struggling to put your life back together after a difficult time, sways with entrancing radiance on relentless swirling and sparkling guitar chimes, reverberating wistfully over high-angst reflective vocals, gliding, whilst brimming with hopelessness, on a flowing, bracing haze of fuzzed-out textures, trying to find the right environment in which to heal.

• New Zealand lo-fi /ambient /drone /ethereal /minimalistic /electronic /experimental artist Alicia Merz, aka Birds of Passage “It’s What I Am” single
  
• Iceland‘s experimental electronic pop outfit formed in 1997, múm “Mild at Heart” first single from the 7th album (the first since 2013) “History of Silence” [Morr Music]
• Taos, New Mexico ambient /psych-folk /shoegaze /dream pop duo Lauren Green & Marissa Macias, aka Tan Cologne “Eyelids” from the album “Unknown Beyond” [Labrador Records]
• 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 “Vessels” from the LP “Strange Is The Way” [Gargleblast Records]
• Bristol, UK ambient /chill /modern classical /post-rock /electronica /folk musical project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, aka Message To Bears “Disquiet” from the upcoming album “Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts” [Lost Birds]
• Montreal-based psych /dream pop artist Meggie Lennon “Actress” from the second LP “Desire Days” [Mothland]
• Toronto, Ontario electronic /dream pop duo Twin Rains “Magic Mountain” single
  
• Berlin-based Los Angeles-native post-punk /shoegaze /indie rock singer-songwriter PENN FRANCIS “PASSIONATE HEART” single
  
• San Francisco-based 4-piece jangle pop/indie rock band started by veteran musicians Inna Showalter and George Tarlson (Grandma’s Boyfriend, Blades of Joy, Modern Charms), Whitney’s Playland “Long Rehearsal” title track of the 3-song 7″ EP [Dandy Boy Records / Meritorio Records]
• Southeast of Ireland‘s indie band led by John F. Phelan & Stephen T. Byrne, aka One Morning in August “Eyes Like Fireworks” first single from the third album
  
• London-based C86 /punk /psych /indie pop band founded in the early ’90s, led by David Feck, COMET GAIN “Threads!” from the LP “An Outsiders Companion (LP demos)”
  
• Philadelphia-based lo-fi /Bossanova / jazz-pop /pop /folk project of Peter Gill (of 2nd Grade, Friendship, Hour…), WPTR “In Bruges” from the album “Redness & Swelling at the Injection Site” [Lame-O Records]
• Nottingham, UK indie folk musician, singer and songwriter, Peter Hall “My Heart Will Not Withstand” single
  
• Norwegian–German indie pop duo of Jørn O. Åleskjær (The Loch Ness Mouse and Monobird, Swart Vredag) and Sebastian Voss (The Fisherman and his Soul, Nah…, Lancaster), Herr Wade “Junge Onion” single off the upcoming album “The Opposite of C007” [Bureau Platiruma!!!]
• Belfast-based,  Northern Ireland lo-fi /jangle-indie-rock singer and songwriter AM Shanley “Redshifting” from the debut album “American Vanilla” [Subjangle]
• Aberdeen, Scotland‘s psych /jangle /power-pop solo project of founding member and one-fifth of The Vapour Trails, Kevin Robertson “Kings Of Most Of Yesterday” single
  
• Seattle, WA ’60s /Merseybeat /jangle /power pop band led by multi-instrumentalist and composer James Hall, aka Shake Some Action! “What Did You Leave Behind” from the LP “Top Gear”
  
• Boston, UK-based twee /jangly /indie-pop duo of Liam James Marsh (Kid Chameleon) and Alice Kat, aka fine. “Under 19 Skies” from a forthcoming new EP
  
• Leicester, UK lo-fi jangle pop project of musician and songwriter Neil Hill, SHOPFIRES “Some Things Broken Some Things Lost”, outtake from the new LP “We Are Not There But We Are Here”
  
• Makassar, Indonesia-based lo-fi indie pop solo project The Interpretation Cultures “Is Tim BurgessSober?” from the instrumental EP “Humaniora”
  
• Leeds, UK-based indie rock /dream pop solo project of Northern Ireland-native singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Joel Johnston, aka Far Caspian “Autofiction” from upcoming LP “Autofiction” [Tiny Library Records]
• California indie rock /dream jangle pop /garage-pop singer-songwriter Josh Hwang, aka Castlebeat “Downtown” from the album “Revival” [Spirit Goth Records]
• UK jangly /power pop trio of Mark Grassick (ex-Deer Park), Andrew Taylor (Dropkick, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness) and Michael Wood (Singing Adams, Whoa Melodic), aka Space Jaguar “Fall To Piece” from upcoming debut LP “If You Play Expect To Pay”
  
• Gothenburg, Swedish dream pop purveyors The Mary Onettes “Eyes Open (feat. Maja Milner)” double A-side single “Hurricane Heart/Eyes Open” the second from the upcoming album “SWORN” [Welfare Sounds & Records]
• NYC-based, Western Massachusetts indie pop trio Jeanines “Coaxed A Storm” from the upcoming LP “How Long Can It Last” [Skep Wax (UK) / Slumberland Records (US)]
• Glasgow, Scotland post-punk /folk /C86 /indie pop /jangle /art-punk band Water Machine “Water Machine” from the LP “God Park” [Fat Cat Records]
• Washington, DC minimal avant pop group featuring D. Trevor Kampmann (hollAnd) and Mark Robinson (Unrest, Flin Flon) (aka Fang Wizard, and Party Milk), aka Uncomfortable Police “Exclusive Single” from the LP “Michelin Star Hardcore” [Teenbeat Records]
• Providence, Rhode Island dream pop /shoegaze quartet formed in 1993, Blueshift Signal “Ullswater” from “Eventide” compilation album [painted air]
• Brooklyn, NY shoegaze /indie rock band Laveda “Heaven” 1st single from the third LP “Love, Darla” [Bar/None Records]
• Los Angeles-based psych /dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock band led by John Andrew Fredrick, aka THE BLACK WATCH “Surely You Rally” from the twenty-fifth (and first double) album “For All The World” [ATOM Records]
• Riverside, CA grunggaze /indie rock singer-songwriter End of the Echo “Knucklehead” single
  
• Worthing, UK post-punk /dream pop /indie rock solo project of the ex-lead singer of Adorable and Polak, Peter Fij “Complicated” single.
  
• Norwegian fuzz noise-pop band from Oslo, The Age of Colored Lizards “Your Not Alone” single [Sotron Records]
• Melbourne-based shoegaze /dream pop duo of Tex Keane and Maia Efstathis, CVRNS “One Step” debut double single
  
• Albacete, Spain shoegaze /noise pop band Pálida Tez “Ser adulta es un disfraz” single [El Genio Equivocado]
• Galway-based, Irish synth-pop /dream pop solo project Teddy is offline “Apathy” from the debut EP “Reminiscer” 
• Los Angeles dream-pop /noise pop /shoegaze four-piece Mo Dotti “Carnelian (quiet mansions mix)” from “Dissolve opaque (vol. 1)” EP
  
• Sheffield, UK jangle /dream wave /cream pop 3-piece Pale Blue Eyes “How Long Is Now (Richard Norris Remix)”
  
• Atlanta, Georgia ambient /soundtrack /space pop /dream pop /shoegaze solo project SLO MOON “Exo” from the album “Orbit”
  
• London-based lo-fi dream pop /shoegaze group These Sleeping Hands “Beyond” from “Only When I Sleep” LP
  
• Stockholm, Sweden shoegaze /dream-pop /dream rock five piece band Fine Wind, Clear Morning “Sirenen” from the upcoming EP “Öppet hav”
  
• Oslo-based, Norwegian 6-piece shoegaze /dream-pop /indie rock band Hiccup Heart “Raspberry Smile” from the debut album, “Gravity Racer” [Apollon Record AS]
• Californian post-punk /dream pop /shoegaze supergroup featuring Blake Voss (of darkwave band Vandal Moon) and G. Brown (of synthwave project The G), along with debut vocalist A. Amaril, aka PAASTEL “Angles” single
  
• Berlin-based Kansas-born dream-pop /shoegaze producer (aka Exael), Naemi “Ciao” from the second LP “Breathless, shorn” [28912]
• Akita, Japan shoegaze /dream pop /indie rock trio Funiki (雰囲気) “Candy Flip” from the second s/t album
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina noise rock /grunge /shoegaze band Almareas “One Day The Sadness Will End” from “One Day” EP [Shore Dive Records]
• Winnipeg, Canada shoegaze /indie rock band Tired Cossack “Crusher” single
  
• Portland, OR shoegaze /indie rock/dream pop duo FOUND SPACE “Dreaming” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY grunge /shoegaze /indie rock four-piece Hotline TNT “Letter To Heaven” from the LP “Raspberry Moon” [Third Man Records]
• Singapore slowcore /indie rock /shoegaze band Blush “X My Heart” 1st single from the second LP “Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever” [Kanine Records]
• Los Angeles grungegaze band Salt+ “Frail” single
  
• San Francisco‘s ambient /electronic indie rock /post-rock /shoegaze band, ECHODRONE “Movement III” from the upcoming album “Music for 6 Musicians” (Movements I-XII)
  
• London-based 4-piece dream pop /shoegaze band Whitelands “Heat Of The Summer” single [Sonic Cathedral]
• Brooklyn, NY lo-fi /noise /slacker rock /shoegaze project of Laveda member Jake Brooks, aka Retail Drugs – “Manny” from the upcoming cassette LP “rECKless dRIVing” [Angel Tapes / Fire Talk]
• Dundalk, Ireland 5-piece post-punk /post-rock /trip hop /shoegaze band Just Mustard “Pollyanna” single [Partisan Records]
• Oslo, Norway grunge /dream pop /shoegaze /experimental rock band LOOSER “Bread & Circus” single
  
• Boston, MA noise /shoegaze band Magic Shoppe “Going Nowhere Slowly” off the sixth EP “Resurrection Machine” [Little Cloud Records]
• Minneapolis grunge /shoegaze /sludgegaze quartet Another Heaven “Macabre Subway” from double A-side single “Macabre Subway” B/W “The Bug”
  
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ambient /post-rock /shoegaze band WAÎL “A Place” from the first 3-track EP “A Place”
  
• Allentown, PA 3-piece noisy /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band Catatonic Suns “Revelator” from the new EP “Shallow Water Blackout” [Agitated Records]
• UK alt rock /shoegaze /grunge band led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Soren Bryce, Tummyache “Happy Birthday” single [eNtiTy Records]
• Philadelphia-based 4-piece indie rock /psych /garage /shoegaze band Flatwaves “Flowers Remember” single from upcoming LP “Tell Me Secrets” [Abandon Everything Records]
• Los Angeles folk /psych-pop band led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Kenny Becker, aka Goon “Begin Here” from the upcoming album “Dream 3” [Born Losers Records]
• Graz, Austria indie rock /psychedelic artist My Friend Peter – “Promises” from the upcoming album “Promises” [Numavi Records]
• Adelaide, Australia ‘60s garage /spaghetti /psychedelic rock /“desert jangle” outfit Los Palms “Sorrows” from the s/t album [Fuzz Club]
• London, UK-based Experimental /Krautrock /Post-punk one-man band The Sick Man Of Europe “I’m Alive” from the debut s/t album “The Sick Man Of Europe” [The Leaf Label]
• Houston, TX Noisy Garage Psych band The Albinos “Next To You” from the upcoming second LP “Enabilizer” [P.U.G Records]
• Detroit, MI post-punk /noise rock four-piece Zastava “Out Here” from the debut LP “Buildings”
  
• Allentown, Pennsylvania indie /garage rock band formed in 2019 by guitarist-vocalists Nicholas Gillespie and Serg Cereja, aka Laurel Canyon “Stranger” single [Agitated Records]
• Rapid City, South Dakota lo-fi /garage rock /power pop band Friends of Cesar Romero “Can’t Get You” single
  
• Minneapolis Trash Garage Rock /Surf Punk band Mary Jam “This is a Joke” title track of the new EP “This is a Joke”
  
• Aberystwyth, UK 60s folk /power pop /indie pop-rock band Red Cavalry “Bower Meadow” single
  
• Nashville, TN indie /alt-rock /power pop trio The Dangerous Method “Earthworm and Caterpillar” from the upcoming 4th LP “Billboards”
  
• New Orleans-based indie rock /folk /alternative crooner, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Throwing Muses, Belly), Fred Abong “Romans” from “Holy Hints” LP [Moochin’ About]
• Welland, Ontario country /indie folk singer-songwriter Carson McHone “Winter Breaking” from upcoming “Pentimento” LP [Merge]
• Berkeley, CA country /folk singer and guitarist, Katsy Pline “Where No One Knows Me” (Skeeter Davis) from the album “Live at the Three Teardrops” (collection of reharmonized and reimagined country covers and ambient originals)
  
• UK ambient /experimental /field recordings /spoken word /electronics /folklore /folktronica collaboration between Rebecca Denniff (Subphotic, Band of Cloud) and David Owen (Band of Cloud, The FLK), aka Bonfire Hill “Midsummer” from “Songs the Lore Taught Us: Midsummer” single series
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based ambient drone /psych /folk guitarist-singer-songwriter (former member of Kurt Vile‘s The Violators), Steve Gunn “Slow Singers On The Hill” from the first instrumental album “Music for Writers” [Three Lobed Recordings]