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

• DIY Ambient /Dreampop solo project from Thailand, Youthwinelieswish “Midnight Cottage” single 

The Thai DIY solo project blends hypnotic, organic ambient textures with stirring, radiant mid-tempo dreampop introspection rich in emotional heft. A beautiful, tear-jerking 10-minute song that unfurls like a narrative about a relationship where, despite a betrayal, a person feels like they can’t walk away. Dreamy vocals anxiously layer with fearful echoes, becoming distorted, angry, and far away, before turning into pure celestial breaths, dotted with reflective, luminescent streaks, rutilant gleams, and a soaring, melancholy-infused synth line, fading into a shivering electro-acoustic droning instrumental coda.

• Chilean noise pop /shoegaze band Apoyo Diagnóstico – “MNGZ420” debut single
  

Inspired by MBV, Ringo Deathstarr, Whirr and the current South American scene, the newcomer Chilean duo fuses mid-tempo plodding drum patterns, heavily distorted, thick, crunchy guitar textures, and swirling flutey high keyboard motifs with calm yet vibrant child-like vocals, overcoming the past, and the fear that it instils, by offering comfort and assurance to a loved one.

• Paris suburb-based 3-piece garage /surf rock band GURL “Winter” 2nd single from upcoming debut s/t album [Le Cèpe Records / Howlin Banana Records]

Upbeat French garage rockers jump the gun with an infectious song about wishing for the Summer to be longer, which buzzes and rushes through an intoxicating and refreshing cocktail of hard-hitting drum beats, energetic buzzsaw guitars and bright pop melodies, to fuel uplifting, nostalgic male vocals, and airy woo-hoo back-ups, brimming with a pumped up sense of freedom and fun, amidst a heartfelt spoken word recollection.

• English indie folk duo of veteran songwriters Jo Bartlett (Bluetrain, It’s Jo & Danny, The Yellow Moon Band, Kodiak Island) and Neil Haydock (Finest Drops, Jetboy DC, Submarine), Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Real Thing” from “North Sixteen” LP
  
• Vancouver, BC veteran ethereal trip-goth-gaze band Perfume Tree “What would make us happy?” from the seventh album “Dark Gift”
  
• Wivenhoe, UK DIY lo-fi jangle /indie rock /guitar pop project founded in 1980 by singer–songwriter and poet Martin Newell, The Cleaners From Venus “Spring Wings In” from the upcoming “Beryl & Ruff Go Shopping” LP [The Cat Collects]
• US lo-fi indie rock /folk home recordings from the driving force behind Montana’s power trio Mordecai, Holt Bodish “Gorgeous” title track of the upcoming LP “Gorgeous” [Celluloid Lunch Records]
• Enoshima, Japan experimental ambient jazz /psychedelic pop /folk trio Maya Ongaku “Astral Echoes” from the second album “Nothing Space Music” [Guruguru Brain / Bayon Production]
• California electronic /art-pop /psychedelic pop music project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Maryam Qudus, aka Spacemoth “Flower Memory” from “Inward Eye” [Greenway Records]
• East London–based cinematic /noir /alternative /indie /dream pop artist Lola Wild “On and On” single
  
• Leeds, UK–based alt pop /electro-pop artist Pick The Flowers “Blindside” single
  
• New York-based new wave /post-punk /dream-pop musician Frankie Rose “Cant Be Wrong” from upcoming LP “HILA” [Night School / Born Losers Records]
• UK-based experimental /psych /shoegaze /dream pop /art-pop collective Firestations “An Apparition” from the upcoming LP “International Dust” [Lost Map Records]
• San Francisco-based C86 /twee /indie /jangle pop husband and wife duo The Chutes “Scraping the Last Bits of Light” off upcoming debut self-titled LP [Dandy Boy Records]
• Copenhagen-based international DIY C86 /indie pop band formed in 2023, Josie “Oh Boy!” ltd. 2-track 7″ single [Precious Recordings of London]
• Clare, Australia jangly /dream pop /indie pop-rock recording project of Caleb Carr, aka “Could’ve” single
  
• Greece dreamy indie-pop band from Thessaloniki, Ta Toy Boy “Summer Pray” single [Make Me Happy records]
• French indie pop solo project of Jean-Francois Cantot, aka LIBERTY BELLE “Judy” from “11 Songs” LP [Subjangle]
• Clare, Australia C86 /jangle indie-pop band fronted by songwriter Joel Carr, The Boltons “In Idle Romance” 2-track single
  
• Indonesia indie pop /jangle /C86 /noise pop band MAISONETTE “Have no soul” from “SIN” LP [forfun.cookies]
• Philadelphia-based summertime pop /dream pop /jangle /indie pop home recording by Art DiFuria (Photon Band), Hippi Jonni “Susan Seashell” single
  
• Indie pop-rock project of prolific New York songwriter Nate Amos (of Water From Your Eyes), This is Lorelei “Billy Came Back” from upcoming LP “The Singer in My Band” [Matador Records]
• Bern-based, Swiss post-punk /indie rock-pop band No Phase “In Between” from the upcoming “Trigger” EP [Oh, Sister Records]
• London-based Welsh-fronted 4-piece jangle pop /power pop /indie rock band The Tubs “Who’s Gonna Love You Now?” lead single from the upcoming 3rd LP “Hard Life” [Merge Records]
• Cork, Ireland alternative pop /dream pop band led by childhood friends John Haggis (Band of Clouds, Gammy Origami and Speckled Doves) and Eddie Butt (Gothstar and Artic Lights), both founding members of Irish indie stalwarts ‘Emperor of Ice Cream’, aka Silver Owls “Blinded by the Darkness” single
  
• Berlin-based noise /shoegaze /dreamrock trio Roomer “For Yves” from their second album “Staircase Made of Rope” [Squama]
• Leicester, UK cosmic /psychedelic pop outfit The Junipers “Demo – She Makes the Sun Shine (Alternate Version)” from “Home Demos – The Solid and the Hollow” LP
  
• San José, Costa Rican dream pop /shoegaze band Las Robertas “Like A Flower” from “All We Need is Now” LP [Kanine Records / Spinda Records]
• South London’s janglegaze four-piece, The Draize “Colour Me Blue” single  
  
• Bradford, UK based Lynch inspired Shoegaze /Dreampop /Alt-Rock quintet Abandoned Buildings “Catching Ideas” from the EP “Objects Move Apart”
  
• Washington, DC dream pop /shoegaze /indie folk /indie rock band led by Jay Nemeyer, Color Palette “Killing It and Falling Apart” single
  
• Indianapolis, IN dream pop /shoegaze band Fern Murphy “Hanging Moon” single
  
• Brighton, UK-based ethereal shoegaze”dreampunk” quartet Winter Gardens “Fragile Boy” single [Austerity Records]
• Manchester, UK indie /shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Warahenege “A Matter of Nature” single
  
• Transatlantic new wave /dream-pop /gothic /indie trio formed in 2020 by US lyricist Lisa Ann Swain, Dutch producer/multi-instrumentalist Drew Campbell, and vocalist Anna Rea, Sleeps Under Beams “Vampyre Girl (O.Y.D.)” 2-track single [Subscotia Records]
• Paris-based five-piece Dream Pop /Post-Rock /Art-Rock / Shoegaze collective Pam Risourié “You, the drug and the rain” single from their upcoming second studio LP
  
• Montréal, Canada shoegaze / dreampop duo Bodywash “Come and Go” single
  
• Ontario alternative rock /fuzz /dream pop /shoegaze band Closeout “Unravel” single
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany dream-pop /shoegaze quintet, Attic Ocean “Sun” 3rd single from the upcoming EP “I promise I’ll try everyday”
  
• Boston, MA psych /dream-pop /shoegaze band led by Reuben Bettsak, aka Emerald Comets “Runway Out” single
  
• Rochester, NY dreamy /post-punk /indie rock /shoegaze band Bad Bloom “Tiny Ghost” single
  
• Northern California post-punk /shoegaze /dream pop quintet Soft Science “Spinning” from “Sand” LP [Shelflife Records (US) / Spinout Nuggets (UK)]
• Bandung, Indonesia 5-piece indie rock /shoegaze band Puremoon “Was I Ever Enough?” from “SPLIT” EP by ASHN / PUREMOON
  
• Indonesian 5-piece shoegaze /alternative rock band from Bandung, ASHN “Amber” from “SPLIT” EP by ASHN / PUREMOON
  
• Mexican post-rock/ ethereal blackgaze project by multi-instrumentalist and producer Victoria Carmilla H. (V.C.H.), aka A. Yólotl “Dalia (ft. Abriction)” from the split EP “Wistful Rain” by A. Yólotl / Abriction
  
• Windsor, ON Shoegaze /Dream Pop band Talking Violet “Chew” single
  
• St. Catharines, Ontario grunge /shoegaze /alternative rock band Der Fang “Forest For The Trees” title track of the new LP “Forest For The Trees”
  
• Dutch post metal /heavy shoegaze multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Ruben Vermeulen, Funus “Caged Liberty” off upcoming nine-track album, “Dreamless Water” [Noon Records]
• Rome, Italy grailcore /post-punk /shoegaze /noise rock 5-piece band (members of La Casa Al Mare, Sea Dweller, Black Hamada, Clangore, Dallas), My last Rodeo “Fairytales” from the 2-track single “Dolomiti/Fairytales”
  
• Seattle-based shoegaze /psych-rock collective New Age Healers “Moored” from upcoming “Blowing Smoke Through The Choir” LP
  
• Sweden fuzzy shoegaze instrumental doom-pop solo project Kitten Paws “fuzzionalsången” final single
  
• Bologna, Italy alt-rock /garage duo Detari “Voodoo Transmission” debut single
  
• Edinburgh, Scotland dark atmospheric post-rock /post-punk /psychedelic /shoegaze duo of musicians Brian Jordan and Colan Miles, Sun Shines Cold “Winters End” from the new album “Light Fades Into Ruins” [1991 Recordings]
• Kalmar, Sweden veteran post-punk /shoegaze band Loom “And Maybe The End Is Not Final” single [Rundgång Rekords]
• Milton Keynes, UK drone /indie /fuzz /psychedelic rock band Luxury Sound Division “Mojo” from “Set it straight” EP
  
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, 4-piece ethereal shoegaze /garage /space /psychedelic rock band (former members of Mr. Airplane Man, The Concerns, The Konks), Daughter of The Vine “Holy is the Sun” title track of the second album “Holy is the Sun”
  
• Finnish post-rock /progressive /psychedelic rock collective, Onségen Ensemble “A Thought” off the fifth album “A Tale”
  
• Dublin, Ireland alt-rock /indie rock band Basht “Keira Knightley” single from the upcoming debut album “Poor Advice” [LAB Records]
• North-East of England‘s psychedelic garage soul trio Thee Strawberry Mynde “Actions” 7″ single produced by Graham Day [Chaputa! Records]
• Paris-based power pop /punk pop all-girl band ROBERTA LIPS “Coup De Bluff” ltd. 7″ single [Le Cèpe Records / Les Disques Mauvais Garçons]
• Brooklyn, NY surf rock /garage /rock’n’roll /power pop band The Midnight Confessions “Looks So Easy” single
  
• Sydney, Australia post-punk /indie rock all girl trio Sweetie “Godzilla” single [Blossom Rot Records]
• Belfast, Northern Ireland alt-rock /grunge band GUSH “Constance” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY post-punk /grunge /alt-indie rock outfit Model Minority – “Somersault” from V/A “CONCRETE ROCK – New York DIY” compilation LP [Desert Island Recordings]
• Columbia, Missouri indie rock band HIGHWAY DEMON “What Hasn’t Happened Yet” single
  
• Sydney, Australia dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock trio Sleepy “Clean Clothes” single
  
• Szczecin, Poland experimental /psych /post-punk act PRZYPAU “Beatrice Russo” from the second LP “II” [Syf Records]
• Texas-based medieval-western psychedelic pop duo Tele Novella “Ring of Stones” single [Kill Rock Stars]
• Nashville-based, Australian indie-folk/Americana singer-songwriter Emma Swift “Visions of Johanna (Live at Layman Drug Company)” 2-track 7″ single of Bob Dylan cover versions, live in Nashville on December 11, 2025 [Tiny Ghost Records]