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

• TREMOLO: 2025 Playlist
  

Once again, WL//WH is thrilled to support Seattle‘s  Tremolo Fest 2025, three nights of electrifying music with incredible bands on September 25-27. Tickets are already on pre-sale, just follow this link.

• Salerno, Italy shoegaze /jangly dream-pop solo project I’m the Villain “Breathin” second single from the upcoming LP
  

The latest of the two recently dropped singles, following the jangly arpeggiated guitar-laden“Guitar falling on the floor”, is the emotional-ridden mid-tempo, synthy dreampop sound of “Breathin” that unfolds a crisp hypnotic drum machine and undulating, chugging bass loops, layered with nostalgic glowing synths and glistening sad guitar melodies, swirling and reverberating atop wistful, pensive vocals searching for meaning whilst letting go.

• Norway‘s 4-piece indie pop band centered on the songwriting brothers Ole Johannes and Jørn Åleskjær (also of The Loch Ness Mouse and collaborators of The Ladybug Transistor‘s Gary Olson), The Quarterlies “Keep Nothing” sophomore single taken from the upcoming EP via Greek label Old Bad Habits                                         

Second endearing single of breezy, stringed shimmery guitar-pop, inlaid with fizzing layers of bittersweet jangling melodies, and freeing distorted nostalgic flourishes, spliced with brief restive scraping riffs, pulses and sways alongside secretive, excited vocals getting rid of  diaries to make room for a journey.

• New York 4-piece grungegaze band Glimmer “Sorrow Again” single
  

New York 4-piece ushers in their July European tour by continuing to push the envelope of their noisy blend of dense shoegaze textures and melodic grunge heaviness, rooted in ’90s aesthetics, along with a sweet knack for harmonizing with wit and restraint, loud energy and dusty melancholy. A nagging sadness looms just below the surface of a shallow life, driving tumultuous emotional sways of stumbling rhythms and restrained crunchy and wailing fuzz-drenched guitar riffs, to carry anxious doom-laden vocals through waves of struggle and endless sorrow.

• Swedish cinematic /soul /jazz funk /orchestral pop composer Sven Wunder “Daybreak” title track of the upcoming fifth LP “Daybreak” [Piano Piano Records]
• Amsterdam-based ambient jazz /dream-pop /folk musician, composer and Melody As Truth label head (1/3 of Gaussian Curve), Jonny Nash “Bright Belief” from the upcoming LP “Once Was Ours Forever” [Melody As Truth]
• Los Angeles own longstanding r&b /dream pop duo of Ryan and Anji Lum, LOVESPIRALS “Okay” single
  
• Brighton, UK trip-hop /psychedelic jazz soul /electronic producer Asta Hiroki “Fall Into The Sun (feat. Emma Lucia)” single off forthcoming second solo full length album [Folded Music]
• London, UK ethereal /shoegaze /dream pop duo DEARY “I Still Think About You” from “I Still Think About You / No Ordinary Love” 7” single [Sonic Cathedral]
• Vienna emo /indie /slowcore /shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Sakura “glue” from 2-track single “glue / strange alien clay”
  
• Chicago-based instrumental indie /dreampop /shoegaze one-man project of Jason Hufford (formerly known as Linea Aspera), PALE COAST “Lake Wenatchee”
  
• Toronto, Canada indie rock /dream pop duo Babygirl “Take Me Back” single
  
• Wilmington, NC-based indie folk /dream pop project of Chicago-born multi-instrumentalist (former drummer of Jude Shuma, and Seven Houses), BLASE “Middle of Nowhere” off upcoming second LP “Somewhere Out There” [Fort Lowell Records]
• Brooklyn, NY art-pop /indie /synth-pop duo The Dream Eaters “Bury Me Under Aisle 3″ single
  
• Minnesota/Georgia indie rock /dream pop collaboration, Vansire & Orchid Mantis “Means So Much” single
  
• New Jersey garage-pop /folk /power pop /jangle-pop band Lightheaded “Me and Amelia Fletcher” from “Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!” EP [Skep Wax / Slumberland Records]
• Indie /jangle pop DIY project of Amsterdam-based music-blogger Estella Rosa and Münster-based multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Voss, Nah… “Tumbledown Weekend (They Go Boom!!)” from “Koffers: The Ultimate Cover Collection” album [Bureau Platiruma!!!]
• Edinburgh-based, 5-piece Scottish pop group born in the late 80s from the ashes of the Shop Assistants and Meat Whiplash, Motorcycle Boy “Under The Bridge (session)” from upcoming “John Peel session 14.09.87” EP 10″ [Precious Recordings of London]
• New Zealand indie-pop band formed in Auckland by Dons Savage, active from the latter half of the 1980s onward, Dead Famous People “Vampirella” (previously unreleased) from the album “Wild Young Ways” a collection of long-lost tracks from the late ’80s [Tiny Global Productions]
• Indonesia C86 /Twee /indie pop band Maisonette “Possible” from V/A “DELTA ECHO PAPA OSCAR KILO” compilation album [forfun.cookies]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Heart Shaped Swimming Pool” 31st single & the 1st single from the new upcoming album “The Curse Of The Atom” [Salt Mine Records]
• Bay Area 4-piece indie group led by vocalist Yea-Ming Chen (Yea-Ming and The Rumours), Ryli “I Think I Need You Around” off the new album, “Come and Get Me” [Dandy Boy Records]
• NYC-based, Western Massachusetts‘ indie pop trio Jeanines “Satisfied” from the 4th LP “How Long Can It Last” [Skep Wax (UK) / Slumberland Records (US)]
• Glasgow, Scotland DIY jangle /dream-pop project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Kay Terence, aka Swiss Portrait – “Connection Issues” single
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany-based jangly indie pop band The Radio Field “It’s Alright” single
  
• Chicago-born, LA-based garage rock /psych /power-pop /rock’n’roll musician Tom Henry “Do You Wanna Be With Me?” off the debut LP “Songs to Sing and Dance To” (with the contribution and production by Kai Slater of Sharp Pins) [Royal Oakie Records]
• Swedish indie rock quartet from Gothenburg, Great Hare “Hole Diggers” single
  
• Philadelphia-based shoegaze /dream pop /guitar rock band The Julies “Black Metal” single
  
• Mount Airy, North Carolina indie pop/rock band Janus 4-14 “Tattered Dreams” single from the upcoming release “Our Weird Little Songs”
  
• Melbourne jangly /shoegaze /dream pop duo Rocket Rules “Chapel St” from 2-track single “Quicken”
  
• Washington, D.C. indie folk /dream pop /indie rock band led by Jay Nemeyer, Color Palette “Nights Alone” single
  
• Ottawa, Ontario indie folk pop band led by Hannah Judge, aka fanclubwallet “Cotton Mouth” single [Lauren Records]
• Athens, Greece-based US nomadic art-pop /indie rock duo Beloved Binge “Reasons You Can Understand” single
  
• Madison, WI lo-fi /indie rock /slacker rock /noise pop /power pop band SLICK “The Perfect Pop Song” title track of the cassette EP “The Perfect Pop Song”
  
• Melbourne, Australia jangly garage pop band Girlatones “Only The best” single
  
• New York rock’n’roll /baroque pop girl group trio TCHOTCHKE “Poor Girl” single
  
• Beckley, West Virginia 5-piece indie rock /alternative rock band Sweet Tooth “Smile” WV flood victims fundraising single
  
• Oakland, California‘s 3-piece psych /shoegaze /fuzzy indie rock band The Queen & I “Everything Hurts” final single from the second album “At Peace”
  
• Chicago, IL alt-rock /shoegaze /indie rock project Lithia “Badlands” from the forthcoming debut LP “Pink House”
  
• Philadelphia, PA grunge /shoegaze /indie rock band Sacred Monsters “Old News” single
  
• Pittsburgh, PA dreamgaze /indie rock band Colatura “(Every Time I Think About You) It’s About Me” from “If I’m Being Honest” EP [Easy Does It Records]
• Tokyo, Japan 4-piece indie /dream pop /guitar pop band Ferri-Chrome – “Breath of Dawn” single 
• Noyabrsk, Russia indie rock /dream-pop /shoegaze one-man band Cats Never Die “In The Darkness” from “Bittersweet” LP
  
• San Diego, CA lofi /dream-pop / shoegaze solo project Cling Ring “Morningstar” from the LP “Goddess is Sleeping”
  
• Cincinnati dream pop /shoegaze band Left at Orion “Hey Cade” single
  
• LA/PDX trip-hop /shoegaze /dream-pop duo of Shaun Durkan & Bre Morell, aka Crushed “Starburn” lead single from upcoming debut LP “No Scope” [Ghostly International]
• Seattle-based noise-pop /shoegaze /indie rock trio Coral Grief “Paint By Number” from upcoming debut LP “Air Between Us” [Anxiety Blanket Records]
• Pontianak, Indonesian grunge /noise rock /shoegaze quartet Lullavile “Down” from “llierauoy” LP
  
• Tokyo, Japan-based alternative rock /fuzz pop /shoegaze band QUBINOIX – ブランコ（Swing) – single
  
• Belgian shoegaze band SLOW CRUSH “While You Dream Vividly” from upcoming third LP “Thirst” [Pure Noise Records]
• Berlin-based alt rock /grunge /shoegaze four-piece YEAHRS “Eyes In The Wall” from “DREAMLAND” EP
  
• Spanish shoegaze band from Barcelona, Salvana “Desierta” second single of the upcoming debut album
  
• Pittsburgh-based alt rock /dream pop /shoegaze band Eyewash “Brine” off “Dividing Line” EP
  
• Kansas City, Missouri-based post-hardcore /slowcore /shoegaze /noise rock band Flooding “Depictions of the female body” from “Object 1” EP
  
• L.A.-based alt /grungy /psych /fuzz rock songwriter-guitarist Alexandra Elaine Tapié, aka Alex E.T. “Summer For Now” from the second LP “Color Of Strange” [Curation Records]
• Bradford, UK Shoegaze /Psychedelic /Indie Rock quintet, Abandoned Buildings “Testament” (previously unreleased) from “Fragments” EP (live studio recordings and unused songs from previous albums)
  
• Los Angeles, CA garage rock /post-punk /shoegaze /psychedelic rock trio The Noir Dalis “AWAKE” from the album “Rise” [Shore Dive Records]
• Kent, UK-based Baroque Pop /Northern Soul/Mod /Garage/Power Pop /Psychedelic Pop project by Papernut Cambridge‘s Ian Button (formerly guitarist with Death In Vegas, Thrashing Doves) and Allan Crockford (of The Galileo 7, The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet, The Solar Flares etc), The Penrose Web “Hexapod Scene” from the LP “The Least Of Our Concerns” [Spinout Nuggets]
• Philadelphia‘s shoegaze /indie /psychedelic rock band led by singer-songwriter Russell Edling, aka Golden Apples “Noonday Demon” from upcoming 4th LP “Shooting Star” [Lame-O Records]
• Queensland, Australia ambient /kraut /space psychedelic rock instrumental project Trigona “Sun Valley” off 3-track “Neon Wave” EP
  
• New York-based indie rock /post-rock band Moving Mountains – “Ghosts” off the 4th LP “Pruning Of The Lower Limbs” [Wax Bodega]
• Philadelphia-based 3-piece experimental /grunge /noise /psych /indie rock band of Sia Dokos, Justus Proffit & Eli Sheppard, Halloween “Spiral Staircase” from the forthcoming LP “Shadow House”
  
• San Francisco based avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated experimental musicians Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire), Orcutt Shelley Miller “A Star Is Born” from the upcoming s/t album “Orcutt Shelley Miller” [Silver Current Records]
• Folk /Shoegaze / Neo-Psychedelic rock band from Norway, Rancho Relaxo “Friend Of Mine” from the upcoming LP “Manipulation Of The Thalamus”
  
• Los Angeles-based indie rock /kraut /garage /psych punk noise band led by John Dwyer (aka Thee Oh Sees, OCS, The Oh Sees, etc), Osees “Fight Simulator” off the new album, “Abomination Revealed at Last” [Deathgod Records]
• New York-based Californian rock’n’roll /fuzz psych garage rockers The Mystery Lights “Before You Realize It” from double A-side 7″single “Before You Realize It b/w Cerebral Crack” [Daptone Records]
• Vancouver, BC 4-piece rock & roll /power pop band Star Collector “Everything Must Go!” title track of the upcoming LP “Everything Must Go!”
  
• Delaware County, Pennsylvania garage /r&b /rock’n’roll /power pop band The Jive “Good Time Call” from “Extended Play” EP [Rum Bar Records]
• Seattle, WA 4-piece indie /jangle /power pop band The Rallies “Love” single
  
• Milwaukee psych /power-pop band Trolley “A Carnival of Grey & White” 30th year celebration single
  
• Limestone Coast, South Australia folk /indie rock /shoegaze /dreampop brainchild of Indie Guitarist-Songwriter-Producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “The Ballad of Calamity Jane” single
  
• Montreal, Quebec experimental electronic rock /shoegaze project of Jasamine White-Gluz, No Joy “Bits” from the 5th LP “Bugland” co-produced with Fire-Toolz [Sonic Cathedral / Hand Drawn Dracula]
• Los Angeles trip-hop /frutiger aero pop /power pop /dream pop duo After “300 dreams” from “After” EP
  
• Chicago-based DIY shoegaze /post-punk /dream-pop /synth-pop project of singer, composer and musician Alessia Kato, aka Ghost Days “Say a Prayer” single
  
• London-based dream pop /synthpop solo project of Marianthi (one half of Greek duo Marsheaux), MeLLLo “MidNighT” single
  
• Barcelona art-pop electronic duo Hidrogenesse “Imaginado es todo” (lyrics from 1977 Álvaro Pombo poem) single
  
• Los Angeles chamber /indie rock /folk singer-songwriter Brookelen “Maze” from the sophomore EP “Going Going Gone”
  
• Darlington, UK chamber pop /alternative folk singer-songwriter Jodie Nicholson “We Can Talk ft. The Early Purple” from the collaborative “We Can Talk” EP
  
• UK ambient /dream pop /post-rock /guitar project of Ben Holton (epic45, My Autumn Empire), AKA Birds In The Brickwork “Houses Facing Seawards” from the EP “Coastal Study #1” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]