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

• Melbourne-based jangle pop /indie rock trio (members of Chook Race and Peach Time), The Small Intestines “Horse Riding” from the upcoming first album “Hide in Time” via Meritorio Records and Lost and Lonesome
  

First single for a new trio from Down Under, reminiscent of Dunedin guitar pop and smooth Pavement slacker tones, that winds wistful and nostalgic moods through shy jangly ripples of sparkling repetitive arpeggios, laced with vibrant scratchy riffs, over, a ruffled and clattery rousing rhythm section, whilst drawling high-angst vocals, wallowing in hard times, let go of relentless flows of regret and shame. It may be bent to predictable hooks, but the appeal and freshness are assured.

• Melbourne, Australia lo-fi /bedroom /jangle /indie pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (FKA Candy), Calum Newton AKA Candy Moore “Laugh At Nothing” from the LP “Anything, Always”
  

New single from Melbourne, this time definitely filled with resonant jangle tones and apparently more uplifting, that swirl over vibrant, sparkling yet claustrophobic streams of urgent drum beats, warm lithe and resonant bassline throbs, twinkling obsessive guitar melodies and shivering glows, to surround lively nervous sad vocals and anxious echoes, longing to help another, with endless dreams of happiness. Once again an endearing and shimmering pop tune from Calum Newton as he has consistently accustomed us to over the years.

• Klang Valley, Malaysia Shoegaze /Nugaze band The World Ends With You “Lorelai” debut single
  

Newcomer Shoegaze outfit from Malaysia with their first compelling and lyrically heart-rending effort that billows and startles, stirred by unbearable suffering, between squealing, ringing swells of buzzing guitar distortion, high-pitched excruciating frequencies and contemplative whispery undertows, over ephemeral, detached vocals begging not to be abandoned, whilst fading desperately beneath the rackety tumultuous doom.

• Australian jazz /classical /folk musical project for Melbourne songwriter Oliver Mestitz, aka The Finks “Normal” from the album “Birthdays at Solo Pasta” via Milk! Records
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• Brooklyn, NY ambient /dream pop collective led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez, Cigarettes After Sex “Stop Waiting” from 2-track 7″ single “Bubblegum” on Partisan Records
  
• New York-based ambient /dream pop /ethereal /shoegazey artist Rosa Pajaro “Memory” single on Fire Talk imprint Open Tab
  
• Glasgow, UK indie rock /folk songwriter Kim Grant, aka Raveloe “Rustle in the Leaves” single from the debut album on Olive Grove Records
  
• Athens, Greece trip-hop /indie /dream pop trio, the Model Spy “Sky Meet The Sea (Radio Edit) feat. VASSIŁINA” single via Just Gazing Records
  
• Brisbane, Australia Electro-Pop analog synth singer-songwriter, Seja “Time to the Brim” from the single “Here is One I Know You Know” on It Records
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden C86 /Balearic /indie pop trio (members of Agent Blå, Makthaverskan, Westkust, Amateur Hour, Enhet För Fri Musik), TYPICAL GIRLS “Namaste” from the new EP “Charity”                             
• Zagreb, Croatia shoegaze /dream pop /synth-pop duo TTI-21 “Efemerija” single
  
• Salisbury, UK lo-fi /psych-pop /indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, Oliver Flanagan “A Little Understanding” from the album “If You Call My Number”
  
• Taos, New Mexico kraut /shoegaze /dream pop/ psych/ folk duo of Lauren Green (Mirror Travel) and Marissa Macias, aka TAN COLOGNE “Visitation” single on Labrador Records
  
• ’90s New York-based ambient /drone /psych /indie rock band Madder Rose “Lou Mistery” from the upcoming 6th album “No One Gets Hurt Ever” via Trome Records
  
• San Francisco-based indie jangle minimal pop duo of Carly Putnam (The Oilies, The Mantles) and Glenn Donaldson (The Reds Pinks and Purples, The Telephone Numbers), aka HELPFUL PEOPLE “Protection Energy” from the upcoming album “BROKENBLOSSOM THREATS” on Burundi Cloud Music
  
• Minimalist lo-fi dream /jangle guitar pop project of Jimmy Hewitt (formerly Orca Orca) based in Northampton, MA, LOST FILM “Little Things Forever” from the upcoming vinyl 12″ album “Keep It Together” via Relief Map Records
  
• Denver, CO jangle pop /indie rock 5-piece band Mainland Break “One Way Ticket to Midnight” title track from the first LP “One Way Ticket to Midnight”
  
• Early ’90s founded Melbourne-based jangle /indie rock band Tender Engines “Infant Star 90” from “Tea Tree Hill” EP
  
• Brisbane, Australia bedroom indie /shoegaze /dream-pop project of Julian Francis Pearce, aka J. Francis “Anxious Mind” from the album “Still In Love With Dreams” vinyl 12″ via Doom Cat Records
  
• Victoria, Australia shoegaze /folk /psych /dream pop trio Pyrex – “Beautiful Creature” from the upcoming debut LP “Noise For No Reason”
  
• Hastings, UK dream pop /shoegaze /folk /psych /electronic pop solo venture of Lush co-founder, Emma Anderson “Bend The Round” from the debut album “Pearlies” in collaboration with producer James Chapman (aka Maps) via Sonic Cathedral
  
• 1984 founded Bristol, UK C86 /wave /indie pop 5-piece band, The Five Year Plan “Six Feet Under” from the upcoming vinyl 12″ album “1985” (the long-lost debut LP by the Five Year Plan, written in 1984/85 but never properly recorded until now) co-release between Old Bad Habits label and Breaking Down Recordings
  
• Adelaide, Australia-based home-recorded ambient /shoegaze /noise /jangle pop project of guitarist Joel Carr (The Fields, English Summer), Go Season “Moving On” single
  
• Anglo-German kraut /C86 /jangle /dream pop /indie pop 4-piece The BV’s “Warp (extended version)” from upcoming “Warp” EP 12″ via Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
  
• Liverpool, UK dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock solo project, a Lesser Version “Dead (Or Dying)” second single from the sophomore album
  
• Münster, Germany jangle pop /indie guitar rock band The No Colour Twins “Man Living On Heaven Hill” from the new LP “Back and Forth” on Bureau Platiruma!!!
  
• Los Angeles-based alt/jangle /indie pop rock singer-songwriter (Jacky Boy, Bugg, Angel Du$t), Steve Marino “Satisfy You” from the upcoming LP “Too Late To Start Again” via Pop Wig Records
  
• Wilmington, NC-based indie rock project of guitarist and composer (former member of late ’80s band Brickbat), James Sardone “Life of Love” from “Colors” EP on Fort Lowell Records
  
• Los Angeles-band West Coast pop-rock band led by singer/songwriter Brent Rademaker (members of Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Beachwood Sparks, Circles Around The Sun, The Tyde, and Hard Working Americans), GospelbeacH “York Blvd.” from the single “I’ll Close My Eyes & York Blvd.” on Curation Records
  
• Swedish dark wave /shoegaze /electronic solo project of Göteborg‘s musician Andreas Lindh, aka  D4RKSTAR “End of Days” from the single “End of Days / Friendly Fire”
  
• Seoul, South Korea dream pop /indie pop band Orange Flavored Cigarettes “Melting Tides” single
  
• Manila, Philippines dream pop /indie pop project of Pauline Rana, aka The Purest Blue – “Tenderness and Purity” single from the debut LP “All is True” [Kolibri Rekords]
• San Francisco-based indie /dream-pop /stargaze duo Night Hikes “Keeper of Reality” title track of the third album “Keeper of Reality”
  
• Portland, OR indie /dream pop project of Griffin Washburn, aka Goth Babe “Bioluminescence” single on Mom+Pop
  
• Chicago, Illinois lo-fi /indie /shoegaze /dream pop solo project COOL HEAT “Lake” from “Permanence” EP on Spirit Goth Records
  
• Indianapolis, Indiana alternative powerpop band MANA “Another Night” from the debut S/T EP
  
• Colchester, UK shoegaze /indie rock band She’s In Parties “Summer Haze” single
  
• Munich, Germany indie /dream pop solo project Phantom Youth “1999” single on Spirit Goth Records
  
• Perth, Australia shoegaze /indie pop band Blue Honey “Sick & Tired” title track from the new EP “Sick & Tired”
  
• Polish shoegaze /post-rock four-piece band from Poznań, Mamidło “Yearning for more” off of debut s/t EP
  
• Shah Alam, Malaysia ambient /dream pop /shoegaze band DASAWARSA MY “DESØLATIØN” from debut single “HITAM/PUTIH”
  
• Colorado shoegaze /slowcore duo Overhang “Wither” from the debut S/T EP
  
• Ukrainian dreampop /shoegaze band from Kyiv, Mainlight “Time” single
  
• Polish noise rock /shoegaze band from Głogów, Heathermint “Lissa (Unfortunate)” single
  
• Boston, Massachusetts dream pop /indie rock /shoegaze band Beta Hands “On Our Heels” from the debut EP “Pretty Cage”
  
• UK shoegaze pioneers Slowdive “Skin in the Game” from the forthcoming 5th album “Everything is Alive” on Dead Oceans
  
• São Paulo, Brazil alternative dream pop /noise /shoegaze band Echo Upstairs – “All the stars” from the EP “Il Mondo” on midsummer madness
  
• Brisbane, Australia ambient /shoegaze /dream pop solo project of Jade Tyers, aka RELAY TAPES “Looks Like Rain” single
  
• Los Angeles, CA indie rock /psychedelic / shoegaze band FILM SCHOOL “All I’ll Ever Be” from the upcoming album “Field” on Felte Records
  
• New Brunswick, NJ shoegaze /dream pop /indie rock outfit, San Tropez “Pleasant Present” from the CD album “Maybe Tomorrow” via Shore Dive Records [originally released at the start of 2023 on Mint 400 Records]
• Gothenburg/Seoul based dream /noise pop /shoegaze band Haemi “Velvet Love” from the debut LP “Something Sad to Say”
  
• Riverside, CA grungegaze /shoegaze /indie rock solo project of songwriter Adalbert Arevalo, aka End of the Echo “See the Waves, Hear the Trees” single
  
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia grungegaze /heavy gaze duo Voidsoul “Leaves” debut single
  
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma indie rock /shoegaze /dream-pop trio Mad Honey “Concentration” from the album “Satellite Aphrodite” via Deathwish Inc. & Sunday Drive Records
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK electronic /psych /shoegaze /dream pop band Waves of Dread “Motion” single
  
• Post-rock /dream pop /shoegaze project Marlène Chiapas “Never Listen” from the debut EP “I Just Want To Feel Stuff”
  
• Japan electronic /drum&bass /shoegaze project Theredone “Sink Deep To Dark” single produced by YAF (cosmicdust)
  
• Philadelphia, PA psychedelic /dream pop /shoegaze band founded in 2019 by Matthew Paul Whiteford, Cigarettes for Breakfast “Hollywood Daydream” from the album “Join the Circus”                                               
• Fort Wayne, Indiana shoegaze /dream pop band Necromoon “It Was So Good To See You” single from the upcoming LP “Nature Makes Our Graves For Us”
  
• French goth /darkwave /shoegaze /blackgaze solo project of Parisian artist Remi Lauvergne, AKA Sad Madona “Chloroform” single
  
• US post-rock /metal /shoegaze /blackgaze artist Damián Antón Ojeda, AKA Sadness “Something’s missing” from Sadness/Kenopsia‘s split album “Summerset Streetlights” on Canti Eretici (tape)
  
• North American ambient /drone /kraut /cosmic disco /psychedelic /wave /experimental music project led by Kip Uhlhorn, aka Cloudland Canyon “Spacebar Blues” from S/T album [Medical Records]
• South-East London-based Irish two-piece electro-indie band, Martello “West” from the upcoming debut  EP “Strawberry Blonde”
  
• Cardiff-based slacker /indie rock outfit Hyll “Mike” upcoming on Recordiau Jigcal Records
  
• Caldicot, South Wales garage rock trio The Bug Club “Short And Round” from the double sophomore album “Rare Birds: Hour of Song” 2xLP via Bingo Records
  
• San Jose, CA noise indie pop quartet STAR 99 “Girl” from the upcoming LP “Bitch Unlimited” on Lauren Records
  
• Detroit area-based DIY sleaze-rock /anti-folk hero Christopher Alan Durham (The Bibs, All Gone Recs) and his pals (ex-Quilt Boy/Roachclip cohorts), aka Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers “Newest Thing” from “Kicks or Macabre” album [Soft Abuse]
• Argentina‘s garage /indie rock duo Pacifica “Premature Rejection” third single and title track  from the upcoming second LP “Premature Rejection”
  
• Luxembourg-based artist bedroom pop /indie-rock project of singer-songwriter Jana Bahrich AKA Francis of Delirium “Real Love” single
  
•  Seattle, WA shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Natalie Lew, aka Sea Lemon “Vaporized” off upcoming EP “Stop at Nothing” on Luminelle
  
• Decade-long NYC-based symphonic folk pop project of Jordan Lee and collaborators, aka Mutual Benefit “Little Ways” off the upcoming new album “Growing at the Edges” via Transgressive
  
• Brighton, UK country /indie folk singer-songwriter Lisa Osborne – “Momma’s Echoes” single from upcoming debut LP
  
• London-based ambient /avant-garde pop Nigerian artist, Tony Njoku “The Reset (Revised)” off the new EP “Sketches and Noodles of Bloom” on PRAH Recordings