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.

• Indonesian DIY bedroom indie-jangle pop band led by songwriter Ganesh, The Silent Love “Future wishes” from the 2-track single “I deserve more than a maybe” [disanorak]

Simultaneously dropped alongside the single from Race, with whom he shared a split EP last January, two captivating guitar-driven, jangling, melodic pop tunes from the band led by experienced songwriter, Ganesha. The upbeat, airy mid-tempo lead track, infused with an infectious The Go-Betweens strain, sways on sparkling stringed guitar riffs, shimmering nostalgically over loving, honest vocals, longing for more love after a confession, evokes a lukewarm response. More reflective, yet equally as heartfelt and breezy, the trembling, glistening b-side highlights stirring, reflective vocals, lost in a daydream of yearning.

• Raleigh, NC dream pop /shoegaze four-piece QWILT “Cross My Heart” from the debut s/t EP
  

The self-dubbed supergroup from the heart of Raleigh, NC serves up in just over fifteen minutes of their debut EP, an immersive, emotionally charged wandering of noisy, saturated Shoegaze energy combined with sparkling, introspective realms of sugary, dreamlike vocal melodies. One of the songs that stuck out to me, in a work with no filler, was “Cross My Heart,” about a touching childhood memory, stirs slightly scratching, shimmery strummed guitars and rippling, twinkling chords to incessantly cocoon patient, gentle heartfelt vocals, layered with glorious celestial haloes, with sadness, joy, and tenderness.

• Portland, OR-based alternative rock /dreamgaze /shoegaze four-piece band Kallai “The Wave” single from the forthcoming debut LP “We Are Forever” [Little Cloud Records]

Inspired by Susan Stryker‘s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix”, a paper about how individuals who do not conform to traditional gender norms are marginalized or excluded, often facing social rejection and stigma. Infused with an enveloping and stirring Dreamgaze flair, light buzzing fuzz-laden mists hover above sharp, wistful, sparkling guitar melodies, rippling vibrant pain-filled tears through light humming bass pulses and muffled off-tempo drum beats, while soft, high, fragile vocals, of a timid child-like quality, fall fearfully through a tumultuous whirlwind of raging emotions.

• Parisian ambient /IDM /leftfield /downtempo /hypnagogic pop /electronic project, Helen Island “I know 3 45 (alt. take)” from upcoming “Silence Extended” EP [Knekelhuis]
• Berlin-based Northern Spanish trip-hop /electronic sound artist, DJ and producer Silvia Jiménez Alvarez, aka JASSS “Hollow” off upcoming LP “Eager Buyers” [AWOS]
• Leeds, UK dreampop /dreamwave /electro-pop duo Lines of Flight “Slow Violence” from Double A-side single “Wilderness // Slow Violence”
  
• Oakland, CA lo-fi /electronic /indie folk duo Dog Eyes “Bluebird” from “Blue Bird Rain Cloud” EP [Grand Jury Music]
• Indie pop /folk recording project of Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter Vincent Cacchione, Caged Animals “Alligator” single [You’ve Changed Records]
• Chicago duo goth /post-punk /shoegaze /synth-pop /electronic duo Rani Young and Jason Kersting, aka Girl Detective “Like a Rose” from the debut LP “Photo Booth”
  
• Austin, TX-based post-punk /shoegaze /sophistipop band fronted by Nicolas Nadeau, Single Lash “More Than This” (Roxy Music cover)
  
• Oakland-based, Australian-born dream pop /indie pop musician Hazel English “Baby Blue” single
  
• Christchurch, NZ dream-pop /indie rock band Yumi Zouma – “Cross My Heart and Hope to Die” single [Nettwerk]
• Reykjavík, Icelandic dream-pop /indie rock duo Sigurlaug Thorarensen and Julius Pollux Rothlaender, aka BSÍ “The Shape” from “sendu mig” EP [Tomatenplatten]
• Leeds, UK lo-fi /dream pop /indie rock project of singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Joel Johnston, aka Far Caspian “The Sound Of Changing Place” from the third album “Autofiction” [Tiny Library Records]
• Brooklyn, NY  folk /slowcore /shoegaze duo Headlamp “Lucky” from the debut cassette LP “East By Sailing West” [Candlepin Records]
• Trieste, Italy goth /alternative /post-rock /psych /dream rock /shoegaze project of painter, poet, songwriter and music producer Andrej Kralj, aka A Day in Venice “You are in the now” single
  
• Lacanau, France bedroom dream pop /surf pop /indie rock band Layday “Favorite girl” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Leipzig, Germany bedroom /dream-pop /folk /synth-pop /avant-pop band led by songwriter Alexander Günther, Blumes “Thoughts Of The Unpopular” from the LP “Wondering Why” [Mangel / Adagio830]
• California lo-fi /psych /indie rock /folk /experimental multi-instrumentalists Peter Kris & Tara Tavi (Amps For Christ, German Army, Auto Da Fe, Concrete Colored Paint, and Body Habitat), Kris & Tavi “Leopard Water Panther” from the cassette album “Passing Through” [Post Present Medium]
• San Francisco-based psych /shoegaze /indie rock four-piece Galore “Solastalgia” off the second full-length album, “Dirt” [Speakeasy Studios SF]
• Manchester, UK jangly /indie rock /dream pop DIY one-man band of Mathew Mills, aka Goodbye Wudaokou “Only Questions” from the forthcoming sophomore album via Subjangle
  
• Eastern Massachusetts/Southern Vermont jangle /noise pop /indie rock four-piece band (members of Huevos II, Luxor Rentals, Sore Eros, Jeanines and Estrogen Highs), Creative Writing “Can’t Thank You Enough” first single from the debut album “Baby Did This” [Meritorio Records]
• Seattle, WA-based lo-fi /twee /indie pop musician (aka Imaginary Best Friend), Carter C “Ralph” from the album “There Is Always a Goodbye” [Friend’s House Records]
• Queens, NY jangle /indie retro pop singer and songwriter, Danielle Salomon, aka Majorette “Steaks” 2-track single
  
• Austin, Texas veteran indie rock band, Voxtrot “The Start of Something” from the 2-track charity single “The Wild Honey Pie Dinner Party” [Cult Hero Records]
• Brooklyn, NY-based psych /power pop /guitar rock alter ego of indie-rock troubadour John Brodeur, aka Bird Streets “Mistaker” from the upcoming third full-length “The Escape Artist”
  
• New York rock’n’roll /baroque pop girl group trio TCHOTCHKE “Now I Love You” single
  
• Boston, MA retro power pop /mod pop trio The Chelsea Curve “Kindawanna” single
  
• Greenock, Scottish jangle /C86 DIY indie pop sister duo The Cords “Fabulist” from The Cords s/t debut album [Skep Wax / Slumberland Records]
• London, UK indie garage-pop trio Cheerbleederz “I deserved better” single
  
• Montreal, Canada, Gazey Post-Punk four-piece SEAVER “Rebel Cure” from the debut EP “impermanence” [Velouria Recordz]
• San Francisco alt rock /reggae /indie /punk rock outfit Spiritual Cramp “At My Funeral” single
  
• London-based art rock /indie rock trio Pynch “Post-Punk / New-Wave” first single from the sophomore LP “Beautiful Noise” [Chillburn Recordings]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “London Town (feat. Lenny Helsing)” from the upcoming 15th album “The Curse Of The Atom” [Salt Mine Records]
• Ottawa, Ontario noise pop /post-punk /synth-pop /mumblewave solo act (member of fanclubwallet), Neurotypes “Love in Blue” single off “Violence District” EP [Club Records]
• Glasgow, UK  prog /art rock /indie /electro-pop solo project Peter Cat “Mango Season” single [Trapped Animal Records]
• Legendary Stockholm‘s dream pop /synthpop trio, Red Sleeping Beauty “Could Have Been Me – Late Nights Version (feat. Julia Lannerheim)” from the new LP “Music For Late Nights”
  
• London, UK-based psych /kraut /melodic indie pop band led by wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass (The Melons) and Tim Vass (Razorcuts), Silver Biplanes “Coming Up For Air” title track of the upcoming EP “Coming Up For Air” [Precious Recordings of London / wiaiwya Records]
• Melbourne-based, Rural New South Wales-bred lo-fi dream-pop /indie rock trio Redspencer “This is the Day” first single from Redspencer’s 3rd Album “Primal Urges”
  
• Washington, DC emo dreampop/ indie rock band Pretty Bitter “Thrill Eater” from the LP “Pleaser” [Tiny Engines]
• New Zealand alternative rock /indie /dream pop solo project Quiet Ruin “Control” final single from the EP “Trim the Thread”
  
• Brooklyn, New York dreamgaze /dreampop /indie rock band Project Diem “Glow” second single from the upcoming album “Dead Pop”
  
• Austin, TX-based experimental /ambient /shoegaze solo project of Haley Davidson, aka Dottie “Celestine” from the album “Intention”
  
• Muscle Shoals, Alabama ambient /indie rock /dream-pop /shoegaze duo Sister Ray Davies “Aidan” first single from upcoming LP “Holy Island” [Sonic Cathedral]
• New Orleans, Louisiana alternative rock /shoegaze /dream-pop band Glish “Ciel” single
  
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania shoegaze /dreampop one-man band, ShawnSongs “Eternity” from “Ephemeral” EP
  
• Brooklyn, NY dreamgaze band Makeout City “Sinking Down Again” single
  
• Athens, Greece 4-piece psych /shoegaze /indie rock band UVVUTV “Empty” from “Things Don’t Always…” EP [Patari Records]
• Toronto, Canada post punk /post-rock /indie rock /shoegaze 4-piece Mount Mural “Lonely Sun” from the debut s/t album
  
• Oakland, CA-based Psych /Dream Pop /Indie Rock /Shoegaze band Welcome Strawberry “Desperate Flower” title track of the LP “Desperate Flower” [à La Carte Records / Cherub Dream Records]
• Saint Petersburg-based shoegaze /dream pop band Blankenberge “Our Home Our Planet” from the album “Decisions” [Automatic Music]
• Vancouver post-punk /dreampop /shoegaze band Bloom Effect “Itero” single
  
• Aberdeen, Scotland alternative /indie /noise /shoegaze band Moody Moody “Controller” single 
• Rancho Cucamonga, CA emo /drea-pop /noise /post-shoegaze squad COLD GAWD “Golden Postcard” single [Dais Records]
• Harrisonburg, Virginia-based Iraqi indie rock /grunge /shoegaze solo project nabeel / نبيل – “wasal – واصل” from the debut LP “ghayoom – غيوم”
  
• Seoul, South Korea experimental shoegaze /post-rock /indie rock solo project of Gyungwon Shin (Gyn), Asian Glow “Cans in Vain” single
  
• Portland, OR 4-piece noise rock /slowcore /shoegaze band Icecaps “Bug Eyes” single
  
• Surabaya, Indonesia indie rock unit Brunobauer “Pagi Di Kota” from “…Are The Best Lovers” EP [Guerrilla Records]
• Muscle Shoals, Alabama ambient /indie rock /dream-pop /shoegaze duo Sister Ray Davies “Aidan” first single from upcoming LP “Holy Island” [Sonic Cathedral]
• Perth, Australia acid house /psych /electronic band led by Kevin Parker, aka Tame Impala “End Of Summer” single from upcoming 5th LP [Columbia Records]
• London, UK shoegaze /indie rock /psychedelic rock solo project Oats “Datura Dreams” single
  
• Adelaide, Australia 3-piece Synth /Psych /Drone /Reverb /Fuzz / Delay band Night Rites “Waiting for my Spaceman” from the upcoming debut LP “Nine of Swords” [Little Cloud Records/Cardinal Fuzz Records]
• Denver, CO post-punk /garage /punk /psychedelic rock four-piece led by Ryan Wong (Cool Ghouls), Supreme Joy “Ottawa” from the LP, “410,757,864,530 Dead Carps” [Vod Records]
• Germany noise /kraut /psychedelic rock trio Kombynat Robotron “Ikarus” from the 7th LP “AANK” [Fuzz Club Records]
• Brooklyn, New York lo-fi /slowcore /noise /indie rock band Bloodsports “Rosary” from upcoming LP “Anything Can Be A Hammer” [Good English Records]
• Dublin, Irish 3-piece garage punk band Adore “Stay Free Old Stranger” off debut EP “BITER” [Big Scary Monsters]
• Seattle fuzz garage /psych-surf trio Acapulco Lips “Welcome To The Other Side” from the LP “Now” [Killroom Records]
• Melbourne, Australia 4-piece alternative /grunge /garage /psych rock band Bad Bangs “LBD” single [Blossom Rot Records]
• Tampere, Finnish funkrock /indie rock /psychedelic rock VoodooV – “Third Eye Candy” single
  
• Columbus, OH alt-country /indie rock singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless “There Is a Beach on Walnut Street” single
  
• California/Danish dream pop four-piece Moon Panda “Lost World” from the third album, “Dumb Luck” [Moon Panda]
• Baltimore, Maryland indie pop /folk solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner (of the duo Wye Oak), Flock of Dimes “Long After Midnight” from the third album, “The Life You Save” [Sub Pop Records]
• Toronto, ON bedroom pop /acoustic /indie rock singer-songwriter Rachel Bobbitt “Hands Hands Hands” from the upcoming LP “Swimming Towards The Sand” [Fantasy Records]
• Louisville, Kentucky-born psych /prog /indie rock /cosmic Americana /alt country singer-songwriter, RYAN DAVIS & the Roadhouse Band “Mutilation Springs” from the album “New Threats from the Soul” [Sophomore Lounge / Tough Love]
• North East, England ambient /experimental /electro-acoustic /electronic musician and composer Chris Bartholomew, aka Bartholomew “Riverbed” from “Subterranea” LP [Lunar Module /Castles in Space]