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

• Imphal, India dream pop /psychgaze /shoegaze trio, Lo! Peninsula “Song For The Undead” single
  

After an 8 year long hiatus the Indian outfit have returned with a new single, inspired by their experience of living through the ongoing conflict in Manipur, overflowing with swirling gazey psychedelia, a slow-burning visceral introspection that builds from a bed of slinky bass pulses and hypnotic steady drums over which layers of squealing guitars, capped by trilling cosmic bursts of reverb that sways from a warm drone to a hissing screech with a transcendent soaring edge along with airy, slightly distorted, wistful vocals, powerfully radiating, to saturate the dire, painfilled soundscape with empathy, truth, and hope.

• Merseyside-based psych /dream pop /indie pop-rock musician Phil Wilson, under The Raft moniker since 2003, shares the songwriting duty with longtime collaborator musician Gaz Elliott, The Raft and Gaz Elliott “Silly Little Boy” single [Shore Dive Records]

Fresh from featuring on the amazing #mindyourmind compilation, the Merseyside pair serves up a captivating folk-tinged indie pop tune, colored with glimmers of Beatles psychedelia, brimming with precious and bright melodic immediacy, spontaneous and refined at the same time. Airy layers of smooth nostalgic vocals infuse a vibrant heartfelt quality that soothes with both penetrating and caressing tones, swaying with the moody, lush and shimmery strummed guitars, at times hued with swirly high tinkling melancholic flourishings, between tension and release.

• Toronto, ON dream-pop /shoegaze band Azure Rose “Villains” single from forthcoming full-length vinyl “Blue Drops”
  

Second single release from the newcomer dreamy shoegaze band based in Toronto, also part of the #mindyourmind compilation, rife with The Byrds /Big Star-like descending jangly guitar lines. An homage to nostalgic villains and glory days, the immersive and flowingly cathartic song sparks off a steady stumbling midtempo drive, jam-packed with vaguely lysergic crackling guitars that strum and chime with tear-stained layers of sparkling poignant melodies, echoing around gloomy, remorseful male vocals, struggling to move forward rather than fall backwards.

• Brooklyn, NY-based, Belgian-born ambient /experimental /ethereal jazz /avant-pop vocalist, composer, and producer Charlotte Jacobs “II” from “Word Passed the Time” LP [Geographic North]
• Lynchburg, Virginia instrumental ambient /minimalistic /post-rock trio TLVS “Růžová Babička” from “Small Permanences” EP [Harding Street Assembly Lab]
• Italian ambient /electronic /modern-classical movie composer and producer Stefano Guzzetti “Northern Sky (w/ Anne Garner)” [originally written and performed by Nick Drake] from the upcoming album of covers “In A Strange Place” [Glass Modern]
• Oakland, Bay Area ambient /field recordings /experimental /electronic /electroacoustic /dream pop multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Shaina Pan, aka sachi’s mirror “Out loud” from the debut LP “Talking in a Different Way” [Constellation Tatsu]
• US lo-fi 4-track /home recording /ambient pop /abstract /psychedelic folk /electronic /cloudfolk singer-songwriter and producer Betty Hammerschlag “Hot Snow” off upcoming LP “Psycho Summer” [Drowned By Locals]
• Los Angeles-based dream pop /indie-folk project led by singer-songwriter Audrey Kang, aka Lightning Bug “Some Things Linger, Some Things Fade” from “In Between Things” EP [In Real Life]
• Stockholm, Sweden-based electronic /dream pop duo started in 1995, CLUB 8 “The Sweetness Of Honey” single
• Boston, MA-based DIY bedroom-pop /dream-pop project by singer-songwriter and producer Carissa Myre, aka Layzi “Iingo” from “If i never go outside” EP [Spirit Goth Records]
• Cambridge, UK 5-piece indie /shoegaze /dream pop band Blue Cinema “Infinite Monkeys With Infinite Instruments” single
  
• Seattle‘s indie rock /dream pop band Pitschouse “Nothing New” from the upcoming reunion album “Dinner with The Dreamies” [Den Tapes]
• Manchester, UK dream pop /psych pop solo project of Nicholas Wood (1/2 of electronic duo The KVB), Saccades “Slacker” off upcoming album “Golden Days”
  
• Whanganui, New Zealand synth-pop /art-pop songwriter and performer Anthonie Tonnon “Executive Assistant”
  
• British/German/Austrian psych baroque pop group of like-minded musicians singer/songwriter Robert Rotifer (Louis Philippe & The Night Mail, Swansea Sound, The Penrose Web, Papernut Cambridge, Fay Hallam’s band), Kenji (formerly of Friedrich Sunlight, co-inventor of GlasGoesPop), post-Glam veteran John Howard, young Viennese talent The Zew, living she-punk legend Helen McCookerybook and singing drummer Ian Button (Thrashing Doves), aka Radical Friendship Theory “Listen To The News” from upcoming s/t album [Spinout Nuggets]
• Manchester jangly /indie-pop four-piece featuring former members of The Bodines and The Waltones, Alta Zuma “Wild Poppy” from the debut “The Rosenbergs” EP 3-track 7″ [Precious Recordings of London]
• England, UK indie /guitar-pop singer-songwriter and musician Richard Preece, aka Lovejoy “Vanishing” from the new “Under The Weather” album [Spinout Nuggets (UK) / Shelflife (US)]
• Minneapolis‘ indie pop band led by Eli Hansen, Real Numbers “Was It Always This Way” title track of the upcoming album “Was It Always This Way” [Slumberland Records]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi /C86 /post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Everything I Dream About, It Doesn’t Come True” from the 19th album “For Three Days Use Only” [Salt Mine Records]
• Edinburgh, Scotland 60s influenced /C86 /raw indie pop DIY four-piece band formed in late 1985, The Catburgers “I’ve Got a Friend” from the upcoming posthumous album “Galashiels” [Slumberland Records]
• Santa Fe, New Mexico-based, Boston, MA-bred ’60s garage /post-punk /psych pop /jangly indie pop band The Specific Heats “You and Me Both, Lois” from the third album ” Everything We Never Were (but Always Wanted to Be)”
  
• Ohio 4-piece lo-fi indie rock group Long Odds “Dead Friends” from the second LP “The Dry Land” [Clean Demon Records]
• London-based veteran 4-piece jangly indie pop /post-rock /shoegaze band SENNEN “Here It Comes” from the upcoming “New Quiet”, Sennen’s first album in over 10 years [Sonic Cathedral]
• Indianapolis-based atmospheric /dream pop /shoegaze band, Fern Murphy “Flightline” from the album “Via Negative”
  
• Brisbane, Australia dream pop /psychedelic /shoegaze project led by Ethan Clark, aka Beige Walls and No Roof “Unknown Horizon” from the third LP “Sunglow”
  
• Los Angeles dream pop /noise-pop /shoegaze band The Meeting Places “never” from “Millions/Never” 7″ single [Painted Air]
• Karlsruhe, Germany dream pop /shoegaze /fuzz music project Venusian Friend “summer1” from the 2-track single “sunbite”
  
• Jakarta, Indonesia noise pop /shoegaze /dream pop outfit Whisperlines “Unseen” from the debut “Petrichor & Pale Skies” EP
  
• Los Angeles dreamo /shoegaze duo, Drauve “Abyss” single
  
• Dunedin, NZ alternative /grungegaze /indie rock band Loa Loa “Jester” single
  
• San Francisco/Pittsburgh shoegaze /dream pop collaboration Chlorine Eyes & Strayline “Prone” single
  
• Bielefeld, Germany-based, Turkish shoegaze /dreampop band formed in Istanbul, Plastic Ideas “Sanri” single
  
• Berlin, Germany based alternative rock /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze quartet Funsover “Fields” second single
  
• Bloomington, Indiana 4-piece indie rock /noisegaze band Just Penelope “After” from “Great Lake” EP [Angel Tapes / Fire Talk]
• Johor Bahru, Malaysia ambient /shoegaze band Dreamscape “Helpless Hands” from “Deepest Surface” EP [Slipshod Records / Hardcore Detonation]
• Ulm, Germany Ambient /Dream Pop /Noise Rock /Shoegaze band Framewalkers “Think about” single
  
• Indonesian grunge /alternative rock band Raw Blue – “Chronic Blue” debut single [Haum Entertainment]
• Long-running Southern California alternative rock /shoegaze band led by Jason Martin, Starflyer 59 “I Wanna Disappear” from “Disappointed” EP [Velvet Blue Music]
• Hamburg, Germany dreamgaze /post-punk /shoegaze three-piece Seasurfer “Flurry Glory” from “The Noise is ours” EP
  
• Moscow loud shoegaze band арнегия // carnegiiiea “Henry” single
  
• Montreal, Quebec blackgaze /post-rock /shoegaze band ROSEGAZE “Rosegaze” from the upcoming s/t EP
  
• San Francisco lo-fi /desert drone /psych /freak folk project of K Linn (Sad Eyed Beatniks and Paisley Shirt Records owner), Present Electric “The Ring Is On The Phoenix’s Head” from the cassette album “My Heart Is Filled With A Hundred Knots Of Sorrow And A Thousand Knots Of Resentment” [Paisley Shirt Records]
• Ann Arbor, Michigan ambient /psychedelic /electronic /krautrock band Fling II “Ilia” from the album “III” [We Are Busy Bodies]
• Richmond, VA baroque pop /psych/ garage-pop 6-piece led by founding members Kenneth Close (Positive No) and Tracy Wilson (Dahlia Seed, Ringfinger, Positive No), Outer World “Present Perfect Future Past” from the upcoming second LP “Home”
  
• Los Angeles garage rock /post-punk /art-punk duo Tom Pinkava and Timothy Waldner, aka Celebrators “NNO” from the debut LP “DELIBERATION” [TOMOTHY RECORDS]
• Melbourne 5-piece guitar rock /power pop band formed in 1992, led by songwriter Charles Jenkins, Icecream Hands “Shakespeare Always” from “Pineapple Pieces” EP [Popboomerang Records]
• Oakland, CA indie rock /power pop band The Heart Wants “1 & Done” single
  
• Oakland, CA-based dream-punk /shoegaze /indie rock band led by musician Peter Wallner, Bliss Abyss “Sour” from “Weird Time / Sour” single
  
• Philadelphia-based slacker stoner rock /power pop outfit featuring Nao Demand (Poison Ruin) plus scene stalwarts Bill Mangerr (Zorn), Evan Campbell (Sheer Mag, Zorn) and Nneka Anyaoku (S21), Mopar Stars “Suped Up Coupe” from the debut “Official Researchers Of The NJ Devil” LP [Perennial]
• UK surf psych /garage punk duo Mr Rat Scabies (The Damned) and Mr Billy Shinbone (Flipron, Neville Staple Band, i-nichi), aka The Sinclairs “Dirty River (feat. Emily Breeze)” from the 2-track 7″ single “Dirty River (feat. Emily Breeze) / …And Garnish With A Fresh Tarantula” [Spinout Nuggets]
• Detroit roots rock /Americana / power-pop-rock trio Jeremy Porter &The Tucos “Fuss” from upcoming LP “Sell Their Souls” [GTG Records]
• Los Angeles  3-piece Post Punk /Indie Rock band Bad Sports “Follow Through” from “Follow Through” EP
  
• Cincinnati, Ohio garage /power pop trio Xanny Stars “See Right Through” from the 7″ EP “Take Shape” [Just Because Records]
• Philadelphia indie rock band 2nd Grade “Cellophane Girls” single [Lame-O Records]
• Wichita, Kansas 3-piece Power Pop /Indie Rock band The Travel Guide “The Attack” from “Sharper” EP
  
• Australian indie rock /folk singer-songwriter and former Melbourne’s Twerps mastermind, Martin Frawley “Drug Buddy” (The Lemonheads cover, 1992) from the album “Homework”
  
• Washington D.C. acoustic indie folk music solo project of multi-instrumentalist Fiona Kohrman (part of Light Beams, Dim Wizard), Geese Tooth “Your Side” off the debut “One Thing Once” EP [Lost Sound Tapes]
• Italian acoustic fantasy /celtic /neofolk singer-songwriter Gea Wildwood “Mother Earth” single