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

• Richmond, Virginia power jangle pop 4-piece YOUNG SCUM “Lighter Blue” title track of the upcoming sophomore album on Pretty Olivia Records
  

Richmond‘s outwardly sun-kissed jangly power poppers return, six years after the band’s acclaimed debut album, through a refined striking sound alchemy jam-packed with prickly sparkling guitar melodies that chime and reverberate as heartfelt and nostalgic as it is imbued with a bittersweet melancholy around angsty, alienated vocals swaying in a sea of restless regret.

• Indianapolis-based Ambient /Dream-Pop /Shoegaze trio, Fern Murphy “Shapes Across the Water” single
  

Indianapolis atmospheric shoegazers draw lush ghostly and contemplative surreal rarefactions, stirred by soft drumming and humming basslines, swelling in an emotional whirring dizziness of subtle edgy dissonances and glistening warm curtains of reverbs, whilst feathery layered vocals fly above it all, struggling between familiar comfort and angsty uncertainty.

• Brisbane, Australia ambient /folk /ethereal /dream pop solo project of multi-instrumentalist Amber Ramsay, aka CLOUD TANGLE ”Godlike Masquerade” first single from the third full-length album ”Dreaming Again” via 4000 Records
  

Written by Amber Ramsay in early 2020, at the time of her debut album and over time elaborated into a stirring introspective dreamscape built with 44 layers of instruments and vocals with circular shimmers from wistful arpeggiated guitar loops, evocative shivering icy synth swells and a loose use of shifting percussive patterns, interspersed with echoing timpani rolls, to surround intimate crystalline vocals, exploring the sacrifice of an absent mind in order to ride the train of imagination.

• Portland, OR based Canadian–American ambient /electroacoustic /electronic musician (one half of husband-wife duo Mint Julep), Hollie Kenniff “Sea Sketch” via Nettwerk
  
• Leeds, UK ambient/cinematic /rock /singer-songwriter collaboration between Leeds‘ singer-guitarist Chris Hooson (one half of Dakota Suite) and French multi-instrumentalist Quentin Sirjacq, aka Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq “Meanwhile” from the album 2xLP album “Forever Breathes the Lonely Word” in loving memory of Nick Hawley (06/12/63 – 04/08/23)
  
• Los Angeles based transcendental pop /indie space folk singer-songwriter, Lael Neale – “Electricity” single via Sub Pop Records
  
• South Carolina indie folk singer-songwriter Samuel Ervin Beam‘s Iron & Wine “Never Meant” from upcoming V/A “American Football (Covers)” cover album + American Football debut 25th-anniversary remastered edition via Polyvinyl Records
  
• New Zealand indie-rock-folk band featuring Matt Swanson (Lambchop, My Dad Is Dead) and Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop), led by poet and musician Bill Direen, aka Bilders “My Father’s Enemy” from the album “Dustbin of Empathy” co-released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records
  
• Stockholm-based Filipino–American–Swedish indie rock /psychedelic / house /disco /downtempo /electronic songwriter Baba Stiltz “Stockholm​ ​(​Powder Remix)” from “Stockholm Remixes” EP 12″ [Public Possession]
• Chicago based space psych-pop duo Gold Star Gold Star “Our Love Is The Same” second single from the album, “Sunday’s Fine”
  
• Western Massachusetts indie country rock bar band ANIMAL PISS, IT’S EVERYWHERE “Beach Song” from the sophomore LP “Grace” via Sophomore Lounge / Half A Million Records
  
• Bellingham, WA indie pop /folk singer-songwriter Foster Powell, aka Verboten “Shadows in the park” title track of the album “Shadows in the park”
  
• Sheffield, UK shoegaze /dream-pop solo project Rinse You “Nickerson Gardens” title track of the new EP “Nickerson Gardens”
  
• London, UK ethereal dream pop duo DEARY “Selene” single [Sonic Cathedral]
• Oslo, Norway indie /dream pop solo project Yndling “Make Me Want You” from the album “Mood Booster” via Spirit Goth Records
  
• Berlin-based, Cape Town-bred dream /indie pop singer-songwriter Alice Phoebe Lou “The World Above” single
  
• Marietta, Georgia jangle pop /shoegaze /dreampop singer-songwriter Copperplate “Hello Florence” from the third album “A Pleasant Journey”
  
• Spain-based dream pop singer-songwriter April June “Starstruck” from the upcoming “Baby​’​s out of luck again” EP via Nettwerk
  
• Los Angeles chill /dream-pop /trip-hop band 16 Underground “Chasing a Comfort” single
  
• Essen, Germany Indie-Pop /Dreampop /Synthpop band Orkestra Zajenie “Komm doch raus mit mir!” single
  
• Brisbane, Australian 5-piece bluesy /grunge /post-punk /indie rock band Full Flower Moon Band “Come and Be” from the third album “Megaflower” via Dirty Power Studios (AUS/ NS) / Silver Arrow Records (ROW)
  
• Melbourne, Australia post-punk /new wave /psych-pop /art rock band Arbes “Impasse” from the upcoming debut album, “Counterways” via Third Eye Stimuli Records (AUS) and Earth Libraries (US & EU)
  
• Camden, Maine twee indie pop band led by Frank Boscoe (ex-Wimp Factor XIV and Vehicle Flips), The Ekphrastics “A Good Day for Sailing” from the second album “Make Your Own Snowboard” via Harriet Records
  
• San Francisco indie jangle pop band led by Andy Pastalaniec, aka Chime School “The End” 3rd single off the upcoming sophomore LP “The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel” via Slumberland Records
  
• Baltimore, Maryland lo-fi Merseybeat /jangle pop /power-pop /mod /indie band The Smashing Times “Tarts and Vicars” from the upcoming album “Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys” via perennialdeath
  
• Leicester, UK psych folk /cosmic pop outfit The Junipers “She Looked Up At the Stars” single
  
• Chicago-based indie rock band fronted by Wes Leavins, Brigitte Calls Me Baby “We Were Never Alive” from the album “The Future Is Our Way Out” on ATO
  
• Austin, TX-based shoegaze /indie pop /jangle /dream pop band, Letting Up Despite Great Faults “Dress” off upcoming new album ”Reveries”
  
• Newport, UK indie guitar pop solo project of Rob Morgan, aka Honeybourne “Four A.M.” single
  
• Glasgow-based C86 /jangly indie /twee-pop collective led by Craig Dunlop, I Wanna Be A Truck Driver “Australian Girlfriend” from the 2023 debut album “I Wanna Be A Truck Driver (with bonus tracks)” CD via Subjangle
  
• Portland, OR mid-90s minimal folk /twee /indie-pop duo Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia, aka The Softies “Tiny Flame” from the upcoming comeback album “The Bed I Made” via Father/Daughter Records
  
• Sacramento, CA born folk /indie pop musician-singer-songwriter (member of Tiger Trap,, The Softies, Go Sailor, Imaginary Pants, Olivia’s World, Gaze, Gigi, Brave Irene, Knife Pleats), Rose Melberg “Oh My God The Moon (Imaginary Pants)” [2013] from the cassette compilation “Things We Tried to Hide (Selected Songs, 1993​-​2023)” via Antiquated Future Records
  
• Manila, Philippines indie-pop quintet Cinéma Lumière “Cotton Candy Clouds” from the debut album “Wishing It Was Sunday”
  
• German jangle indie-pop project of Sebastian Voss (1/2 of Herr Wade), aka The Fisherman And His Soul – “Snowblind, Sunblind” from V/A “Splash!” summer sampler by Bureau Platiruma!!!
  
• Leicester, UK former frontman of the 90s Britpop/guitar pop band Perfume, M.J. McCarthy Jnr “One” (version of the title track from the 1997 Perfume album) via AromaTapes
  
• San Luis, Argentina post-rock /dreampop /indie rock band Las Carreteras “Patsy Collins” from the EP “Turismo Espiritual” via Pistilo Records
  
• Brisbane, Australian alt-indie rockers Tape/Off  “Paris, Texas, Queensland” single via Coolin’ By Sound Records
  
• Tashkent, Uzbekistan shoegaze /indie rock singer-songwriter Władek Sheen “(no matter) what I said” single
  
• Cleveland, OH wave /indie rock duo dogs run free “Real” from the forthcoming cassette EP “Normal” via Fever Ltd.
  
• Portland, OR psych /shoegaze /dream-pop duo Shady Cove “Midwest” single
  
• West Java, Indonesia bedroom dream-pop /shoegaze band Reveuse “Dream:” from the debut EP “dreamer:”
  
• Japanese ambient /dreampop / shoegaze project FLUFFYTAILS “Cherished Happy Memory​ (​Vocal Ver​.​)” from “Serene” EP via Weatnu Records
  
• London-based lo-fi /shoegaze /indie rock project of Seattle/Exeter duo (The Devil and Her Chauffeur, and former side project Echodrone), Seems Like Forever “Stray” second single from our up-and-coming album “Happy Accidents”
  
• London-based dreampop solo project Rainsong “Green Smoke” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia dream-pop /shoegaze quartet Sorry, Dave “Always on My Mind” single from the upcoming album “Sink”
  
• Cirebon, Indonesia indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop quartet Marryanne “Violet” from the debut EP “Into The Void”
  
• Los Angeles dream-pop /shoegaze solo project material material “Seldom Seen” from the debut album “In a Glass Land”
  
• New York dream pop/shoegaze band Head Sound “Home” single
  
• Cincinnati, OH dreamgaze /dream rock /shoegaze band SUNGAZE “Lost My Head” single
  
• Lima, Peru five-piece indie /dream pop /shoegaze band Solenoide “Diamante Azul” first single off the upcoming LP via Catenaria Discos
  
• Gold Coast, Australia shoegaze project SHOEGAZER “Been A While” single
  
• San Francisco‘s surf rock /psych /dream-pop /shoegaze band MINT “Atlas” from the EP “Dividing Lines”
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany-based dream-pop /indie rock /shoegaze band Attic Ocean “Blue Eyed Lenny” single
  
• Tokyo, Japan 4-piece ‘neo gazer’ band The Floatings “The Girl and The Heron” from “夏​再​来​/​The Girl and The Heron” 3rd single
  
• Washington grunge /indie rock /shoegaze band Spiral XP “Luna” off the debut album “I Wish I Was a Rat ” via Danger Collective Records
  
• Queens, NY garage /indie rock /grunge-gaze band led by Robert Preston Collum, aka PINK MEXICO “Petting Zoo” single
  
• Dallas, TX indie rock /shoegaze band fronted by Leah Lane, Deep Red “Berlin” single
  
• Seoul, South Korea indie rock /noise rock /shoegaze solo project Parannoul ‘고​통​없​이 (Painless)’ from the album ‘Sky Hundred’
  
• Tulsa, OK drone /psych /rock and roll /indie rock /shoegaze band Worship Team “Cherry” first single from the debut S/T album
  
• Seattle, WA-based shoegaze /indie rock musical project of Italian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Andrea Fox Volpato (New Candys, MØAA) aka Painted Vein “Hey man” single from the upcoming debut LP via We Were Never Being Boring Collective
  
• Bay Area dream pop /noise pop /shoegaze/psychedelic band The Asteroid No.4 – “Caroline’s Gone” single
  
• Austin, TX indie rock trio Dress Warm “Addin’ Up” single off upcoming “Amador” EP
  
• Nashville, TN psychedelic rock /folk solo project of guitarist, songwriter and longtime frontman of The Inscape, John Condit “Chase the Sun” single
  
• Nashville, TN bedroom /alternative /indie rock band The Sewing Club “Bad Apple” (Basement cover)
  
• Colchester, UK shoegaze /indie rock band She’s In Parties “The Man” from upcoming “Puppet Show” EP 12″
  
• Boston, MA late 90s lo-fi /fuzz indie pop band (formerly the Orans) led by Julie Kantner (Fertile Virgin, Twig, The Very, Uranium Daughters), Balloon Chase Team “Tom’s Place” from “Balloon Chase Team” EP
  
• Burlington, Vermont krautrock /post-punk /post-rock /indie rock band Robber Robber “Sea or War” from the debut LP “Wild Guess”
  
• Treviso, Italy psychedelic rock band Cosmic Room 99 “Plastic Venus” from upcoming debut S/T album
  
• Cape Town-based folk /post-punk /grunge /noise post /psychedelic /indie rock artist Chelsea Ann Peter, aka Blue Vow “Some Kind of Suicide” from the upcoming sophomore LP “Death of a Big Black Dog”
  
• Minneapolis, Minnesota 3-piece hardcore /garage punk /rock and roll band Citric Dummies “Trapped in a Parking Garage” title track from the upcoming EP “Trapped in a Parking Garage” via Saalepower 2 Records and Feel It Records
  
• Orlando, FL power-pop /punk trio Vicious Dreams “Too Tough” from “Turn Off My Brain” LP 12″ co-released by GC Records, Swamp Cabbage Records, Dirt Cult Records, and Brass Neck Records
  
• Brooklyn, NY based Kansas City-native indie rock singer-songwriter Scout Gillett “Closer” single
  
• Southampton, UK indie pop-rock duo Wynona “Fake Film Scripts” single
  
• Berlin-born psych /indie rock /dream-pop artist THALA “1st Of The Year” 2nd single from the upcoming LP via Fire Records
  
• Auckland, NZ dream pop /indie rock solo project of former Broods, Georgia Nott, aka Georgia Gets By “Some Kind of Angel” from “Split Lip” EP via Luminelle Recordings 
  
• Philadelphia, PA twang /indie folk singer-songwriter Thank You Thank You “Watching The Cyclones” single
  
• Lansdowne, Ontario roots /rock’n’roll /alt-folk multi-instrumentalist /singer-songwriter Christo Graham “If I Don’t Leave Now” from the album “Music For Horses” 12″ [We Are Busy Bodies]