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.

• New Jersey shoegaze /post-rock /dreampop project Basileia “Skin & Bones” single
  

Hazy, atmospheric, sad dream-pop, sober and poignantly restrained, from the enigmatic singer-songwriter from New Jersey, provoked by shuffling percussions, ghostly synth layers and stirring guitars that shimmer with softened reverb over gentle, airy streaming female vocals surrendering to another’s energy.

• Kyoto, Japanese dreamy /indie /psych pop DJ and musician since the early 00s, HALFBYの新曲 – “Between Them feat. MIYA (Ålborg)” single
  

First song in four years, since the previous album “Loco,” for the Japanese musician, featuring Ålborg-based, Danish artist MIYA on vocals and trumpet, with a meticulous gloss of sophisti-psych pop intricacy, though a lush, groovy concoction of crisp swaying rhythm patterns, warm bass pulses, crystalline strums, spiraling guitar melodies and stirring, wistful swirls of flute and trumpet around deep hued dreamy vocals, soulfully wondering about another’s thoughts.

• Düsseldorf, Germany-based jangly indie pop band The Radio Field “Ride With Me feat. Crystin” third single from the upcoming LP
  

Perfect-pitched jangle pop from the German outfit that sways in vibrant and heartfelt harmony with airy chiming guitar melodies and emotional brass-tone sophistication, atop easy-going male vocals, shrouded in cheery high haloes, embracing the ride of life with an inseparable loved one, “Don’t you ever let go.”

• Fife, Scotland ambient /electronic /field recordings/experimental folkloric pop singer, composer, keyboardist and visual artist, Susannah Stark & Band “Caochan” from the second LP “Minor Gestures” [STROOM.tv / Night School]
• Bristol, UK-based ambient /pastoral /dream pop /shoegaze /indie folk solo project of singer-songwriter Helena Walker, Herbal Tea “Frank” from debut album “Hear as the Mirror Echoes” [Ordinal Records (US) / Gold Day (UK)]
• Berlin-based, Brooklyn, NY‘s ambient /trip-hop /experimental /downtempo electronic producer Ben Bondy “Ur Ghost Is My Shadow feat. Kissen” from the album “XO Salt Llif3” [3XL]
• French electronic pop duo Terrain Vague “Drops” single off the upcoming EP “Carré Magique”[Lisbon Lux Records]
• Brussels-based indie /bedroom pop DIY project led by singer-songwriter Garance Giang Vo, aka Garance Midi “Fantôme” from the expanded edition of 2024 debut LP “Dans la maison (la suite)” []
• Catskill, New York cinematic soul /r&b /funk /psychedelic pop band Astrud Gardener “Silver Dice” from the debut LP “Dreaming Of Amethyst”
  
• London-based hip-hop /exotica /doo wop /string /instrumental collage sample-based indie musician, Chinless Wonder “Supertropical” single
  
• San Francisco outsider freak-folk /psych pop songwriter and musician, Luke Sweeney “Probably Me” from the 5th album “Novel Tea” [Dandy Boy Records]
• Adelaide, Australia shoegaze /electronic /noise /dream pop solo project of Brad Edwards, aka Ephemerons “The Last Voice” single
  
• Glasgow-based DIY bedroom /jangle /dream pop project of Scottish composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Kay Terence, Swiss Portrait “Place” single
  
• Nice, France dream-pop /indie pop duo Mirage “Out Of Frame” from the debut s/t EP [Spirit Goth Records]
• Chicago indie /synthpop /dream pop collaboration COOL HEAT x NOTHING BUT SILENCE “Cynical” single
  
• Kingston, Ontario dream pop /indie folk-rock duo Funeral Lakes “Dreaming of Heroes” from upcoming “Mountains Turned to Dust” EP
  
• Brisbane, Australia 4-piece atmospheric /shoegaze /jangle pop/indie guitar rock band The Valery Trails “Winter Palace” title track of the new album “Winter Palace”
  
• California lo-fi /indie rock solo project Cotton Caves “Afraid” single
  
• Savannah, Georgia lo-fi /emo /indie rock /folk DIY duo S. Rabbit “disclaimer” from “your stuff will outlive you” LP
  
• Olympia, WA punk /emo /indie rock quartet Wavers “Liverwalk” off “Look What I Found” LP [Musical Fanzine / Salinas Records / Reach Around]
• Chicago-based lo-fi /jangle /mod /indie psychedelic pop musician and composer Kai Slater, aka Sharp Pins “(I Wanna) Be Your Girl” from the upcoming 21-track LP “Balloon Balloon Balloon” [perennialdeath]
• Aberdeen, Scotland-based lo-fi indie /psych pop DIY solo project The Terminal Buildings “Papier Mâché” from the album “Belles of the Bucket” LP
  
• Turin-based, Prato-bred Italian kraut /psychedelic rock experimental singer-songwriter Cosimo Querci “Manina Nera” from upcoming LP “Rimane” [Quindi Records]
• Portland, OR indie /dream pop /psychedelic pop group Shadowgraphs “Blood Right Down” from the upcoming album “Don’t Chase, Will Run” 
  
• New Zealand indie-rock-folk-psych band formed in 1980, led by poet and musician Bill Direen, aka Bilders “Stancing” from the upcoming album “Neverlasting” [Grapefruit Records]
• San Francisco-based DIY dream /indie pop /sadcore band led by veteran musician Glenn Donaldson, The Reds, Pinks & Purples “My Friend” (Cindy/Karina Gill cover) from 2-track cover single “Different Currencies”
  
• Newport, UK jangle /indie pop solo project of Rob Morgan, aka Armstrong “Taking Me Over Again (single version)” (September 2025)
  
• Brighton And Hove, UK C86 /jangle indie pop trio formed in 2002, Assistant “Overwhelming (Mellow Drums)” remix version from the 5th LP, “Certain Memories”
  
• South London 4-piece emo country /shoegaze /jangle pop /indie punk group Adults “Patterns” from the second LP “The seeds we sow are sprouting buds nonetheless” [Fika Recordings]
• Sweden‘s shoegaze /synth wave /dream pop project of singer-songwriter and musician Alex Johnsson, aka Lieblings “Romerskt ljus” title track of “Romerskt ljus” EP
  
• Glasgow, UK alternative /shoegaze /indie rock project of C.J. Millar, aka The Death Of Us “Hyperrealism” single 
  
• Bristol, UK C86 /indie rock five piece The Cindys “Dry TV” 2nd single off the debut album “The Cindys” [Breakfast Records (UK) / Ruination Records (US)]
• Australian jangle /power indie pop band led by Mark Monnone (formerly of The Lucksmiths), Monnone Alone “Special Powers” from V/A “Tearjerker (Songs of Drew Cramer)” compilation LP [songsofdrew]
• Orlando, FL twee garage pop band The Sourdrops “Elliott’s Song (Buttercup Boy)” from the cassette EP “Just Throw It In!” [Ragdoll Records]
• Buenos Aires-based, Argentinian shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop band Montegrande “Atlas” single
  
• Swedish indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze project of Uppsala‘s multi-instrumentalist Rickard Sjöberg, aka Fleeting Temples “Orca” from the LP “Beast”
  
• Atlanta, GA dreamwave /shoegaze band led by singer-songwriter Rose Ewing, Kid Fears “Ida’s Stain” single [Tiny Engines]
• Tennessee bedroom /post-hardcore /indie rock /shoegaze solo project, Blue Heron, Holy Ghost “I’m Gone” from 2-track single “A couple more”
  
• US ethereal dream pop /shoegaze project of longtime friends Gerry Beyer, Deborah Warfield (Swirlies, Gold Muse), Carter Hoodless (Drywater), and Michael Flannery (One Track Mike, The Flannery Brothers), Giant Meteor “Hartshorne” from upcoming “Alien Friend” EP
  
• Toronto-based ambient / shoegaze multidisciplinary artist and sound sculptor Jonathan Relph AKA Indoor Voices “Flakey” first single from forthcoming album “Terrors” [1991 Recordings]
• Taiwan dream pop /shoegaze four piece The Giraffe Told Me In My Dream “Before” from “Velvet Distortion” EP [Shore Dive Records]
• Manchester, UK ethereal /fuzzed-up dream pop /shoegaze project of Wigan-born musician, Tasmin Stephens, aka TTSSFU “Weekend” from “Blown” EP [Partisan Records]
• Vienna, Virginia alt rock /shoegaze quartet Bellweather “Feverfew” single
  
• Cascadia shoegaze trio Waves Crashing “Parts of Me (Live)” from “Magnuson Park Live!” EP (Recorded live at Space 101.1FM for Magnuson Park Live! in Seattle, WA on 10/18/2024)
  
• Richmond, VA indie rock /shoegaze band Hotspit “CGI” single
  
• Tokyo-based shoegaze /fuzz guitar pop band Qubinoix – アオキハル（Aokiharu）single
  
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based doom-pop /shoegaze /post-punk solo project DETECTS “Bunny” from the album “MINUS”
  
• Alt rock /dream pop /noise rock /shoegaze band from Belgium, SLOW CRUSH “Cherry” from the third LP “Thirst” [Pure Noise Records]
• Toledo, OH instrumental dream pop /shoegaze /post-rock trio MEZMER “Melodrama” title track of the upcoming debut EP
  
• UK 5-piece instrumental post-rock outfit Near Light “Being and Nothingness” 2-track single, the first new release from Near Light in over a decade
  
• UK experimental /noise /indie rock sextet originally formed in Leicester in the early 90s, Prolapse “Err On The Side Of Dead” from the new LP “I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face” [Tapete Records]
• Adelaide, Australia ’60s garage /spaghetti /psychedelic rock /“desert jangle” 5-piece Los Palms “Eleven Thirty Three” from the s/t album [Fuzz Club]
• São Paulo, Brazil shoegaze /space rock /psychedelic rock band Firefriend “Spearhead” from upcoming LP “Fuzz” [Little Cloud Records / Cardinal Fuzz Records]
• Sligo, Ireland experimental /drone /doom /trip hop /pagan folk /psychedelic trio Rún “Terror Moon” from the debut s/t album “Rún” [Rocket Recordings]
• Austin, Texas psych rock /space gaze duo SKLOSS “Veto Powder” single [Fuzz Club]
• Bern, Switzerland blues /trash /garage /punk rock ‘n’ roll collaboration Reverend Beat-Man & Milan Slick “Seduce” from upcoming LP “Death crossed the street” [Voodoo Rhythm Records]
• Boston, Massachusetts, mod /power pop trio The Chelsea Curve “Never Come Down” single
  
• La Rochelle‘s garage rock /post-punk 6-piece band The Big Idea “These Days” from upcoming sixth LP “Half A Dozen” [Howlin Banana Records / Exag’ Records]
• Washington, D.C. indie rock /garage-punk-pop singer-songwriter Elisabeth Nelson, aka The Paranoid Style “Tearing the Ticket” featuring Matt Douglas from the Mountain Goats [Bar/None Records]
• Vienna-based electro pop musician-artist Sofie Royer “AUTO” single [Stones Throw Records]
• Finnish–Swedish indie electronic pop group formed in 2012, Vasa flora och fauna ”Du ville ha barn men inte med mig” off upcoming LP “Berg i dagen” [Startracks]
• Nashville, Tennessee indie rock /folk singer-songwriter Tristen “Skin of Our Teeth” from upcoming 5th studio album “Unpopular Music” [Well Kept Secret]
• Toronto, Canada Americana /rock’n’roll /folk singer-songwriter JERRY LEGER “It’s So Strange” from the upcoming 14th studio album ‘Waves Of Desire’ [DevilDuck Records]
• Omaha, Nebraska-based indie rock /alt folk band consisting of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott, Bright Eyes “Dyslexic Palindrome (feat. Hurray for the Riff Raff)” from “Kids Table” EP [Dead Oceans]