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

• Bandung, Indonesia indie-pop five-piece band Clubwater “Cherry Lies” single [Tarsius Records]

Endearing Sarah-esque wistful jangle pop from Bandung unit that gracefully juggles between an insistent sway of buoyant glistening guitar melodies layered with poignant winding baritone tones, and hopeless shivering organ swathes to surround aching, downcast male vocals sadly crooning about two addicts, a troubled woman and the man who loves her.

• London-based alternative rock /shoegaze /indie rock trio Hazy Waters “Take me home” single
  

Leaving the synth in the background, London-based trio’s new hazy guitar-laden single ‘captures the raw feeling of modern overwhelm and turns it into a cathartic indie anthem’, deploying tight mid-tempo rhythms full of slightly distorted, ringing riffs, bursting into cool, shimmery fluttering mists around anxious, feathery female vocals of aching gloom, yearning for a new start where every day matters.

• Charlottesville, VA dream pop /post-punk /shoegaze /indie rock group Films on Song “1MPM” single from the upcoming sophomore album “Dissection”
  

A mercurial and atmospheric swirl of highly melodic ’90s-tinged indie guitar rock from the Virginia outfit, to finely set the tone for the upcoming second full-length. After seemingly running one mile per minute (1MPM), dreamy, anxious male vocals wander amid wavy and waggling bright riffs laced with soaring high-pitched melancholic leads, to grow tired and gloomy under energetic bursts of fuzzy cathartic distortion.

• Scottish ambient /field recordings /pastoral /psychedelic /folktronica /experimental folk musicians Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw “Are They Still Alive” from the album “Last Of The Turnspit Dogs” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Glasgow, UK-based Turkish-born ambient /dream pop /indie /acoustic folk singer-songwriter Isik Kural “Winter Sun” first single from “Motorcycles and Cherry Wind” LP [RVNG Intl.]
• Tokyo, Japan experimental avant pop /psych /folk DIY duo Saya & Takashi Ueno started in the early 2000s, aka Tenniscoats “Ball Man (2026 Edited Version)” from the edited reissue of the third album “We Are Everyone” (Originally released in 2004 by Majikick and Rover Records) [A Colourful Storm]
• Kingston, NY ambient /indie rock /folk duo of percussionist, audio engineer, and record producer John Thayer & guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Lea Thomas, aka Miyaxx “Blue Cloud White Sky” from the debut LP “Hold Your Ego Out Like A Sun”
  
• Montreal, Québec ’60s psych pop /dream pop /indie rock solo project of Corridor songwriter-vocalist-guitarist Jonathan Robert, aka Jonathan Personne “Faits divers” from the 5th LP “Répertoire” [Bonsound]
• Montreal, Quebec ambient /post-rock /indie /folk /experimental pop singer-songwriter-musician and Temple label co-founder Richard “Anything” off upcoming “Loving You To Death” LP [STROOM.tv]
• London-based northern soul /twee /sophisti-pop /indie pop supergroup featuring veteran musicians Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly and Talulah Gosh), Ian Button (Papernut Cambridge, Heavenly), Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture) and Allison Thomson (The Trash Can Sinatras, The Love Band), Railcard “Flannelette” from the upcoming debut LP “Two Steps At A Time” [Skep Wax / Slumberland Records]
• Margate, UK indie-soul /dream pop band Tokyo Tea Room “Hypnotised” from the upcoming second LP “Feel Forever” [Nice Guys]
• Auckland, NZ trip-hop /synth-pop /indie /art pop musician Jonathan Bree “Honey” from “Don’t Call It Love” LP [Lil’ Chief Records]
• Gothenburg, Swedish disco /indie pop pioneers formed in 1999, The Embassy “Antihuman” off the two-track single, “Antihuman/Try Hard”
  
• Los Angeles-based dream pop /new wave duo Ruby Haunt “Daystar” single
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop musician and composer Trentemøller “Terrified” from the upcoming album “Trentemøller” [hfn music]
• Melbourne-based, Australian indie rock /folk four-piece led by Jason Katsaras (formerly of Horror My Friend, Colourblind, and Dead Roo), Hard Rubbish “Barking At Me” from “Barking At Me / Seen” single [Swirl Records]
• Montreal noise pop /indie rock band Frown Line “Without You” single [Lauren Records]
• Chicago‘s indie pop post-punk foursome Wild Thyme “Lost Lands” from the 2-track single “Evan”
  
• Glasgow, Scottish 3-piece indie rock band formed in 1992, The Yummy Fur “Headphones” 2nd single from the LP “Everybody Talks About the Weather”, first album of new material in over 25 years [Upset The Rhythm]
• Glasgow, Scotland guitar rock collective formed in 1997, centred around local scene staple guitarist-vocalist John Hogerty (The Pastels), National Park “Shapes, Stars” from the debut album “Outside”, a collection of singles, EPs and unreleased home recordings spanning the years 1997 – 2026 [Errol’s Hot Wax]
• Geneva-based Swiss/Spanish indie /shoegaze /dream pop /psychedelic pop band Sunday,June “What if I Tried?” from the upcoming second LP “Cinema” [Spinda Records (Spain) / Irascible Records (Switzerland)]
• Philadelphia-based jangle-rock /power-pop trio 2nd Grade “Anywhere Girls” from the upcoming LP “Girls and Boys” [Lame-O Records]
• Bristol, UK-based indie rock musical project, this rainy decade “Menace” single [little rat records]
• Brighton, UK-based dream-pop band led by musicians Mark Benton and Tom Chadd, Seadog “Into The Night” single
  
• Chinese shoegaze /dream pop band 一點alittlebit “首尔漫步 Strolling in Seoul” off the debut EP “Sunshine After Rain” [Sango Records]
• Los Angeles shoegaze /dream-pop duo No Swoon “Where Do You Go” single
  
• Oakland, CA-based indie /dream-pop singer-songwriter Hazel English “Different Story” from the EP “Conversations”
  
• San Francisco electronic /shoegaze /noise pop four-piece Aluminum “Killing Time” from the upcoming second LP “Iconoclast HaHa” [Felte Records (Vinyl/CD12″) / Dandy Boy Records (Tape)]
• Brazilian indie rock /noise pop /shoegaze band Lava Divers “September Night, 24” from the second LP “Nigredo” [midsummer madness]
• Denver, Colorado prog /post-rock /shoegaze band A Shoreline Dream “Legacy” single
  
• NYC slowcore /shoegaze /dream pop band Neon Wire “Fade” single
  
• Szczecin, Poland indie rock /noise pop /shoegaze trio Hiacynt “Nie w takt” from “Bezkres” EP
  
• Moscow based noise /shoegaze band карнегия // carnegiiiea “Золотые зубы – рфпл” from the debut album “Maria False”
  
• Brooklyn, NYC indie dream-rock outfit Paper Lady “Cellsword” single
  
• Arizona Shoegaze /Dreampop duo formed in the early ’90s, Alison’s Halo “Stuck” (Panchiko cover) [Nettwerk]
• Toronto, Ontario shoegaze /space rock /dream-pop four-piece Whisper Gang “Everything Bliss” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany dream pop /shoegaze band The First Eloi “Drawn Into These Headlights ” single
  
• Polish Dream Pop /Shoegaze band Malise “Dixit” single
  
• San Francisco alternative /dream pop /shoegaze four-piece Dalmatia “Dive In” single
  
• Scottish 5-piece noise shoegaze band Sunstinger “BARELY HERE” from “SPARE ME THE RAPTURE” EP
  
• California emo /noise /post-shoegaze band led by founder/frontman/guitarist Matthew Wainwright, COLD GAWD “Steel” from “GLORY2” EP [Dais]
• Grenoble slowcore /indie rock /shoegaze/grungy pop band Proto “Nickel” from the upcoming “Veille” EP [Hidden Bay Records]
• London post-hardcore /dream pop /noise rock /shoegaze quartet Laughter “Time” from the second “Slime” EP [Venn Records]
• Rotterdam five-piece post-hardcore /post-punk /noise rock /shoegaze band Tramhaus “Swarm” single from the upcoming second LP “Blister”
  
• Cornwall, UK experimental /folk /krautrock /psychedelic rock collective Blind Yeo “Hour Glass of the Eye” from the debut LP “The Lemoine Point” [Les Disques Bongo Joe]
• Bay Area psychedelic garage soul songwriter Michael Bridgmon, aka James Wavey “When Did The Lights Go Out?” from “Sleepers Break” EP [Dandy Boy Records]
• Albany, NY dream-pop /neo-psychedelic /grunge-gaze husband-and-wife multi-instrumentalists Eric Krans and Jen O’Connor, The Parlor “Open Your Eyes I Love You” from the upcoming double LP “Sun By Day | Moon By Night”
  
• Montréal, Quebec psych-ambient /modular synth-drone supergroup co-founded by Stephen Ramsay (Young Galaxy) and Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes), with Lasek’s Besnard bandmate Olga Goreas on vocals, Light Conductor “Omenize” from the upcoming LP “Sequence Three”, the first album in five years and the final instalment in the group’s trilogy started in 2019 [Constellation]
• Montréal, Canada ambient /drone /noise /post-rock /krautrock /psychedelic /experimental rock outfit Yoo Doo Right “Doldrums, Doldrums, Eviler Than the Devil” from the upcoming 4th LP “Build and Rest by the Shepherd’s Light” [Mothland]
• New York-based psychedelic folk /garage soul collective centered around singer and songwriter Dwayne Seagraves, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians “High Time”, second installment from the collection of songs recorded back in the spring of 2019
  
• Chicago garage /indie rock /rock’n’roll singer-songwriter Joe Glass “Man Who Lost His Diamond” from the LP “Snakewards” [Perennial]
• Austin, TX 4-piece art pop /rock’n’roll /psychedelic rock group formed in the mid-’90s, The Living Pins “Roxy Unicorn” title track of the upcoming debut LP “Roxy Unicorn” [Flak Records]
• NYC 60s inspired /psychedelic rock band lluminated Sidewalks “A Rough Approximation of Life” single
  
• San Diego, CA garage rock /rock ‘n’ roll trio The Schizophonics “Black Pleather” from the upcoming LP “Burning Floor” [Alternative Tentacles Records] 
  
• New York alternative /shoegaze / indie rock solo project of Addie Warncke, aka Computerwife “Foreverrr” from upcoming “Born” LP [Danger Collective Records]
• Gothenburg, Sweden progressive indie /alternative rock band Poloklubben “GBG Himlen” single
  
• St. Louis, Missouri indie-pop /punk band formed in early 1993, Bunnygrunt “Give My Records To Broadway” from the 2-track “Captured At The Train Tracks” single [The Bert Dax Cavalcade Of Stars]
• Scottish 4-piece indie pop-rock band, The Spook School “Falling” off upcoming fourth album “Like A Heartbeat” [Alcopop! Records (UK) / Slumberland Records (US)]
• New York 4-piece neo-psychedelic /garage rock /rootsy pop band Düül Suns “Still I Do” single
  
• Olympia, WA experimental electronic /folk /indie pop recordings from Lillian Maring (Debt Rag, Grass Widow, Wet Drag), Hedi’s Head “Jacket” from cassette s/t album “Hedi’s Head” [Yard Sale For World Peace]
• Stuttgart-born, Portland, OR-based indie rock /folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (aka Kissyfur, part of Corpses As Bedmates, Thinking Plague, Biota, and Hail), Susanne Lewis “Cherry Blossoms” from the remastered reissue of the debut 2000 s/t album [Concentric Circles]
• Budapest-born, Copenhagen-based ambient /dream pop /triphop /downtempo /electronica /spoken word artist Zosia “Sosem pihen” single [Blue Sun]