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

• San Antonio, TX noise-pop /dream pop /shoegaze 5-piece FAWN “Regress” from Fawn / Cement Diver split cassette EP on suburban creep records
  

The two Texan shoegaze outfits from San Antonio deploy a split EP replete with both loud and enveloping ecstasy-driven wall of sounds nodding to MBV and Nothing aesthetics, dipped in melancholic feedback, to build heady fuzzed-out chaotic auras of abrasive metallic swarms, icy anxious and jagged droning melodies, stirred by energetic rhythms, to challenge lost, sad hopeless vocals. As more specialized friends have written in the comments, heady shoegaze played and made the hell out of it.

• Clare, Australia dream pop /jangle pop ‘home-recorded jangly noise’ project (formerly English Summer), Go Season “Super 8” demo single                                                                                                                                        

It’s just a demo without the usual sparkling jangly guitar flourishes, based on a hypnotic metronomic beatbox and obsessive fuzzy wistful melodies and tinkling icy bright arpeggios from a vintage synth over drowsy romantic vocals, lost in a blurry dreamscape of war and champagne, enough to be enraptured by a little jewel of elusive and delicate bittersweet nostalgia.

• Dream-pop /shoegaze project of Russian multi-instrumentalist and composer Dmitry Gruber with Nika Ámotnik (vocals, lyrics), Echoedreaming “You’re Afraid Of Me” [Single]

It’s been about ten years, maybe even more, that the Russian multi-instrumentalist and composer Dmitry Gruber navigates with ease and melodic sensitivity between different genres, mostly atmospheric and introspective, and a good amount of projects, most of the times in partnership with a female singer, Hjördis-Britt Åström, and Galatee are the ones I have always preferred though. One of the less explored is Echoedreaming, which combines, as the name suggests, reflective Dream Pop and echoing Shoegaze, whose latest single unfurls rippling glistening guitar melodies waxing and waning hypnotically, together with vibrant moody bass throbs, and skipping percussions, across the mind’s eye of daydreams, opening doorways where sad ethereal vocalizations rouse intimate confessions of anxious melancholy and angsty longing.

• Lisbon, Portugal ambient /noise /shoegaze solo project Hello Euphoria “No More January” from the album “Wash Away”
  
• Hindustani ambient /avant pop /emo-folk /raga /classical singer-composer (one half of alt-pop duo Felt Out), Sowmya Somanath, aka Plume Girl “Clean” from the debut cassette album “In the End We Begin” [mappa]
• Finnish ambient /psych /dream pop /electronic /experimental pop band Paavoharju “Haihtuu” from the upcoming LP “Yön mustia kukkia” [Fonal Records]
• Melbourne, Australia bedroom pop /indie rock /folk singer-songwriter (of The Fainters), Oliver Jach “New Vacancy” from the album “Final Faintersy”
  
• San Francisco lo-fi /indie /acoustic pop singer-songwriter Trimmo “Possession1” off 7th full-length album “Possession” cassette via [7th heaven]
  
• Oslo, Norway electronic /experimental pop duo Jenny Hval & Håvard Volden, aka Lost Girls “With the Other Hand” from off upcoming second LP “Selvutsletter” on Smalltown Supersound
  
• Melbourne-based lo-fi post-punk /indie pop trio Pretty In Pink “Pale Blue” from the sophomore cassette album “Pillows” via Little Lunch Records (AUS), Hidden Bay Records (EU) and Subjangle (CD release)
  
• Bay Area chamber pop project of veteran singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Shannon and The Clams, The Dodos, The Moore Brothers, Will Sprott, Dream Date, Greg Ashley, Shannon Shaw and her All Star Buddy Band), Anna Hillburg “Holdin’ On” from the third album “Tired Girls” [co-produced and recorded with Jason Quever of the Papercuts] on Speakeasy Studios SF
  
• Ontario-based bedroom pop duo, Chemical Club “Couches Killing Me” from the new single “Rise Again / Couches Killing Me” via Arts & Crafts
  
• UK lo-fi /bedroom /dream /indie pop duo Harper – “Flowers” single
  
• San Francisco lo-fi power-pop project band led by Mike Ramos, Tony Jay “Isolated Visions” second single off the cassette/vinyl album “Perfect Worlds” via Slumberland Records
  
• French shoegaze /psych /indie rock duo Velvet Sunset “Me And My Friends” single
  
• Bandung, Indonesia jangle /indie pop band Lawrence & Kim “Mundane Chime” from “Mundane” single
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany bedroom indie rock /jangle pop band led by Lars Schmidt (of Subterfuge), The Radio Field “Valhalla” from the debut album “Don’ts and Dos” on Subjangle
  
• Swedish four-piece jangly /indie pop band from Linköping, The Slow Summits “Oh Me Oh My” single
  
• German 4-piece jangle pop band from Cologne, Die Zärtlichkeit “Stimmen” 4th single from upcoming LP “Heimweh Meisterwerke” on Tapete Records
  
• Olympia, WA jangle fuzz indie pop led by Charles Bert (former member of Math and Physics Club), Field School “I Couldn’t Stop the Rain for You” from “A Familiar Fate” EP on Small Craft Advisory
  
• Anglo–German kraut /C86 /jangle /dream pop /indie pop 4-piece The BV’s “Feedback” from “Warp” EP 12″ via Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “No Sir, I Won’t Conform” 19th single
  
• Oakland, CA twee /indie /power pop band Blues Lawyer “Have Nots” from upcoming 7″ EP “Sight Gags On The Radio” on Dark Entries Records 
  
• Ciudad Juarez, Mexico post-punk /new wave /dream pop band San Charbel “Lágrimas en Ti” single
  
• Austin, TX bedroom pop /synth wave /jangle indie pop multi-instrumentalist-producer Christian Luis French, aka Sundozer “Charmed” off  “Charmed // 100 Lives” second single
  
• Richmond, VA dream pop /shoegaze solo project Always Other “Scarlet” from the upcoming album “Far from Everyone You Know”
  
• New Jersey shoegaze /dreamwave /dream pop project of Travis Trevisan (Tape Deck Mountain) and Christina Hernandez (Orion Lake), aka Slow Salvation “Grow” off the debut album “Here We Lie” via Velvet Blue Music
  
• Portland, OR psych /post-punk /shoegaze 4-piece Ten Million Lights “Snowdrift” from the upcoming LP “Into Nothing”
  
• Bangkok, Thailand shoegaze /dream pop 4-piece Death Of Heather “Gaze At The Ceiling” single
  
• Helsinki shoegaze /dream pop band Hattara “Lentosuukkoi” single
  
• Manchester, UK ethereal shoegaze DIY solo project of Duvet guitarist Tasmin Stephens, aka TTSSFU “Yeah yeah I do” single
  
• Sharon, Vermont dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock solo project of Tom Weir, aka Old Moon “Seen It All ” off “Early Days” EP
  
• Tokyo, Japan post-rock /indie rock /grunge /shoegaze /vocaloid project 路傍の石 [robo-no-ishi] 最果てへ from the second album 最果てより愛を込めて
  
• Crewe, UK indie /dream pop /shoegaze solo project RAINSTEAM&SPEED “Children of the same sun” single
  
• Elgin, Illinois shoegaze quintet Ceruleum “Frayed” debut single
  
• Shoegaze band based in Toronto, The Neverminds “Somewhere” from the debut EP “Nevermind, the Summer.”
  
• Taipei, Taiwan dream pop /shoegaze /indie-rock band Manic Sheep “Tawdry Clip” from the EP “Morning Fragment”                                                                                                                                                                                                      
• Naga, Philippines based Marl Amador‘s solo shoegaze noise-pop project, Possvm “Dance” single
  
• Brazilian alt /emo /shoegaze band Rise Rise, Forks “Just a Vapor” second single
  
• Los Angeles/San Francisco-based indie rock /psychedelic /shoegaze band Film School “Up Spacecraft” from the 7th LP “Field” on Felte Records
  
• Market Harborough, UK noise /dream pop /shoegaze DIY duo Hidden Eyes “Show yourself” from the album “Too Small”
  
• Indonesian indie rock /shoegaze band SCHELPER “The Grey Skin In Your Eyes” from the 2-track single “Waltz” via Outta Sight Records
  
• New York noise rock /shoegaze band Petal Head – “NPC” new single
  
• Toronto‘s noise /shoegaze /sludge-poppers Chilldozer “Anything” from debut cassette EP “Light Pollution” via No Coast
  
• Minato City, Japan alternative /grunge /shoegaze /noise rock band BLOOD PICK ME “PEOPLE” from the debut album “UNNORMAL”
  
• Rochester, NY Indie Rock /Dream Pop /Shoegaze quartet Bad Bloom “Unpopular Opinions” single
  
• Bolton, UK 5-piece indie rock band The Shed Project “Ghost Town” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock /noise pop /shoegaze band Cochlear Kill “Ruminescent” single
  
• Los Angeles-based jangle /fuzzy indie pop band The Creepy Crawlies “Weeds” title track of the upcoming album “Weeds”
  
• Austin, TX alternative rock /shoegaze /post-punk /rock and roll band Queen Serene “Isengard” new single
  
• 1976 formed New Jersey‘s new wave /jangle /indie guitar rock band The Feelies “Rock & Roll” from the double 2×12″ album “Some Kinda Love: Performing The Music Of The Velvet Underground” [Recorded Live at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, NJ October 13, 2018] on Bar/None Records
  
• Manchester, UK two-piece surf rock /psych-rock band Strange Dream “Mirrors” third single
  
• Rotterdam, The Netherlands indie /guitar rock 4-piece LEWSBERG “An Ear To The Chest” from forthcoming fourth LP “Out And About” [Lewsberg Records]
• Melbourne garage /indie rock four-piece The Belair Lip Bombs ‘Gimme Gimme’ off the debut album ‘Lush Life’ on C.W. Records
  
• Kentucky, US post-punk /drone /krautrock instrumental trio Verstärker ‘Ankunft’ off the upcoming second album ‘Jenseits’ via Fuzz Club Records
  
• Hillsborough, North Carolina experimental /folk /psychedelic /krautrock trio of Nathan Bowles (solo/trio, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell), aka Setting “Zoetropics” from the upcoming LP “Shone a Rainbow Light On” on Paradise of Bachelors
  
• Toronto-based Italian native jazz /synth /art rock /folk /poetry singer-songwriter Daniel Colussi, aka Fortunato Durutti Marinetti “Lightning On A Sunny Day” from upcoming third LP “Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean” via Quindi Records & Soft Abuse
  
• New York‘s indie rock band of brother duo, Snailosaur “Apartment Boxes (NYC poem)” single
  
• Chicago, IL shoegaze /indie rock singer-songwriter LITHIA “Glorified” single
  
• London-based grunge pop /indie rock Cardiff‘s artist, Aderyn “Distraction” single
  
• St. John’s, Canada ethereal /psych /dream /orchestral baroque pop singer-songwriter Kira Sheppard “Hexenbesen” second single from the upcoming album “The Internet Moon”
  
• The Hague, The Netherlands dream pop duo Maida Rose “Phoenix” single
  
• Seattle, WA-based indie /dream pop artist Natalie Lew, aka Sea Lemon “Breakdown” from “Stop at Nothing” EP [Luminelle Recordings]
• Dublin, Ireland indie pop /indie folk singer-songwriter Katie Phelan “Board Games” single via sevenfoursevensix
  
• US retrowave /synth wave /new wave /retro pop act Thunder Run “Come On Feel It”