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

• New York-based lo-fi jangle indie pop project by Phil Sutton (Pale Lights, Cinema Red and Blue and once of Comet Gain), Love, Burns “Just for a While” from Love, Burns’ upcoming new 7-track mini-album “Blue” co-released by Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten (EU), Jigsaw Records and Calico Cat Records (US)
  

The first excerpt from the upcoming Mini-LP by Love, Burns will catch the ears of all lovers of the most refined and crystalline emotional-ridden jangly guitar pop, washed in enveloping Hammond-like shivering organ grooves, with Phil’s heartfelt vocals, never so streaked with a sullen romantic croon ala Lloyd Cole, layered with nostalgic echoes, to uplift with soul-stirring intentions, ‘give love a chance’ and ‘give it a little more time’. Are you ready to have your pop heart broken?

• Chicago, IL drone pop /psych-pop /slowcore /dream pop trio DESERT LIMINAL “Kid Detroit” from upcoming third full-length album “Black Ocean” via Whited Sepulchre Records
  

Chicago experimental pop trio’s first preview from the upcoming third LP is about a past tour experience when the two founding members Quillin and Logan were both devastated by grief and loss. Aching sentimental vocals coast sadly above a softly swaying ocean of hypnotic resonant snare beats, twinkling nostalgic piano melodies, fuzz-laden guitar textures and excruciating spindly reverberating flourishes, amid heartfelt lilting backups, wishing she could rewrite her life over again.

• Lancaster, Pennsylvania post-rock /shoegaze /indie rock solo project of Kody Stieve, aka Joyful Forfeit “No Better. No Worse.” the first single off the upcoming early 2025 LP via Neon Bloodbath Records               

The first excerpt from the next EP with his distinctive electrifying fusion of Indie Rock, Post-Rock and Shoegaze. Equally noisy, ringing, and invigorating, certainly with no lack of heartfelt emotions, “No Better. No Worse.” scrapes and meanders through a vibrant nostalgic tapestry of crunchy riffs, echoing sparkling wistful melodies and high-pitched aching resonances, to glide out and soar loosely above sad yet hopeful vocals.

• Stirling, UK-based cinematic /experimental /soundtrack music /electronic pop multi-instrumentalist and composer Mark Tranmer (The Montgolfier Brothers, Wingdisk, Vetchinsky Settings, Bad Dancers Collide), aka GNAC “The Trials Of Dr Pangloss (Demo)” from the 25th anniversary edition of the 1999 debut album “Friend Sleeping” 2xCD/Vinyl 12″ on ‘Vertical Features Reissues‘
  
• Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /electroacoustic /electronic musician (one half of husband-wife duo Mint Julep), Hollie Kenniff “Amare (feat. Helios)” single [Nettwerk]
• Japanese ambient /classical /leftfield /experimental /dreampop artist CUUSHE – “Faded Corners” new single via FLAU
  
• Berlin–based, Belarus-native experimental /ambient /minimal /jazz noir /electronic musician and singer, Galina Ozeran aka CHIKISS “DKN” first single from the forthcoming album via Bureau B
  
• New York electronic /psych /shoegaze /dream pop duo Kempt “Blissing?” title track of the cassette EP “Blissing?” via Moon Sounds Records
  
• Danish–Chilean ambient /synth /dream pop /art pop composer Molina “Organs feat. ML Buch” from the upcoming LP “When You Wake Up” [Escho]
• UK experimental /psych-pop /dreamwave collaboration between Glasgow-based bedroom pop songsmith Sotelo (Order of the Toad, Dancer and Nightshift) and London‘s singer and musician Mary Currie (of Flaming Tunes, Officer! ’80s fame) backed by electronic producer Joe Howe, Robert Sotelo & Mary Currie “Expectations” from upcoming “Dream Songs” EP 7″ via Upset The Rhythm
  
• Bottrop, Germany lo-fi /kraut /shoegaze /dream hypnagogic pop musician and composer Gorden Spangardt (ex-Kirmes, GRDN.), aka The Interlaken Tapes “Soda” from “The Interlaken Tapes” (EP) CD/cassette via Bureau Platiruma!!!
  
• New York lo-fi bedroom /psych-pop /shoegaze singer-songwriter xtine, aka Rag Doll “Night walker” from “Tokyo Diary” single
  
• Edinburgh, Scotland ethereal /indie folk /dream pop singer-songwriter Ailsa McEwan, aka Ailsa and the Seahorses “Mercury” single
  
• Christchurch, NZ shoegaze /dreampop singer-songwriter Mayzie “You” single via Cerine Ruby
  
• Japanese bossanova /indie pop /neo-acoustic /fictional soundtrack collaboration, Shino Kobayashi x Small Garden – “Mijn Nijntje” from the original soundtrack “Mijn Nijntje” 7″ EP via blue-very label
  
• UK lo-fi folk /art pop duo The Gabys “Ode” off the 4-track self-titled EP 7″ via Fruits & Flowers
  
• Melbourne’s early 2000s founded, indie pop recording project of Alexis Hall, The Motifs  “Yours and Mine” from “Love and I​.​.​.” EP CD via se Dessaisir Publishing
  
• Portland, OR mid-90s minimal folk /twee /indie-pop duo Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia, aka The Softies “Don’t Fall Apart” from the comeback album ” The Bed I Made” via Father/Daughter Records
  
• London-based dreamy psych-pop band led by Blackpool-bred artist Nicolas Burrows (FKA Glaciers), Fell “Lemonade” PostMap Club 189 single via Lost Map Records
  
• Swedish electro-indie-pop band led by André Brorsson formed in Malmö in 2005, Stars in Coma “Aluminum” from the upcoming album “We Were Already Islands”
  
• The Stone Roses “She Bangs The Drums” slowed down cover of 1989 Madchester classic by Wolverhampton, UK nu-disco producer Will Perry (aka Peza)
  
• Southend-On-Sea via London based indie folk pop-rock singer-songwriter Alfie Firmin “Make It Right” from the new album “This Time Around”
  
• Dunedin, New Zealand Alternative Indie Pop quartet Marlin’s Dreaming “Country Plaines” from the new album “HIRL”
  
• Singapore indie rock-pop DIY one-boy band led by Juan Sawit (FKA In Space), Floral Sky “Back Then” from the debut EP “Count The Days”
  
• Australian guitar indie pop band (former members of the Ocean Party, Cool Sounds, and Snowy Band), Pop Filter “Fragile” from the upcoming second LP “Ray and Lorraine’s” via Bobo Integral
  
• Leicester, UK-based DIY jangle /indie pop solo laptop recording DIY project of Neil Hill, Shopfires “Where We Belong” from the forthcoming “Surplus” EP
  
• San Francisco power indie jangle pop band led by Andy Pastalaniec, aka Chime School “Desperate Days” from the sophomore LP “The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel” via Slumberland Records
  
• Glasgow-based C86 /jangly indie /twee-pop collective led by Craig Dunlop (Milk Aisle Gorbachev), I Wanna Be A Truck Driver “Hole Underground” from the 2-track single “Hole Underground & Evans and Bevans”            
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /C86 /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “You​’​ll Never Find It, This Way” off “Daisy Bought A CD Player’ b/w ‘You’ll Never Find It, This Way” the final single from the upcoming 12th album “From The Corners Of My Cold Room” CD via Salt Mine Records
  
• Vancouver, BC C86 /cuddlecore /twee /indie pop trio WUT “Beuys Oh Beuys” from the debut album “Mingling with the Thorns” via HHBTM Records
  
• Seattle, WA lo-fi indie rock band Sleeping Bag “Troll 3” single
  
• Connecticut garage /rock & roll /indie rock band Shirese “Sacred Heart” from upcoming third LP “Hardly Cricket” co-released by Grapefruit Records and C/Site Recordings
  
• Preston, Australia jangle /indie rock band RVG “Don’t Take It Badly” from the 2-track 7″ single “Don’t Take It Badly / Pet Sematary” via Fire Records
  
• Bay Area fuzzy /psych /indie pop trio (former members of Ruby Pins), Hits “Totally Bereft” from the vinyl album “World Of Dirt” via Paisley Shirt Records
  
• Clare, Australia dream /indie /jangle pop band The Boltons “You Miserable Bastard” single
  
• Akron, OH indie rock /jangle /power-pop 4-piece LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS “Hello Operator” single via Big Stir Records
  
• St. Louis, Missouri indie rock duo Shawn and Allison Durham, aka Picture That “Try” from the debut LP “Strum” via Inscrutable Records
  
• Easthampton, Massachusetts indie rock quartet All Feels “Possessed” single from upcoming debut cassette LP “THIS PLACE IS A MESSAGE” via Flower Sounds
  
• Toronto-based shoegazey, noisy, grungy ,post-rock-y solo project Slowly “Prayer to God” (Shellac cover)
  
• Boston, MA post-punk /indie rock /folk 5-piece band Rain House “Mona Lisa” from the S/T EP
  
• Portland, OR psych /shoegaze /dream-pop duo Shady Cove “Midwest (Slowed​+​Reverb)” single
  
• Logan, Utah post-rock /shoegaze /slowcore band dustdust “Vision” debut single
  
• Indonesia Alternative Pop /Dream Pop band from Jakarta, Daisea “Polarized Dream” off the debut album, “Cycles” via Narimo Records
  
• Gold Coast, Australia dream-pop project DREAM POP “Everyday” single
  
• New Jersey indie /shoegaze /dream pop solo project Skot Kremen “When you call” single
  
• Estonian indie /dream-pop band led by Mariin Kallikorm (former member of London’s indie band Wyldest), mariin k. “Beach” (single) via Seksound Record Label
  
• Groningen, Netherlands post-rock /shoegaze /indie rock trio meadowlake “Rivers” second single from Meadowlake’s third album “Where the Mountain Meets the Sea”
  
• New York dream pop /shoegaze band Head Sound “Home” single
  
• Los Angeles based noise-pop /shoegaze /indie rock band host family “Dromedary” single
  
• Portland, Maine-based emo /slowcore /dreampop /shoegaze twin brother duo Jake and Jeff Turner, aka XO “Love Again” off the EP “Spirit Looking Out”
  
• Chicago, IL dream-pop /shoegaze duo Sunshy “Are you still watching” off the upcoming debut album “I don’t care what comes next”
  
• New York-based Lo-Fi /Shoegaze /Dream Pop duo of Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar, aka Phantom Handshakes “Stranger’s Ride” from the new album “Sirens at Golden Hour” via Start-track.com
  
• Bath, UK dream rock /shoegaze project of Jenn Zed, aka ZED POINT “Mouth Breather” single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden shoegaze band L23 “Eternal Dance” single
  
• Berlin based indie rock /noise /shoegaze trio This Love Is Deadly “Fever Scene” from “The Other Side” EP
  
• South Texas alternative rock /dreampop /shoegaze solo project Fun With Ether “happy trail” single
  
• Williamsburg/Brooklyn dream pop /indie rock solo project of Nicholas Greenberg, aka Slow Collision “Drive” from the upcoming second EP “I’m Too High, I Can’t Jump”
  
• Seattle, WA lo-fi /indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze duo RILEY’S MOUNTAIN “Plead” single
  
• Paris-based, South Korean emo /dream pop /shoegaze project Syupeo Jenjang “Take It Or Leave It” from “The End Of The Line” EP
  
• US atmospheric black metal /shoegaze /blackgaze artist Damián Antón Ojeda, AKA Sadness “Bury your kiss in me” from the album “Your perfect hands and my repeated words”
  
• Hong Kong six piece alternative rock /shoegaze band Arches “Hate” single
  
• Pittsburgh‘s lo-fi /shoegaze /alternative-rock /indie rock outfit Ex Pilots “Hannah” off the upcoming second album “Motel Cable” via Smoking Room Records
  
• Hamburg, Germany ‘dream punk’ / shoegaze /post-punk project of Dirk Knight, SEASURFER “A Short Term Effect (ft. Apolonia)” (interpretation of 1982 The Cure song)
  
• New York 5-piece electronic /indie /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band GIFT “It’s All Too Fast” from the debut LP “Illuminator” via Captured Tracks
  
• London, UK dark psychedelic /gothic post-punk duo Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers, aka BLACK DOLDRUMS “Hideaway” from the upcoming second album “In Limerence” via Fuzz Club Records
  
• Houston, TX Noisy Garage Psychedelic Rock band The Albinos “Only One I Know” single
  
• Aberdeen, Scotland fuzzy psychedelic rock five-piece Floating Heads “Killing Floor” from the second “Crawl” EP
  
• Stockholm, Sweden garage /art rock quartet (former members of Cat Princess, Delsbo Beach Club and more), aka Alpha Pet “Snake Eyes” single via Rama Lama Records
  
• New Jersey post-punk /garage punk band Operants “In the Hell Rock” from the cassette EP “Mass Monomania” via Defective Tapes
  
• NYC garage /rock & roll /power pop band led by “Mighty Joe Vincent (The Prissteens, The Swingin’ Neckbreakers, The Devil Dogs), Junior Varsity “Back To Reno” from the debut “Where The Groove Is” EP via Rum Bar Records
  
• Panama City grunge /post-punk /alt-rock /noise rock band Cycling “Coin Locker Baby” from debut EP “Rapid Eye Movement”
  
• NYC noise pop /indie rock band UV-TV ”The Optimistic Wrench” title track of the upcoming “The Optimistic Wrench” LP via Papercup Music and No Non-Fiction
  
• Oakland, CA indie rock trio Fake Fruit “Long Island Iced Tea” from the sophomore album “Mucho Mistrust” via Carpark Records
  
• Manchester, UK indie rock duo Nile Marr & Kaylen Alan Krebsbach, aka Share “I’d Come Running” single
  
• L.A. alt-rock /grunge /indie rock singer-songwriter Blondshell “What’s Fair” single via Partisan Records
  
• Newmarket, New Hampshire dreampop duo Planet Parlor “Wait For The Sun” single
  
• Glasgow, UK soundtrack /psych /doo-wop /experimental band The Rotations “The Cat That Got The Cream” single