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.

• Sydney (Eora), Australian alt-rock /shoegaze band ADORER “Underdog” single
  

Compelling, sweeping, highly emotional Shoegaze from Down Under. Yearning for inspiration, urgent, scruffy and impassioned vocals layer with emotional back-ups to vibrate and quiver over bustling drums that fuel meandering and churning overflows of abrasive, fuzzed-out guitar riffs, dense rumbling strokes of distortion, and rippling, high-pitched expanses, creating a heady, engulfing headspace of poignant, noisy seduction.

• French shoegaze /dream-pop /Britpop /indie pop musician and composer Thierry Haliniak (of trio Meyverlin), My Raining Stars “Gaping Wound” from “Helpless / Gaping Wound” 2-track single (outtakes from the Momentum album sessions)
  

Two moody, contemplative outtakes from the last album sessions that certainly would not have been out of place if included. We fancy straightaway the real tearjerker “Gaping Wound”, about the eternal confusion, shock, and darkness left behind by a broken loved one, with its smoothly crisp shuffling drum patterns, hypnotic buzzy shoegaze textures and jangling, echoing wistful guitar melodies that achingly linger and vibrate around sad, regretful, heartbroken vocals.

• Belfast, UK alt-rock /heavy shoegaze solo project from Virgins‘ guitarist/songwriter, Michael Smyth, aka SILK “July” single
  

In his third single, the Belfast musician blends “ethereal textures of shoegaze with a 90s alternative rock punchiness”, sweeping us away with a vibrant, blurry yet poignant downpour of glistening, shimmery guitars, blissed out in reverb, softly bursting and rushingly cascading over hard trudging drum beats and heavy bass throbs, to invigorate dreamy, emotional vocals, adrift in the nagging wistfulness of subtle betrayals, with a frothing fuzz-laden catharsis.

• Tokyo, Japan-based lo-fi /jangle pop /indie rock instrumental project of English musician Kenny Maxwell (aka Band 6), Slow Country “Upright” third single taken from the upcoming debut album
  
• France-based ambient /ethereal /post-rock /dream-pop solo project of Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, audio engineer and legendary Cocteau Twins co-founder, Robin Guthrie “Under Two Blue Stars” (orphan song from 2018)
  
• Dutch ambient /drone /minimal /folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Mariska Baars, aka soccer Committee “Pretty little foxes” from the upcoming LP “Eye” [morctapes]
• Italian/US ambient /electronica /trip-hop /shoegaze /dream-pop duo INTO/NARU/MORI “Ghost” from the first album “The Things We Lost”
  
• Australian ambient /pastoral /electronic /dream pop singer and multi-instrumentalist, Carla dal Forno – Veselka City Lights” off V/A “Going back to sleep…” cassette album [A Colourful Storm]
• US experimental electronic /indietronica duo EAR “Theorem” from the debut LP “The Most Dear and The Future”
  
• Melbourne-based atmospheric pop three-piece Andrew Withycombe, Kerrie Bolton and Bart Cummings (3/4 of The Cat’s Miaow), Hydroplane “Houdini’s Plane” from the upcoming new album “A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim” [Efficient Space]
• L.A. via Minneapolis indie rock /psychedelic /folk solo project of Sophie Weil, aka Syko Friend “Lost It” from the 4th album “Dizzy Magic” [Post Present Medium]
• Dublin, Ireland electronic /folk /indie pop singer-songwriter (The Would Bes’, The Revenants, The Drays and Microdisney), Eileen Gogan “Silver Apples” single
  
• London-based indie pop singer-songwriter-guitarist and Comet Gain frontman, David Christian “From the Singer” from “Blankets and Pillows” EP, ninth of the label’s 2025 EP series [Too Good To Be True]
• Australian indie pop band formed in 1978 in Brisbane, led by singer-songwriter Peter Milton Walsh, The Apartments “A Handful of Tomorrow” from the upcoming studio album “What’s What the Music Is For” [Talitres]
• Portsmouth, UK indie rock /pub-rock band Hotel Lux “Nod (To The Retrospect)” from the upcoming sophomore LP “The Bitter Cup” [State51]
• English–Canadian folk /orchestral pop singer-songwriter John Southworth “Town of the Castle” from upcoming LP “The Red Castle” [TAR / MM / UOH]
• South London lounge /exotica /pop band led by Saul Adamczewski (Fat White Family), aka Insecure Men “Alien” off the second album “A Man For All Seasons” [Fat Possum Records]
• Kaleidoscopic lo-fi bedroom Freakbeat /jangle /Baroque /power pop home recording project of Toronto singer-songwriter-producer Brent Randall and Los Angeles-based drummer Johnny Toomey (The Turns, Electric Looking Glass), aka Vanity Mirror “White Butterfly” from the upcoming second LP “Super Fluff Forever” [Having Fun Records]
• Montreal, Quebec indie rock /dream-pop /subshine pop /psych-pop singer-songwriter Rachel Leblanc, aka Vanille “Lune d’argent” from upcoming third LP “Un chant d’amour” [Bonbonbon records]
• Austin, TX-based post-punk /shoegaze /synth-pop /sophisti-sad pop band fronted by Nicolas Nadeau, Single Lash “Now for the Real World” single
  
• UK dream pop /psych pop four-piece from Canterbury, Tokyo Tea Room “Da Nang” from the collection LP “Worlds Apart (B Sides, Alternatives & Demos)” [Nice Guys]
• Adelaide, Australia new wave /synth-pop solo act Ideal Home “You Can Go Now” from the 2-track single “Holdover”
  
• Vancouver, BC indie /psych-rock band MELTT “Goodbye” single
  
• New York rock’n’roll /baroque pop girl group trio TCHOTCHKE “Skipping Around” from the LP “Playin’ Dumb”
  
• Manchester, UK power wonky pop band Tigers and Flies “Silver Lashings” from the second EP “Smashing Scene”
  
• Portland, OR indie rock /power pop project of Savannah Ramirez, aka Soursop “Tony’s World” from the debut album “Let The Loving Begin”
  
• Malang, Indonesia dream pop /indie pop /alternative pop quintet Girl and Her Bad Mood – “Changes” from the album “Pop Songs, Sad World” [Haum Entertainment]
• Aberdeen, Scotland-based lo-fi indie /psych pop DIY solo project The Terminal Buildings “Room In Your Heart” from “Room In Your Heart” EP
  
• Perth-based, Australian alternative indie pop five-piece Gap Year “Slow Here” from the upcoming second album
  
• UK indie psychedelic jangle pop band featuring members of The Voices and The Electric Mainline, Slow Thrills “All The Good Intentions” 2-track 7″ single [Fuzzed up & Astromoon Records]
• London-based indie pop band formed in 1992 and led by singer-songwriter-guitarist, David Christian (aka David Feck/Charlie Damage), Comet Gain “THE SHINING PATH” from “MAGNETIC GRAFFITI” full reworking/reimagining of the 1996 album “Magnetic Poetry” originally released on Wiiija Records
  
• Derbyshire, UK twee /jangle /indie pop trio The Happy Somethings “Fair Weather Friend” single
  
• Belfast, Northern Ireland bedroom /indie jangle-pop singer-songwriter (former Cruising and Girls Names), Neil Brogan “Nagging Doubt?” single
  
• Somerville, MA jangle guitar pop outfit Strange Passage “Hunter’s Fancy” from the second album “A Folded Sky” [Meritorio Records]
• Leicester, UK jangle indie guitar pop solo project of Neil Hill (aka Neuclouds), Shopfires “Oh Winston” single
  
• Reading, UK 90s Sarah/Shinkansen Records-affiliated legendary indie pop band (Fka Feverfew), Blueboy “Figure Of Eight” from the new album “A Life in Numbers” [Popkiss Recordings]
• London-based indie-pop moniker of Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars and Northern Picture Library) featuring Anne Mari Davies (The Field Mice), aka LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR “There’s More to Life Than Crooks” 2-track single from the sessions for the third “LIATH” album [Elefant Records]
• Brighton, UK jangly noise-pop duo of Jane and Andrew Craig, aka dreamcoaster “Dancing To Your Favourite Song” 1st single from upcoming third LP “Imaginary Reflections” [Duck Race Recording Co.]
• Cardiff, Wales-based ’60s inflected indie pop band THE LOVES “I’m Gonna Get Fucked Up (Peel)” from “Live at the BBC” LP [Precious Recordings of London]
• Auckland, New Zealand indie-pop band formed in 1986, Dead Famous People “How To Be Kind” from the collection album “Wild Young Ways” (long-lost tracks recorded after the band’s move from Auckland to the UK in ’89) [Tiny Global Productions]
• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK lo-fi /scuzzy slacker noise-pop band formed in 1994, Spraydog “Old Missouri” from the LP “Anything Loud In Your Head” [Koue Heaqts]
  
• St. Louis, Missouri dream-pop /indie rock band Algae Dust “Everything That’s True” second full-length album “Rearranging” [Sad Cactus]
• Providence, Rhode Island indie rock-pop duo of James Walsh (Dump Him, Musical Fanzine Records) and Zoë Wyner (Zowy, Halfsour), TIME THIEF “A Brief History of Ordinary Letdowns” from the cassette mini-album “Time Thief” [Lost Sound Tapes]
• London based lo-fi sunshine /indie /dreampop solo project Pale “Not In Love” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Melbourne‘s surf /dream-pop /post-punk /shoegaze band Blanco Tranco “Pinhead Larry” from the upcoming debut LP “The Imagined Life”
  
• Russian 5-piece indie pop-rock band Lurve “Lucky Day” single
  
• Venice, Italy indie /shoegaze /dream pop band Miss Me Molly “SOMEHOW SOMEWHERE” single
  
• California dream-pop /indie pop band Sunder “Lillian” single from upcoming EP “Love, Always” [à La Carte Records]
• Nashville, Tennessee noise pop /indie rock /shoegaze /experimental-pop duo Luna Kupper and Ash Richter, aka Total Wife – “Peaches” from upcoming cassette album “Come Back Down” [Julia’s War Recordings]
• Portland, OR-based alt-shoegaze four-piece Kallai “Falling” from the upcoming sophomore EP “We Are Forever”
  
• Moscow-based electronic-shoegaze band Secrets of the Third Planet (S3P) “Танцевать (Dance)” single
  
• Oslo, Norway electronic /indie /dream pop singer-songwriter Yndling “Falling Behind” off the two-part upcoming second album “Time Time Time (I’m in the Palm of Your Hand)” [Spirit Goth Records]
• Philadelphia-based 4-piece experimental /noise /shoegaze band Her New Knife “kittyriff – They Are Gutting A Body Of Water: re” from upcoming “chrome is lullaby: re” remix EP  [Julia’s War Recordings]
• Dream-pop /shoegaze band from Serbia, OMIDARI “Depression” from “OMI” EP
  
• Los Angeles dream pop /shoegaze /space rock band Modern Time Machines “Ornamental” single
  
• Mechelen-based Italo–Belgian 5-piece post-punk /dream pop /indie-rock /shoegaze band Maquillage “Flowers” from the debut LP “ArMOR” [Shore Dive Records]
• Chicago Noise Rock /Shoegaze /Dream Punk band Old Coke “Let Go” from the upcoming cassette LP “Blood Orange”
  
• Memphis garage punk super group of Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber (Reigning Sound /Oblivians /Compulsive Gamblers) with Abe White (Manateees /True Sons of Thunder) at the helm, Laundry Bats “Nightmare” from the debut LP “Hangin On A String” [HoZac Records]
• Atlanta, GA jangle psychedelia /garage rock /rock ‘n’ roll band fronted by lead vocalist and bassist Patrick O’Connor (aka Buzz Hagstrom from The Woggles), Token Hearts “Behind These Walls” from the s/t album “Token Hearts” [Midnight Cruiser Records]
• Winchester, VA rocknroll /egg punk /power-pop band POWER PANTS “Red Dead” from the 2-track single “CS5”
  
• Memphis, TN indie rock pop quartet featuring guitarist Keith Cooper (OPTIC SINK, AQUARIAN BLOOD, JACK O & THE SHEIKS), drummer Dustin Crops (MARCELLA SIMIEN, KONDOR), bassist Andrew Geraci (SAN SALIDA, ALICJAPOP), and guitar/vocalist Tm. Prudhomme (FUCK, LUVCLOWNS), aka FAKE – “Unamerikan” title track of the 4-track debut 7″ single [Spacecase Records]
• Welland, Ontario alt country /rock and roll /psych rock band led by singer-songwriter Daniel Romano, aka Daniel Romano’s Outfit “Servo” from “Servo / Dumb Love” 7″ EP [You’ve Changed Records]
• Washington, DC minimal avant pop group featuring D. Trevor Kampmann (hollAnd) and Mark Robinson (Unrest, Flin Flon), Uncomfortable Police “Hazmat Kat” from 4-track 7″ EP “Hazmat Kat”
  
• Depok, Indonesia indie /noise pop musical project by Addi (part of Is Modest, The Lousy Pop Group, and Frys), Race “ Beat Him Up (Helen Love‘s Cover)” single [Chaotic Pop recs]
• Berlin-based indie rock /post-punk /krautrock band (formerly of Gurr), Laura Lee & the Jettes “Tough Love Paradigm” title track of the second LP “Tough Love Paradigm” [Unsolicited Advice Records]
• Gothenburg, Sweden, shoegaze /post-punk /rock’nroll /indie rock duo of Magnus Borg and Max Lingmark, Missiles “A Precious Box On A Hill” from the album “Consolation Ruins”
  
• Brooklyn, NY shoegaze /indie rock band LAPÊCHE “Happy 4U” from the 2026 third LP “Autotelic” [tiny engines]
• Toronto indie rock/dream pop duo Babygirl “All Is Well” from the upcoming LP “Stay Here Where It’s Warm” [Arts & Craft]
• Oberlin, OH experimental /shoegaze /electronic /dream pop guitarist and vocalist Mari Park “you don’t cry” off “you don’t cry” EP
  
• Berlin-based ambient /drone /ethereal /folk project of artist, DJ, and radio.syg.ma co-founder, Sasha Zakharenko, aka Perila “Station dust” single