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

• Toulouse-based lo-fi dream pop /emo /sadcore home recorded solo project of Manon Raupp (part of Docks, No Drama, Vemberlain), Comité balnéaire “6h26” from upcoming cassette EP “Augures” [Hidden Bay Records]

Blending Slowcore’s dilated, emotionally drenched intensity and Emo’s openhearted catharsis, “6h26” talks about taking a solitary walk during the final hour of night to learn and process the latent emotions residing beneath the surface. Punctuated by a sparse, repetitive, stark drum machine, the sonorous, crisp pulses from a bleak bassline intertwine with spiraling clear-cut forlorn guitar arpeggios, subtly swept by icy synth breaths that slowly and obsessively evolve into a tighter and tenser sound density to sustain melancholic, bitter, echo-like vocals, fading, like a ghost, into a cathartic finale of triumphant screams.

• Atlanta, Georgia ambient /folk /shoegaze /slowcore project by Brent Collins, No Wake Area “Soon” debut single
  

Intimate and atmospheric folk-gaze debut single from the low-key side project of the Atlanta based DIY musician and composer Brent Collins (a.k.a. Slo Moon), which slinkily winds through rubbery bass pulses and soft, steady percussion into a reflective blanket of liquid, shimmering filigrees of wistful reverberated guitars, cocooning sad, emotional vocals that rise toward a high hopeful pitch, to explore being lost and full of confused regret, yet faithful that support and direction will arrive.

• Brighton, UK jangly gaze noise-pop duo Jane and Andrew Craig, aka dreamcoaster “Just Turn Around” single
  

One-off single, “firmly in the duo’s sweet spot between jangle pop and dreampop”, that says when things get too far off the ground, one should turn around, self-reflect, and then try again. It takes us into a warm, melancholic pulsing vortex sewn by slightly distorted, shuddering guitar textures, swooning keyboards and soaring sparkling six-string melodies, to envelop dulcet, heartfelt female vocals, soothing with breezy, ethereal layers, blissed out with comfort and understanding.

• Chattanooga, Tennessee based ambient /dream-pop /ethereal electronic visual artist and songwriter, Paulina Fae “A Garden For Mechanical Birds” title track of the new EP “A Garden For Mechanical Birds”
  
• Rotterdam-based ambient /abstract /drone /field recordings /experimental /minimalistic /electroacoustic /poetry /electronic composer, singer & producer, Michel Banabila “A Wave Across Galaxies” from “Slipped Away” LP [Tapu Records]
• Seattle domestic indie folk singer-songwriter Sasha Sarene “Feel Intuit” 1st single from the debut cassette album “Baby Eyes” [Lost Sound Tapes]
• Athens, GA/Quebec, QC ambient /indie /ECM-style jazz /yacht rock /dream pop duo of musicians Nick Glade and Nicolas Chabot-Leclerc, aka Glade Leclerc “Walk In Tide” from the debut “Tour” LP [Primordial Void]
• London jazz /psych-folk rock musical group (FKA Large Plants) of Jack Sharp (Wolf People), Paul Milne (Hanging Stars, Green Seagull), Itamar Rubinger (Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats), and Naomi Randall, The Thorn “La Pernette” (French traditional)
  
• Berlin-based ethereal wave /chamber pop /dream pop /folk solo project German-Brazilian multidisciplinary visual artist and musician Gloria De Oliveira “The Wind Took it Away” single [La Double Vie]
• Paris-based cold-pop duo Diana Vaughan – “L’eau salée” 1st single from the debut album “Les Bêtes [Vicious Circle Records]
• London-based ambient/drone-pop group The Leaf Library – “cloud stitching” from the upcoming V/A “Bushelling” a collection album of mending music sewn by textile designer & repair specialist, Alexandra Brinck [wiaiwya]
• Transatlantic band post-punk /indie /dreamwave /dream pop project of UK musicians David Obuchowski (Publicist UK, Goes Cube) and Patrick Hannan (The SUNDAYS, theaudience) feat. singer France Belleville, The Wild Fell “Sitting In The Dark With You” from “Sitting In The Dark With You b/w These Echoes”
  
• Richmond, VA atmospheric /cinematic /drone /indie rock /slowcore five piece band Visiting Hour “Sacred Estate” from the self-titled debut LP [DIG! Records]
• Cork, Ireland sadcore /alternative avant folk band since 1999, Boa Morte “Bird” from the upcoming fifth album “Signal:Lost”
  
• Worthing, UK jangly indie pop solo project of Mark Cohen (part of mid-80s Horsham pop duo, The Beat Circus), The Shining Hour “Good Friends (A Celebration)” [originally recorded in October 2008]
• Wollongong, Australia C86-style indie pop duo Sidesleepers “Oh, Jonathan” from the debut LP “Like an almost scalding cup of tea”
  
• Tokyo, Japanese ambient /acid folk /garage /psychedelic /indie pop sextet featuring Yoko Satori (Penny Arcade), Yūji and Tomomi (Red Go-Cart), Miki Hirose (Ko-kyū, Smokebees, and Red Go-Cart) and Masato Saito (Pervenche), aka The Moment of Nightfall “Twee Bee” (previously unreleased) from the expanded version of the 2025 album “Memories Disappear In Echoes (Espanded version)” CD/cassette [Clover Records]
• Tokyo, Japan ambient / bedroom pop /indie folk solo project of former Smokebees frontman Taku Sudo, aka Desksnail “City Lights” from the debut album “Lights Leak” [galaxy train]
• Brisbane leftfield jangle indie pop band Greg Brady and The Anchors “Heart” from “The Melancholy Set (And A Hit)” EP [Subjangle]
• Melbourne indie jangle-garage pop foursome (former members of Chook Race, Dippers, Ill Globo, and Permits), The Sprouts “Hit Me Go Down” 1st single from the album “Singin’ With The Sprouts” [Meritorio Records / Lost and Lonesome]
• Melbourne/Naarm psych /indie-folk duo of Winter McQuinn (Sunfruits, jade imagine) and Acacia Pip (PINCH POINTS, Slush), Winter McQuinn & Acacia Pip “Exactly The Same” from their sophomore 2xEP “Disassociating On The Travelator” [Third Eye Stimuli Records]
• Sydney-based 5-piece jangle pop /folk rock DIY outfit The Brights “The Means of Production” single
  
• Bedford, UK synth-pop /indie rock DIY solo project Last Days Of Rome “If You Want To Live Like This” lead single from the upcoming 5th album
  
• Nashville, Tennessee psych /indie rock quartet Make Yourself At Home “Leaf” single [Second Floor Recording Co.]
• Indonesian twee noise pop outfit WILD GRASS PICTURE “I WON’T BE ANYONE’S SHEEP” from a-side only cassette “All Things are Nothing to Me” [disanorak]
• Transatlantic new wave /dream-pop /gothic /indie trio formed in 2020 by US lyricist Lisa Ann Swain, Dutch producer/multi-instrumentalist Drew Campbell, and vocalist Anna Rea, Sleeps Under Beams “Love Always, Veronika” single [Subscotia Records]
• Melbourne shoegaze /indie pop /dream pop duo Grazer “Don’t Be So Harsh (feat. Berlin Tourist)” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• St. Louis, Missouri shoegaze / indie rock quartet Shady Bug “My Night Routine” 1st single from the LP “I wanted to be there”
  
• Austin, TX experimental /shoegaze /dream pop female artist DOTTIE “Doll” single
  
• Toronto-based ambient /dream pop /shoegaze collaborative project of artist Jonathan Relph, aka Indoor Voices “Picking” from the LP “Terrors” [1991 Recordings ]
• Chicago indie rock /shoegaze band Hearthands “Swan” single
  
• Brussels-based indie rock /shoegaze band The Bernadette Maries “The Closer You Look” off the upcoming debut album, “Soft” [Géographie]
• Fresno, CA ambient /doomgaze /post-rock /shoegaze singer-songwriter Candyapplered “buzz” from the debut single “abcd passage / buzz”
  
• Bogor, Indonesia dream pop /shoegaze /indie pop band Meraung “Evening Rain (Demo)”
  
• Montreal, Québec 3-piece dream-pop /shoegaze band Fleeting Colours “Autumn” single
  
• Edinburgh, UK grunge /shoegaze /dream-pop band Puppy Teeth “That Time” 3rd single of the debut EP “Teething”
• Transatlantic indie rock /shoegaze quartet Sky Is Alright “Summer In Galt” 1st single from the forthcoming first album in five years, “FINITE” [Shore Dive Records]
• Fano, Italy shoegaze \ dream pop solo project of Michele Cingolani, Waving Blue “Wake Me” first single from the forthcoming album “Black Heart”
  
• Derby, UK post-rock/dream pop/shoegaze DIY solo musical project After Daylight “The Death Of Everything” first excerpt from the forthcoming After Daylight album, “The Mortal Coil”
  
• Tokyo, Japan Dream Pop /Shoegazer /Alternative Rock trio Nuit “Start Again” 1st single from the second LP “Impossible Dream” [DREAMWAVES RECORDS]
• Galway, Ireland fuzzed out alt-rock /shoegaze band In Athens “Dead Reckoning” off upcoming debut EP “MIRRORISM” [Blowtorch Records]
• Northern California longstanding dreamgaze quintet Soft Science “Sway” from the 5th album “Sand” [Spinout Nuggets (UK) / Shelflife Records ( US)]
• Paris-based ambient /noise-rock /shoegaze band moon-li 历 “Unworthy” single
  
• Ontario noise pop /shoegaze band, Closeout “Soothe” single
  
• Nancy, France shoegaze /noise pop band April’s Fish “All Men” single [BMM Records]
• Dublin-Limerick, Ireland 4-piece post-hardcore /slowcore /emo /shoegaze /alt-rock band girlfriend. “Kitchen Sink” off the second LP “Carousel”
  
• Philadelphia psych-sludge-gaze band Heliocentric Overdrive “Super Cluster” single [Patetico Recordings]
• Texas-based folk /psychedelic pop singer-songwriter Bill Baird “Horse Moon” from “Life Creates Itself” LP [Royal Oakie Records]
• Chicago lo-fi ’60s baroque pop /garage /noise rock n’ roll collective led by Eli Schmitt and Cole Hunt, TV Buddha “I Don’t Want You” 2nd single from the debut “Hallelujah Anyway” LP [ever/never records]
• Glasgow, UK shoegaze /psychedelic /indie rock /fuzzy noise pop band led by Graham Kemp (former member of Urusei Yatsura), Calacas “Wickerman (Demo)” from “Ghost Map Demo” EP (2009 Demos)
  
• Cardiff/Bristol-based Kraut Psychedelic Noise Rockers SOUNDWIRE “These Little Moments” from “These Little Moments / 20/20″ lathe-cut 7” single [Fuzzed up & Astromoon Records]
• Stoke on Trent, UK psychedelic garage band The Crystal Teardrop – “Tomorrow Starts Today” first single from The Crystal Teardrop’s second studio album, “Love You More” [Rise Above Records]
• Las Vegas Mod Psych-Garage Rock band Laissez Fairs “Smashing Windows” from the EP “5 Believers” [Rum Bar Records]
• Greek 60s garage punk 4-piece band (made of scene veterans from The Frantic Five, The Jacks, The Overtones, Tenderfeet), The Rubbers “Summer Is Gone” title track of the debut 7″ EP [Sunnyboy ’66 Records]
• Prague, Czechia garage /pych /post-punk band Secondhand daylight “Cheapest Paint” from “The Unquiet” EP
  
• New Zealand experienced Drone Indie Rock musician Sandra Bell “Say Yes” from “The Court Of Love” EP
  
• Melbourne-based, Wagga Wagga-born indie pop /folk rock musician (The Ocean Party, Popfilter, Snowy Band), Liam Snowy Halliwell “The Forest” from the upcoming first solo LP “Pure Joy” [Blossom Rot Records]
• Flagstaff, AZ indie rock /folk rock trio The Sways “Blue Sky, Don’t Cry” single [Rounder Records]
• Lancashire, UK wyrd psychedelic folk enigmatic musician and composer performed on homemade acoustic instrumentation, Thorn Wych “Serpent Psalm” from “Aesthesis” LP [Tompkins Square]
• Ontario-based ambient /ethereal /acoustic /family folk trio, Mystikana “Through the Earth” title track of the album “Through the Earth”
  
• Houston, TX-raised folk musician, singer and songwriter Trevor Reichman “The Border Song” from V/A “Sing Across the Borderline” fundraising compilation [Dear Life Records]
• Berlin-based ambient /holy minimalism /pastoral psychedelia /folklore /wyrd folk multi-instrumentalist, record maker & harp slinger, Andy Aquarius “Vale Of Tears” from the upcoming “Vale Of Tears” LP [Matter Wheel Press]
• UK ambient /pastoral /rural soundscape /meditative /cinematic /post-rock /electronic musician Ben Holton, aka The Balloonist “Curtain Light” from the upcoming LP “Spirit Duplicator” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• Prague-based, Nottingham, UK-born instrumental soundtrack /spoken word /composer, musician and Tindersticks keyboardist, David Boulter “Broken” from the album “Lowrey” 10″/CD (Music inspired by my Lowrey Organ)