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.

• Birmingham, UK-based shoegaze /post-rock band Our Worlds Collide “Nothing At All” off of the upcoming debut album “The Stranger” [1991 Recordings]

With a heady brew of psychedelic-tinged, spacey post-rock-informed, mesmeric Shoegaze sound, the sonically adventurous Brummie outfit delivers an immersive and introspective trippy 3-minute jam, stirred up by an eruptive rush of loose shuffling, skittering drumming awash in hypnotic droning layers of reverberating hissing guitar distortion, to entrap soft, sad, slightly angsty vocals in a restrained, swirling seething chaos, before falling breathlessly under a slippery surface that keeps getting further and further away.

• Sydney, Australia noise /shoegaze five-piece All Sparks Burn Out “Charred” off “Charred” EP
  

Sydney veteran Shoegazers return with an expansive, noisy and sensorially immersive new single “Charred”, bending a churning undercurrent of gated reverbed drums, steadfast bass pulses, and fuzzy metallic distorted guitar mists around wistful ecstatic female vocals, radiating upward, toward a cool ethereal dome, amidst stubborn pain-filled squealing and trembling effect-laden guitar flows, to choose a new, untraveled path, rather than the same old one that leads to self-destruction.

• Boston, MA psych rock /noise /shoegaze band Magic Shoppe “Oh, No!” from the sixth EP “Resurrection Machine” [Little Cloud Records (US/CAN) / FuzzedUp & AstroMoon Records (UK/EU)]

Boston outfit masters their genuine Shoegaze songwriting and sonic craft. Perfect-pitched building and layered guitars twist, twirl, ripple, and wend a heavy haze of fluid distortion, amid sonic abrasions and ethereal, perpetually melancholic submerged vocals, into a circular yet seamlessly dynamic and bendy rhythmic flow that oozes an engaging, mesmerizing cosmic depth, getting us trapped in a delightful, surreal, boisterous vortex that spurs repeat listening.

• Norwegian Ambient /Cinematic /Cosmic /Psych /Jazz /Krautrock /Soundtrack /Neo-Classical /Instrumental music composer and multi-instrumentalist Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, aka Rural Tapes “Bird’s-Eye View” from the upcoming album “Oneiric” [Clay Pipe Music]
• Tokyo, Japan-based lo-fi /jangle pop /indie rock instrumental project of English musician Kenny Maxwell (aka Band 6), Slow Country “Buenaventura Boy” from the debut album “You Still Believe in Me”
  
• Brooklyn, NY’s worldly /genre-bending acoustic trio City of the Sun – “Cinderella Man” single [Nettwerk Music Group]
• Italian-born, London-based ambient /minimal /cinematic /folk songwriter and composer, Laura Loriga “May You” off upcoming EP “Moon Talk” [God Unknown Records]
• St. Louis, Missouri ambient /shoegaze/indie folk singer-songwriter Demi Haynes (of St. Louis shoegaze band Seashine), aka Moth Hands “Torn” from the debut album “Surfacing”
  
• Narrm-based, Australian ambient /improv /experimental pop /psych /folk collective of four musicians, Cold Hands Warm Heart “Mouth mist (live fro NTS)” from the upcoming live/remix album “Day and night have equal weight” LP
  
• French experimental /house /kraut /psych /bass /death-disco /dub /downtempo DJ-producer and La Belle label owner, Antoine Harispuru aka GOLDEN BUG “L’effet domino feat. Anna Jean & The Liminanas” from “Piscolabis II (Anniversary Edition)” LP [La Belle Records]
• Franco–Algerian ambient /field recordings /chaabi /dream-pop /folk songwriter and composer LÉO LA NUIT “Les bourgeons” from the album “LE DON DES LARMES” [Knekelhuis]
• Italian indie rock /dream pop solo project I’m The Villain – “This Joyful Nostalgia” single [Sputnik Music Group]
• Brighton, UK shoegaze /dream-pop /indie folk singer-songwriter Archie Sagers “Towan” from the second album “Dreams Along The Shore” [Crafting Room Recordings]
• Leipzig-based Dream Pop /Psychedelic Rock /Dark Pop /New Wave band Twins in Colour “The Perks Of Being A Warflower” 2nd single from upcoming “We´ve Been To The Future” LP [All my ghosts]
• French electronica /experimental pop /”chanson” duo Victoria Suter and Mathieu Daubigné, aka O’o “La Mésange (Françoise Hardy Cover)” from the album “More Wishes, Less Bones” [InFinè]
• France/US retro /soul /psychedelic pop collaboration between Melody Prochet and Leon Michels, aka Melody’s Echo Chamber & El Michels Affair “Daisy” single [Domino Recording Co]
• London-based legendary avant pop band Stereolab “Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown” from “Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown” double A-side 7″ single [Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records]
• Los Angeles-based darkwave /post-punk /psychedelic /dream pop project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Steven Fleet, aka Dream Bodies “Limerence” single
  
• New London, Connecticut bedroom indie pop-rock solo project of Emma Willer (member of the band Boyscott), Lazy Trail “Daydream” from the LP “The Sound” [Happen Twice Records]
• Brooklyn, NY shoegaze /dream pop /indie rock band Laveda “Tim Burton’s Tower” from the third LP “Love, Darla” [Bar/None Records]
• Christchurch, NZ dream-pop /indie rock band Yumi Zouma – “Drag” from the LP “No Love Lost to Kindness” [Nettwerk]
• Sydney, Australia indie /dream pop trio EGOISM “Addison Road (Trust Me)” from the 2-track single “(Trust Me)”
  
• Sheffield, UK jangle /dream wave /cream pop three-piece Pale Blue Eyes “Don’t Hurry Time” off the 2-track single “New Boots” [Republic of Music]
• Berlin-based dream pop /shoegaze /indie rock band Samt Martin “Golden Days” single [Grantler Records]
• Eastern Massachusetts/Southern Vermont jangle /noise pop /indie rock four-piece band (members of Huevos II, Luxor Rentals, Sore Eros, Jeanines and Estrogen Highs), Creative Writing “Memory Light” third excerpt from the debut album “Baby Did This” [Meritorio Records]
• Gloucester, Massachusetts psych-folk /dream pop /jangle pop singer-songwriter and musician Michael Telles (formerly known as Night Heron), aka 3 A.M. Again “Out of the Tomb” from “Closer Each Time” EP
  
• English ’60s pop indie /psych-pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist BLAKE “Scapegoating” single
  
• Cebu City, Philippines 5-piece post-Britpop /indie rock band Kubra Commander “There’s Something On My Mind” single [Lilystars Records]
• Indonesian twee indie pop kid’s group Monetaries “Beauty manipulator” from the debut “Away from world” EP [forfun.cookies]
• Los Angeles-based jangle pop/wave /indie /shoegaze band led by Laurence Macaspac, Swimming Pools & Movie Stars “Distant Sky” from the album “Airspace” [Subjangle]
• Leicester, UK indie guitar pop side project of Shopfires‘ Neil Hill, NEUCLOUDS “You’re Not My Friend” single
  
• Scotland C86 /indie pop duo of sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi, The Cords “When You Said Goodbye” 3rd single from the upcoming debut s/t LP “The Cords” [Skep Wax]
• Lexington, Kentucky jangle pop /slacker /indie rock outfit Fatal Plate “Too Easy” from the debut s/t album
  
• Long Beach, CA dream pop /indie rock quartet Sweet Nobody “revenge” single [Repeating Cloud Records]
• Brisbane-based slacker /indie rock /dolewave trio People Mover “Scratch” off the debut album “Cane Trash” [Little Lunch Records]
• Swedish power pop /indie rock foursome Great Hare “Love & Solitude” single
  
• Montreal, Québec punk /jangle /garage /rock ’n’ roll quartet The Wesleys “Magic Wand” off the upcoming “Explosive Device” EP paired in the vinyl edition with their first “Outside Voices” EP [Meritorio Records / Petit Village Records]
• Leeds, UK-based indie rock-pop band Tulpa “Let’s Make A Tulpa!” first single off the debut LP “Monster Of The Week” [Skep Wax Records]
• Brisbane, Australia janglegaze /spaghetti western /shoegaze / dream pop /surfgaze quartet Double Happiness “The Shift” from the third LP “SPACETIME” [4000 Records]
• Surabaya, Indonesia indie pop band The Caroline’s “kamu adalah sebagian dari kota ini, segala musim yang pernah kita lalui” from 2-track single “maxi-25”
  
• Montréal, Quebec art-rock trio Garden of Love “Another Wall” from upcoming debut LP “Love Is Coming” [ever/never records]
• Alternative rock /guitar pop /shoegaze collaborative project between Mark Gardener (from Oxford‘s Ride), Bologna‘s Giulio Sangirardi (from Votiva Lux) and legendary drummer, Neil Conti (Prefab Sprout, David Bowie, Mick Jagger), aka Nord Electric “Traces” from upcoming EP Loneliness For Sale” [Outer Battery Records]
• Mexico shoegaze /psychedelic rock duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete “Control” 2nd single from upcoming LP “Corporal” [Sonic Cathedral]
• Granada, Spain alternative /doomgaze /post-rock /shoegaze /slowcore quartet Ramper “En nuestros últimos días” from the upcoming LP “Solo postres en Teatros del Canal” [Humo international]
• Philadelphia, PA ambient /dream pop /shoegaze one-man band DRAMAMINE “Dearly Beloved” from the upcoming LP “Heights Lake”
  
• Indonesian shoegaze /indie rock band Blonde House “Aster” single [Ear to ear]
• Nizhny Novgorod, Russia dream pop /post-rock /indie /shoegaze band 11:11 “Падение/Fall” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia shoegaze /dream pop duo Rocket Rules “In The Valley” from the debut s/t album Rocket Rules [Shore Dive Records]
• Suffolk, UK-based Los Angeles solo shoegaze artist Yakima “now is forever” from the 2-track single “celestial bodies”
  
• Bandung, Indonesia 5-piece indie rock /shoegaze band Puremoon “All Your Words” from double A-side single “All Your Words / Left Here”
  
• Pittsburgh-based dream-pop /grungegaze /shoegaze solo project (also part of Threaded and Elder Wizard), Strayline “Sport Utility Vehicle” (Cover)
  
• Australian post-punk /shoegaze quartet from Adelaide, DRAINING “you & i” single
  
• Vancouver, BC post-rock /shoegaze /dream-pop trio Bloom Effect “Surreal” off upcoming “oscilón” EP [Kingfisher Bluez]
• Isle of Wight/Brighton, UK indie rock collaboration Coach Party & Black Honey “Disco Dream” single [Chess Club]
• Stockholm, Sweden krautrock /noiserock /free jazz /psychedelic /drone rock collective Kungens Män “Resande i rockmusik” title track of the album “Resande i rockmusik” [echodelickrecords]
• Chicago boogie /psychedelic rock band founded in 2014 by partners Joshua Condon and Eliza Weber, Glyders “Stone Shadow” from the upcoming sophomore LP “Forever” [Drag City]
• Los Angeles new wave /garage rock /punk quartet The Paranoyds “Heather Doubtfire” off the debut album “Carnage Bargain” [Suicide Squeeze Records]
• Amsterdam-based Indonesian funk /psych-folk ensemble Nusantara Beat “Tamat” from the forthcoming LP “Nusantara Beat” [Glitterbeat Records]
• Italian ambient /dark neo-folk /psychedelic folk solo project by lead vocalist, bass and synth player of Ufomammut, Urlo, aka THE MON “Your Eyes” from upcoming LP “Songs Of Abandon”, first part of “Embrace The Abandon”, a two-chapter journey that explores loss and rebirth.
  
• London-based ambient /drone /improvisational /minimalist /dance music /experimental electronics singer-songwriter Feeo “The Hammer Strikes the Bell” from upcoming debut LP “Goodness” [AD 93]
• Nashville-based, Australian Americana /sadcore /indie folk singer-songwriter Emma Swift “How To Be Small” from “The Resurrection Game” [ Tiny Ghost Records ]
• Welland, Ontario-based, Austin, TX-native field recordings /poetry /chamber pop /pastoral folk singer-songwriter Carson McHone “September Song” from the third LP “Pentimento” [Merge Records]
• UK ambient /drone /post-rock /instrumental solo project The Echelon Effect “Fragile Skies”from “Departure” EP
  
• Scotland acoustic fingerstyle guitar /alternative folk guitarist and composer, Raspberry Moths “Empty Nest” title track of the debut album “Empty Nest”