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.

• Thessaloniki, Greece psych /power-pop /60s garage rock six-piece The Sences “Emilia” 2-track 7″ single [Rogue Records]

Even though my never-forgotten Retro 60s Psych-Garage phase is long gone, I never miss the opportunity to investigate the best weekly releases. The young six-piece combo from Thessalonki display once again, after a brilliant debut album, a deep heartfelt fondness for the vintage 60s garage sound, drawn up with equal prowess and imagination, characterized by a distinctive care to detail in the arrangements, where every element is in the right place, crafting a scratchy and electrifying rock ‘n’ roll laced with fuzz; the vocals scrape and soothe, the drums urgently pound and shuffle in a blaze of vigorous raw buzzy guitar riffs and Farfisa organ that swirls and shivers seamlessly, wrapped in sparkling psychedelic flavors, rife with Nazz and The Electric Prunes tones, fully managing to refresh the 60s magic in an ever compelling and captivating way.

• South Australia-based Dream Pop /Shoegaze one-man band of songwriter, guitarist, and producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “The Walls Have Ears” single
  

The prolific, changeable shoegaze-adjacent Aussie one-man project with a transformative, sweeping, and stirringly heartfelt song, as we are used to, which trembles under crispy, sparkling, distorted guitar chords and whirling poignant keyboard glows to waver in ethereal shivering mists and immersive droning swathes around deeply emotional, powerful vocals coming face to face with the wounds of trauma and abandonment.

• Dortmund, Germany Shoegaze duo Dennis Mielke and Oskar Middelhauve, aka Telephonist “Gegen die Wand” title track of the upcoming debut EP
  

We missed at the start of the month the deeply atmospheric and melancholic first endeavour from the newcomer German Shoegaze two-piece Telephonist. The Slowdive-esque “Against the Wall” sways doleful and surreal on a relentless hypnotic downtempo pace, soaked in a haunted, reverb-laced hazy sea of echoing sad guitar melodies, layered with soaring achingly emotional radiant swirls, softly cradling gently drifting wistful vocals, stuck by a decision that can’t be changed.

• Vietnam-born, Portland-based sound collage /spoken word /ambient folk multimedia artist Dao Strom “tender variation iv: [love|object|treason]”
from the album “Tender Revolutions” [Antiquated Future Records/ Beacon Sound / The 3rd Thing]
• Cornwall, UK-based dark ambient /psych /dreampop /folk project of US Midwest-native artist & death doula Emily Cross, aka Cross Record “Bubbleland” from “Everyone’s Stuff Spinning Around and Around” bonus album that accompanied the release of 2025 “CRUSH ME” LP
  
• England folktronica/acoustic folk duo of veteran singer and musician Jo Bartlett (Bluetrain, It’s Jo & Danny, The Yellow Moon Band, and lately Kodiak Island) and guitarist Neil Haydock (of ’90s band Submarine), Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock – “Frozen In Time” from “The River or the Road” E.P. (All songs by Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan)
  
• London-based indie pop singer-songwriter-guitarist and Comet Gain frontman featuring French musician Jérôme Copentipy on guitar, David Christian avec Jérôme Copentipy “Ballad of the French Postman” from “Blankets and Pillows” EP, ninth of the label’s 2025 EP series [Too Good To Be True]
• Dunedin, New Zealand chamber pop /folk singer-songwriter Maxine Funke “Timeless Town” title track of the 6th LP “Timeless Town” [Kashual Plastik]
• New Hampshire dungeon dream pop artist Chainlacing “Nisene” from next year’s debut full-length album [These Hands Melt Records]
• Danish ambient /electronic /experimental pop singer and producer Aria Leth Schütze, aka Alto Aria “Body Knows (feat. Croatian Amor, Dimming)” from the upcoming “Ephemeral” LP [Rhizome]
• Lyon-based cinematic /psychedelic jazz /krautrock trio Ashinoa “Un’altra Forma” title track of the upcoming third LP “Un’altra Forma” [Fuzz Club]
• Los Angeles surf rock /psychedelic pop band Strawflower “Everyone’s Gotta Lose” from “Last Slow Dance” EP
  
• Los Angeles ambient /drone /psych /indie pop trio led by Joseph Stevens, aka Peel Dream Magazine “Venus In Nadir” from upcoming mini album “Taurus” [Topshelf Records]
• Swedish electronic dream pop duo consisting of singer Karolina Komstedt (from the band Poprace) and electronic producer Johan Angergård (Acid House Kings, Poprace and Labrador Records founder) founded in 1995, CLUB 8 “Lazy” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia guitar pop band Pop Filter “Dirt Road Anthem” from the upcoming LP “Trade Place Tape” [Bobo Integral]
• UK acoustic folk punk band from Solihull formed in 1977, The Drain On The Balcony “Take Me Home Tonight” from the 6th studio album “Outsider Art” [Local Underground / Old Bad Habits Label]
• Diest, Belgium Jangly Indie Rock project of guitarist and songwriter Jens Rubens (Ero Guro, Coma Commander), Stoop Kid “In Knot We Trust” [On The Level]
• Dusseldorf-based German Jangle Indie Pop band The Radio Field “What It Takes” from the second album “Air and Sunlight” [Subjangle]
• Leicester, UK indie guitar pop side project of Shopfires‘ Neil Hill, NEUCLOUDS “We’re Not Anything to Anyone” single
  
• Indonesia‘s one-time indie pop solo band project of songwriter Ganesha (The Silent Love), NESHBAND “gadis pembenci kupukupu” from cassette “Dekadensi Cinta” EP (recorded in 2011-2012) [disanorak]
• US long-distance psych /jangle /indie rock-pop duo of Gary Hornseth and Mitch Armbruster, aka Trademark Issues “The Bit” from the 6th album “Glow” [Subjangle]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi C86 /post-punk /twee /indie pop DIY musician & songwriter Zenxith “Sunken Ships” off the 34th single “Sunken Ships” b/w “Arctic Pain”, the 1st single from the upcoming album “What’s Happening To Me?” [Salt Mine Records]
• London-based Creation Records-affiliated early/mid 80s legendary indie guitar pop band The Loft “Got a Job” from the 2-track single “Got a Job / Brand New Love” [Tapete Records]
• Stoke-on-Trent, England four-piece guitar pop band The Science Of Words “Volunteer” from the self-titled debut album “The Science Of Words” [Old Bad Habits Label / Next Phase : Normal Records]
• Athens, Greece-based US DIY lo-fi /indie rock /twee art-pop duo of Rob Beloved & Eleni Binge, aka Beloved Binge “Paper Eagles” single from the upcoming album
  
• Richmond, Virginia indie /shoegaze /dream pop solo project ACITYASLEEP “I Dreamed You Were A Memory” from “The Ghost That Wears You” EP
  
• Canadian indie-rock band from Halifax, Beauts “Heaviness” single off the forthcoming full-length album “Marigolds”
  
• Swedish four-piece indie rock /dream pop purveyors, The Mary Onettes “Without This Body” 4th single from the long-awaited fourth album “SWORN” [Welfare Sounds & Records]
• L.A. college rock /indie-pop mainstays Massage “No North Star” from the upcoming third album “Coaster” [Bobo Integral]
• Athens, GA noise pop /art rock solo project of founder of Primordial Void and keyboardist for rock outfits Chairs and the Rishis, Marcel Sletten “Destined” off the upcoming sixth full-length album “Chinatown Hennessy” [Primordial Void]
• Muscle Shoals, Alabama ambient /indie rock /dream-pop /shoegaze duo Sister Ray Davies “Rowans” 2nd single from upcoming LP “Holy Island” [Sonic Cathedral]
• Birmingham, UK-based shoegaze /post-rock band Our Worlds Collide “I’ll Take This Quiet Life” off of the debut album “The Stranger” [1991 Recordings]
• Berlin-based dream pop /shoegaze /noise rock foursome led by Barcelona‘s Candy Bassas and Sergi Cabanes, Pretty Average “Farewell” off the upcoming debut album “The highs and lows of being Pretty Average” [Ghost Palace Records]
• Vienna, Austria alternative rock /shoegaze band Trauma Glow “Million in one” single
  
• York, UK new wave /shoegaze / shoewave band AIMING “Shit In The ’80s” single
  
• Bath, UK dream rock /shoegaze project of Jenn Zed, aka Zed Point “Dead Drop” in memory of Andrew (Angus) Young
  
• Melbourne-based shoegaze /dream pop duo Tex Keane and Maia Efstathis, CVRNS (Caverns) “Arkitekts” single
  
• Norway shoegaze /dream pop project led by Kamilla Santiago Neeraas, aka Ocean Daze – “The Longing (Death)” single
  
• Barcelona-based electronic /shoegaze /indie duo Slow Connection “Head Diving” single from the upcoming album
  
• Italian dream pop /shoegaze solo project of musician Giulia Cinquetti from Verona (former bass player of You, Nothing, and May Eyes Love) feat. vocals by Nicole Fodritto (Six Impossible Things), Swayglow “Amniotic” single
  
• Eaglehawk, Australia Dream pop /Shoegaze studio-based collaboration between Megumie Alcala & Robbie Adams, aka Superluminal Objects “Blue Heaven” from the s/t debut album “Superluminal Objects”
  
• Nantes, France Shoegaze /Dreampop band led by Jimmy Arfosea, aka An Ocean of Embers “Heterochromy” from “Quartz” EP [Shore Dive Records]
• Lyon, France Indie Rock Shoegaze band Luje “Try Me” single [Gauche Bas Records]
• Nashville, Tennessee electronic /shoegaze /experimental noise pop duo Total Wife “Peaches” from the album “Come Back Down” [Julia’s War Recordings]
• Vienna, Austria Shoegaze project by musicians from the bands Culk, Jansky, Pauls Jets, and Fuzzybrains, aka Alles Exhausted “Genug von Vampiren” off the self-titled mini-album “ALLES EXHAUSTED” [Siluh Records]
• Polish dreamy /grungegaze /shoegaze /sad band from Poznań, Lulu Suicide – “Let me stay dead” single
  
• Denver, Colorado post-rock /shoegaze three-piece A Shoreline Dream “Down With the Upward (feat. Mark Gardener of RIDE)” single
  
• Tampere, Finland dream pop /shoegaze quartet Mumrunner “Wish” from the second LP “Yearning Hearts”
  
• Cork, Ireland five-piece dream pop /shoegaze /alt-rock band, Pebbledash “Tiles & Moss” from the upcoming EP “To Cast the Sea in Concrete”
  
• Seattle veteran psych-gaze band Black Nite Crash “I Think You Should Leave (Not Safe for Radio Version)” new single
  
• Raleigh, North Carolina shoegaze /dream-rock /post-rock trio Gray Young – “Traces” from upcoming V/A “Aspirin Age Volume Five (a shoegaze compilation)” cassette album [Broken Sound Tapes]
• Los Angeles neo-psychedelic /shoegaze four-piece SUN COLONY “Disdain” from “Clandestine Vignette” EP
  
• Toronto, Canada alt rock /dream-pop/shoegaze four-piece Seventh Dose “Yearn” single
  
• Oslo, Norway-based experimental rock /grunge /shoegaze band LOOSER “Stall” single
  
• Seattle, WA-based 5-piece Doomgaze band Bonney Rubble “Another Hour” off of the forthcoming sophomore album
  
• Vancouver, BC-based transnational Post-punk /Dream Pop /Shoegaze trio Bloom Effect “Luna” from the EP “oscilón” [Kingfisher Bluez]
• Austin, TX alt-rock /grunge /indie rock singer-songwriter EVNTYD “Test The Fire” single
  
• Lisbon-based Irish-Portuguese krautrock /psychedelic rock quintet, pôt-pot “Sextape” from the debut LP “Warsaw 480km” [Felte Records]
• Belgium-based psychedelic rock band GROS COEUR “Montréal” from the second LP “Vague Scélérate” [Le Cèpe Records / Jaune Orange Records / Spinda Records/ Stolen Body Records]
• Houston, TX Noisy Garage Psychedelic rock band The Albinos “Bet You Don’t” from “Bet You Don’t / If You Only Knew” split 2-track 7″ single by The Albinos & Fluid Druid [Fatal Blast]
• Lyon-based noise /post-rock /post-punk /psychedelic rock band (ex Deity Guns, Narcophony and Bästard) Zëro “Troubles #2” off the upcoming album “Never Ending Rodeo” [Ici d’Ailleurs]
• Leeds, UK retro-futuristic /soundtrack /experimental electronica /DIY synthpop act (ex-Girl One And The Grease Guns), Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators “Floatin'” (Originally by Vamp, 1968) from the last and final album “Leisure Complex Variations : Part 2” [Next Phase : Normal Records]
• Brighton, UK Glam Rock /Synthpop /Kosmische /Krautrock group from the people behind World of Twist, Earl Brutus and The Dials in association with the British Experimental Rocket Group and Science Monthly, QUATERMASS 3 “Room At The Top” from the debut LP “Quatermass III” [Republic of Music]
• New Orleans-based jangly /post-punk /indie rock duo of Venezuela-native Rui DeMagalhaes and Mac Folger, Lawn “Pressure” from the LP “God Made The Highway” [Exploding In Sound Records]
• Nashville, Tennessee, instrumental surf rock n’ roll band Los Straitjackets “High Wire Act” from “Somos Los Straitjackets” LP [Yep Roc]
• San Francisco ’60s pop /lo-fi folk /garage rock /country soul /doo-wop /tribal /Afro folk, Sonny & The Sunsets “Heavy” from the upcoming LP “The Diving Kind” recorded in Senegal with local musicians [Rocks In Your Head Records]
• Austin, TX-based new wave /garage punk band led by Jeff Burke (The Marked Men, The Reds, The Potential Johns, Lost Balloons), Radioactivity “Time Won’t Bring Me Down” title track of the upcoming LP “Time Won’t Bring Me Down” [Wild Honey Records / Dirtnap Records]
• California punk garage /power pop /rock n’roll band The Reno Casinos “Tormented” from the debut LP “Crash Course in Casinoism” [Art Art Art Records]
• Melbourne bayside 60s garage-beat rockers led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Jay Millar, The Gnomes “I’ll Be There” from the upcoming debut s/t album “The Gnomes” [Dog Meat Records]
• Los Angeles-born, New York-based indie rock artist Scarlet Rae “Call Off The Day” from “No Heavy Goodbyes” EP [Bayonet Records]
• Los Angeles-based dream pop /indie rock project of singer and songwriter, Sophie Negrini, aka Janelane “Instincts” single
  
• Naarm/Melbourne-based indie rock /alt-rockers Sleepazoid “New Age” single [Surreal Sound]
• Queens, NYC space age dream pop solo project dayaway “Rewind” from “Time Machine” EP [Turn to Wind]
• Winnipeg, Canada bedroom pop /indie /dreampop project of Felicia Sekundiak, aka FLOOR CITY “That’s My Love” single
  
• Spain-based Venezuela-born indie pop /dream pop singer-songwriter Maddie Moon “Holy Fire” single
• Winnipeg, Canadian indie dream pop duo sundayclub “Halloween Mask” off the debut EP “Bannatyne” [Paper Bag Records]
• New York wave /electronic /dream pop /synthpop act R. Missing “Supermuted” single