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

• Atlanta, GA ambient /shoegaze /dreampop /dark wave multi-instrumentalist Brent Collins, Slo Moon “I Want You” single
  

The new single by the Atlanta‘s musician explores the lights and shadows cast by Shoegaze, Dark Wave and Dream Pop sound patterns, that blur in an immersive, ghostly and goth-soaked dimension, fueled by a mechanical pulsating and rumbling electronic heartbeat, in which echoing whirls of desolate synths and dire sparkling guitar melodies, achingly sway around lost, haunted vocals, emotionally holding on to love in the darkness

• UK psych /indie rock band formed in 1999, led by Jason Pegg, Clearlake “One Of A Kind” (originally written in 2008) from the upcoming unreleased remastered 4th LP “Dark Blue”
  

I came across Jason Pegg’s name recently, although I didn’t immediately connect it with the Brighton-based Clearlake he fronted since 1999. The quartet has made a name for themselves with three acclaimed albums between 2001 and 2006 via Domino Recording Co., which I still carefully own, replete with both dreamy and noisy vibrant guitar rock streaked with vivid shoegaze, psychedelic, and Britpop facets, seamlessly showcasing a nuanced, refined songwriting with a distinctive melodic flair and stirring lyrics. The band suddenly split up, leaving behind a final, unfinished album called “Dark Blue”, finally on the verge of being released, teased by the third Kinks-inflected excerpt originally written in 2008, that wanders through wander with a swaggering array of groovy chugging, abrasive riffs with expressive vocal charm, convincing someone someone who is having a hard time that “You’re One of a Kind.”

• Marseille, French bedroom pop /c86 /synth-pop /jangle /indie pop DIY solo project of Olivier Boutry (also part of Tales Of The Moon), Few Border “Old Fashioned” from “The Fire Within” EP
  

New bright in every respect, four-tracker for the French one-man indie-pop project chock-full of his distinctive, equally chilly yet emotional guitar embroidery, that opens and closes in urgent up-tempo fashion, noteworthy the almost anthemic inspirational closer “Find Someone.” “Old Fashioned” instead rolls and stumbles under a crackling and sparkling sun-dazzled canopy, woven by weeping, jangling guitar melancholy, while wistful, slightly anxious, sentimental male vocals dream of living a retro lifestyle with a loved one, amidst the comfort of poignant, brassy blows.

• UK ambient /ethereal /dreampop /haunting /psychedelic musician and composer Jodie Lowther “Petrichor” from the forthcoming album “Moonmaskas” EP [The Cat Collects]
• Barcelona-based ambient /drone /trip-hop /downtempo /dream pop /experimental pop project of Iraqi-born, Tasmania-raised musician and Paralaxe Editions label head Dania Shihab, AKA Dania “Heart Shaped Burn” from the album “Listless” [Somewhere Press]
• UK ambient /cinematic /electronic pop artist and producer Cate Francesca Brooks, aka c8xx “Empowered Woman” single
  
• Tokyo, Japan ambient pop /shoegaze /indie folk /dream pop singer-songwriter Marina Yozora “Touché” single
  
• Seattle ambient /minimal acoustic folk singer-songwriter Tiny Vipers “Mary Pilgrim Inn” from the upcoming album “Tormentor”
  
• Nantes, France minimal electronic /twee pop /post-folk project of Chloé Prioux and François Beaugendre (both members of post-punk band  Moleskine), Vérité Synthétique “Denise” from the first LP “Late, It’s Raining!” [Mostly Interrupted / La Fuite / Safe In The Rain Records]
• Antwerp, Belgium lo-fi experimental wave /art pop /post-punk solo project by Jan Tromp, Burger Service – “Oude Stad” from the cassette album “Hart Voor De Zaak” [RDSR]
• Leipzig-based Dream Pop /Psychedelic Rock /Dark Pop /New Wave band Twins in Colour “Hospital Pt. 96” from the debut “We´ve Been To The Future” LP [All my ghosts]
• Chicago-based ethereal /cinematic /electronic /dream pop trio Facing “Please” the first single from Facing’s upcoming debut LP “Temporary Bodies” [No Gold November]
• Melbourne, Australia jangle /indie folk /guitar pop group led by Wagga Wagga-born musician Liam “Snowy” Halliwell (The Ocean Party, Popfilter), Snowy Band “Shortchanged” first single from the upcoming third LP “The Apartment” [Blossom Rot Records]
• San Francisco-based DIY indie /dream pop /sad pop band led by veteran musician Glenn Donaldson, The Reds, Pinks & Purples “Trouble Don’t Last (Geary ver)” from 2-track single “Just Keep Swinging”
  
• Scottish jangle indie pop band Bubblegum Lemonade – “Not Going back” title track off of the new EP, first single from the forthcoming album “To Surf With Love” [Matinée Recordings]
• Rennes dream-pop /indie pop five piece Born Idiot “Schizophrenia” from the second LP “Infinite Life Trauma” [Monomaniac Records (FR) / Fogwood Records (USA)]
• Balikpapan-based, Indonesia indie pop solo project by Lystiadi Bisma, aka The Grimmer Club “Mengelilingi Kota” from “The Grimmer Club!” single [A Single Kiss!]
• Indonesian twee /indie pop singer-songwriter Ebbie, Jennifer – “Plastic Hope”, second single off the upcoming LP [untune records]
• Kent, UK-based Indie Rock /Psychedelic Pop project formed by Ian Button (formerly guitarist with Death In Vegas, Thrashing Doves, and 1/2 of The Penrose Web), Papernut Cambridge “I’ve Loved You The Longest” from the cassette album “Tape Session” LP (recorded live to 16-track as part of producer/engineer Shuta Shinoda’s ‘Tape Sessions’ series) [Gare du Nord Records]
• Jakarta, Indonesia punk /twee /indie pop band AGGI “A rapid bullet shot from a duck” from “The Raw Veggies and A Well-Cooked Disappointment” EP [disanorak]
• Jakarta-based, Indonesian bedroom indie guitar pop act led by Addil Anara (also the bassist of Padang indiepop outfit Frys), The Interpretation Cultures – “All the Laws Homie!” from “The Interpretation Cultures / Electroniks Night – split” single [A Single Kiss!]
• Barnsley, UK dream pop /indie rock band Weedipus “Keep On Guessing” first single from the debut LP
  
• Brussels, Belgium lo-fi /slacker /indie rock /jangle pop five-piece band Capsuna “Celluloid Saturday” from the LP “Can’t versus can’t”
  
• Stockholm-based jangle pop /dream pop /synthpop trio, Red Sleeping Beauty “I Don’t Know What To Say” (previously unreleased) from “Summertime” EP, in anticipation of the upcoming double CD compilation “Pop Songs” (1992-1996) [Matinée Recordings]
• Leicester, England-based ambient /shoegaze /indie pop /dream pop group, Dayflower “Satellite Underground” from the second album “Comfort” [Sunday Records]
• Brighton, UK jangly indie-noise-pop duo Dreamcoaster “Hello My Darling” from the third LP “Imaginary Reflections” [Duck Race Recording Co. / Shelflife Records]
• London experimental krautrock/shoegaze /psychedelic rock band The Early Years “The River” single [Sonic Cathedral]
• Los Angeles ambient /electronic /cosmic folk /psych /indiepop trio led by songwriter Joseph Stevens, aka Peel Dream Magazine “The Band From Northampton” from the mini album “Taurus” [Topshelf 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 “Hallway” from the debut album “Baby Did This” [Meritorio Records]
• Cardiff, UK based slowcore /wave /post-disco /art rock outfit Why Horses? “Far Away So Close” from upcoming LP “Yeah, Hi?”
  
• Somerville, MA jangle guitar pop outfit Strange Passage “Golden Rule” from the second album “A Folded Sky” [Meritorio Records]
• Long Beach, CA dream pop /indie rock quartet Sweet Nobody “I Don’t Know When I’ll See You Again” 2nd single from the upcoming LP “Driving off to Nowhere” [Repeating Cloud Records]
• Spanish shoegaze /noise pop /jangle pop /dream pop band from the Barcelona coast, Últim Cavall “Abans de Marxar (directe des de La Fàbrica Lliure)” live version from the documentary and EP “Last Cavall, 10 years of a refugee” directed by Ferran Vilanova [Discos de Kirlian]
• Toledo, OH alternative /dream pop /grunge /indie rock /shoegaze trio MEZMER “Eternal Bloom” single from the upcoming debut LP “Melodrama”
  
• Toronto, Ontario lo-fi /post-rock /dreampop /shoegaze solo project of musician Charlie Berger (With Hidden Noise, Tonemirror, Dormer, Slow Planet), Slowly “Small Hours” from the LP “North Shore” [Lossleader Records ]
• Colorado dream pop /shoegaze duo Warper “Shapes in the Low Light” from the debut LP “Something, Sometime” [Candlepin Records]
• Albacete, Central Spain 4-piece shoegaze /indie rock /noise pop band Pálida Tez “Mejor al revés” final single from the upcoming debut LP, “Un extraño estado de ánimo” [El Genio Equivocado]
• New Orleans alternative /dreampop /noise pop /shoegaze band, Glish “murmr” single
  
• Toronto-based alt-rock /nowave /shoegaze band fronted by artist Michelle K, AloneKitty “Stay The Same” first single from the album “sad not sad”
  
• Los Angeles ethereal /shoegaze /psych /dream-pop side-project of UK musician and producer Jake Lee (aka Sidewalks and Skeletons) & singer Jacqueline Torgerson (CASHFORGOLD), aka Soft Siren “California Heatwave” single
  
• Brisbane, Australia alternative /dream pop /shoegaze brother duo Ethan and Jeremy Clark, aka Beige Walls and No Roof “I Know You’re The Master” from “Dual Liquid Hands” LP [Shore Dive Records]
• Dortmund, Germany Shoegaze duo Dennis Mielke and Oskar Middelhauve, aka Telephonist “Kalter Beton” off the upcoming debut EP “Gegen die Wand” [Porcupine Records]
• Los Angeles-based shoegaze /indie rock band Diffident Daffodils “Candy” single
  
• Madrid dream pop /shoegaze band DHARMACIDE “Dove” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based 3-piece indie rock /shoegaze band, Phantom Wave “Echoes Unknown” third single from the upcoming album via Shore Dive Records
  
• Philadelphia, PA ambient /dream pop /shoegaze one-man band Dramamine “Signs” from “Heights Lake” LP
  
• Barcelona, Spain psychedelic /noise pop /shoegaze trio The Lions Constellation “If You” from the upcoming sophomore album “A New Moon Rising”[Too Good To Be True / Shelflife Records / Make-Me-Happy Records]
• Brazil shoegaze /dream-pop duo Lwna “Carving Shapes” from the second album “Injuries”
  
• Terre Haute, Indiana dream pop /grunge /shoegaze band Sleep Keeper “Crawl” single
  
• Sydney-based 6-piece indie /psych /shoegaze band, Trillion “Night City” from upcoming debut LP “Feel Alright”
  
• Brisbane, Australia shoegaze /post-punk trio Total Commander “Zero” second single
  
• Oakland, CA indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze four-piece led by Chris Natividad (Marbled Eye, Public Interest, and Aluminum), aka Blue Zero “Confusion” from 4-track cassette EP “CONFUSION”
  
• San Francisco 60s/70s-inspired folk /psychedelic /progressive rock five-piece (members of The Umbrellas, Healing Potpourri, Almond Joy, Whitney’s Playland, and Blades of Joy), Magic Fig “Valerian Tea” from the upcoming debut LP “Valerian Tea” [Exploding In Sound]
• London-based country-psych-cosmic folk quartet The Hanging Stars “Sister Of The Sun” single and first taste of the band’s collaboration with longtime pal Gerry Love (Teenage Fanclub/Lightships) on production duties [Loose Music]
• UK improvising acid /psych-folk ensemble from North-East London, Trimdon Grange Explosion “World Turning Round” from the second album “Dreams Buried Under the Sea”
  
• Hungarian Instrumental /Ambient /Chillout /Psychedelic Rock band Diablo in Alpujarras “Colillas” from the s/t LP “Diablo in Alpujarras” [Psychedelic Source Records]
• Adelaide, Australia 3-piece Synth /Drone /Cosmic Fuzz / Psychedelic Rock trio Night Rites “Dragonfly” (bonus track) from the debut LP “Nine of Swords” [Little Cloud Records / Cardinal Fuzz Records / Night Rites]
• Minas Gerais, Brazil psychedelic rock band White Canyon & The 5th Dimension “Howling Pines” from “At Psych Fest Sao Paulo 2025” live LP
  
• Atlanta, Georgia garage rock trio The Coathangers “Hurry – Demo” from “Hurry” b/w “Drifter” 7″ single [Suicide Squeeze Records]
• Athens, Greece Surf-Garage Psych band, Coral Fuzz “You’re so High” 2-track 7″ single [Sunnyboy66 Records]
• Philly‘s Fuzz Garage Punk “brown-hole soul” combo The Out-Sect “Hopped Up” from “Primitive Sound” LP
  
• Boston, MA ambient /trance /dub /cold wave /EDM /dream-pop /electro-pop trio Violet Nox “Whisper” from “Silvae” [Somewherecold Records]
• Brooklyn, NY indie folk/rock artist Sara Devoe “On Death and Dying!” single
  
• English acoustic folk singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams “Sea of Shadows” from the 15th “Mystery Park” album [One Little Independent Records]
• Nashville-born acoustic indie folk singer-songwriter Maisy Owen “My Youth is All for You (stereo)” single [Tompkins Square]
• Port Chalmers, NZ-born, UK-based folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Nadia Reid “Poor Mum (Molly Drake cover)” single [Chrysalis Records / Slow Time Records]
• Brighton, UK based 4-piece folk punk band The New Eves “Whale Station” from the new single “Red Brick / Whale Station” [Transgressive]
• Aberdeen/Montrose, Scottish ambient electronic /experimental instrumental folktronica duo Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw “Joie De Vivre” from the album “This Was Tomorrow” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Athens, GA ambient /experimental /electronica /noise pop /art rock solo project of the founder of Primordial Void label and keyboardist for rock outfits Chairs and the Rishis, Marcel Sletten “Mare” from the LP “Chinatown Hennessy” [Primordial Void]