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

• UK lo-fi experimental /dream pop /shoegaze solo project Geneva Drive “Mirroring” single
  

Possibly the most rhythmic and enlivened track so far by the homespun, atmospheric and immersive shoegaze solo project. The looping hypnotic pace of flat knocking drum beats interlocks with supple bassline grooves, to carry floating blissful vocals, in awe of the starry night, through a mirroring of blazing, reeling guitar flourishes, slowly soaring upward toward heaven.

• France-based dream pop /shoegaze collaborative music project started by British musician Andrew Rose in 1984, Callière “Silver (single edit mix)” the full-length mix will be on the forthcoming album “Float”
  

 I have never been too fond of CDs, finding them, unlike the bulkier vinyl, plasticized and impersonal, as well as expensive, at least in the 90s, even if, by avoiding them mostly, I did not disdain the cardboard sleeve limited editions and box sets. It’s a hymn to the CD instead, the immersive and stirring new single from Callière to celebrate his first two purchases, David Sylvian and Cocteau Twins, regarding the former by the way, clearly comes to my mind the annoying rustling vinyl of “Brilliant Trees”, later replaced by the refined CD box set, definitely box-shaped, I cannot help but agree with his rejoicing. Nodding sonically to his treasured signed Slowdive CD, heady elated atmospherics tremble, immersed in gentle swirling layers of tinkling guitar reflections, and slow reverb-drenched swollen-guitar mists while soft nostalgic vocals lift the soul in unison with a dazzling sky-gazing experience.

• Tokyo/San Francisco ambient psychedelic collaboration between Japanese ’90s indie pop sextet led by Masato Saito (Pervenche), and Bay Area musician and composer Michael Ramos (Cindy, Flowertown, April Magazines), The Moment of Nightfall and Tony Jay “kori no mori (Ice Forest)” from upcoming cassette/10″ EP “Winter Dream” via KiliKiliVilla
  

Even though I don’t spend much time on social media, especially on IG, after a while I get a sense of suffocation, I followed with keen interest the rather detailed adventures of the recent tour of our Tony Jay to the East. And as often happens, it’s born, through the naturalness of chance, a collaboration with the local indie stalwarts The Moment of Nightfall, to explore wintry ambient psychedelia influenced by a lot of our favourite bands VU first and foremost. From the first two previews expect hypnotic and minimal layers of rippling reflective sparkling guitars, warm bass pulses and soft lilting percussions, in “Tell Me Why” appears also a vaguely lysergic droning organ, as an eerie reverberant backdrop to soft, dreamy, wistful, layered vocals in a sadly ecstatic and transcendent endless ghostly floating.

• English indie folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bryony Williams “You Are Here” title track of the early 2025 debut album, ”You Are Here”
  
• Bray, Ireland indie folk singer-songwriter Fionn Regan “Farewell” single from next album ‘O AVALANCHE’ via Nettwerk 
  
• Glasgow‘s Trashcan Sinatras indie acoustic folk songwriter and guitarist John Douglas “Lost (band version)” off the four-song EP “Still or Sparkling?” via Reveal Records
  
• Portland, Oregon psych-pop /indie artist Graham Jonson, aka quickly, quickly “From The Morning” (Nick Drake cover, 1972) via Ghostly International
  
• French dream pop /shoegaze band from Nantes, An Ocean Of Embers “How Time Flies (Ethereal Version, Single Edit)” single
  
• La Rochelle, France experimental /shoegaze project HERENOWHƎRE “Whisper” single
  
• Austin, TX ambient /experimental /dream pop /shoegaze solo project of Haley Davidson, aka Dottie “disappearing” first single off the next EP “Midheaven”
  
• Wellington, NZ dream pop trio Womb – “One Is Always Heading” single via Flying Nun Records
  
• Austin, TX dream pop /indie rock duo NIGHT TRAVELER – “Broken Records” title track of the new EP “Broken Records”                                                                                           
• Bristol/Bath, UK-based shoegaze /dreampop band Night Swimming “Warmer” from the EP “No Place To Land”
  
• London-based ethereal /dreampop /psych /experimental /trip-hop /electronic duo Blindsight “Tread Lightly” from the debut s/t album
  
• New York electronic /dream pop /dark wave /synthpop solo project R. Missing “Snow Club International” single
  
• Washington, D.C. dream pop /indie /synthpop duo GLOSSER “Angel Dust” from the upcoming “Angel Dust” (EP)
  
• Tokyo‘s synth “Suburban Pop” duo, CRYSTAL “彼​女​の​オ​ー​ト​バ​イ​、​彼​の​島” off the third album, “In A Cocktail Glass” [FLAU]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina dreamwave /shoewave /vaporwave act Austral “no sé nada” from “de todos los discos rotos” EP via Dreamcorp. Records Inc.
  
• Logroño, Spain indie /synth-pop duo Espanto “Filtros resonantes” from the LP “Rumores”
  
• Russian four-piece dream pop band from Yekaterinburg, mooria “Имя / Name” from the EP  “Иллюзия / Illusion”
  
• New York indie folk rock singer-songwriter Trace Mountains “Hard to Accept” from the LP “Into The Burning Blue” via Lame-O Records
  
• Richmond, Virginia’s four-piece emo /jangly indie pop /alt-country band, Downhaul “Blue Flame” off the album “How To Begin” via Self Aware Records
  
• Portland, OR alt-country /indie folk solo project of former frontman and composer of indie rockers Dog Thieves, Garrett Linck “Coming Around” debut single via Bud Tapes
  
• Perth, Western Australia’s cosmic indie folk band The Bures Band “Green Town” off the sophomore album “Fool Circle” via Love Police Records & Tapes and Echodelick Records
  
• Chicago, IL lo-fi electronic pop project of singer-songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), Advance Base “The Year I Lived in Richmond” from the upcoming LP “Horrible Occurrences” via Run For Cover Records
  
• Knoxville, Tennessee veteran shoegaze /power pop /rock’n’roll /indie rock musician and composer (Superdrag, The Lees of Memory, The Rectangle Shades, Epic Ditch, Astronaut Pushers), John Davis “Please Be My Love” from the LP “JINX” via Lost in Ohio
  
• San Francisco-based shoegaze /dream pop / psychedelic rock band The Asteroid No.4 “Lille” from the twelfth studio album”Several Shapes Of Solar Flares” via Club AC30 / Little Cloud Records
  
• Swanage, Dorset-born funk /psychedelic rock /trip-hop musician and composer Will Dorey (a former member of the band Palace), aka Skinshape “It’s About Time” from the 8th LP “Another Side Of Skinshape” via Lewis Recordings
  
• Melbourne, Australia post-punk /new wave /psych-pop /art rock band Arbes “Full Sight” from the upcoming debut album, “Counterways” via Third Eye Stimuli Records (AUS) and Earth Libraries (USA & EU)
  
• Mid-80s collaboration of Bermondsey, UK singer of South London group The Assets and later neo-psychedelic combo Mood Six with The Direct Hits‘ Colin Swan, Phil Ward “Misfit Girl” (1984) from the V/A collection “The Direct Records Story – Volume 1″ retrospective collection of the ’80s Cassette Tape label run by the cult beat/mod/power pop band The Direct Hits via Kool Kat Musik
  
• London / Manchester, UK retro /indie /folk rock duo formed in 2014, The Room Upstairs “Our Lives Together (In Falling Apart)” new single via Aldora Britain Records
  
• German jangle indie pop musician and composer Wolfgang Buchholz (The Cinema Engines, The No Colour Twins), aka Nero Bates “Warm Nights In Berlin” from the s/t CD compilation to celebrate his 60th Birthday via Bureau Platiruma!!! and Subjangle
  
• Shanghai, Cina indie rock-pop trio 桃子假象 Peach Illusion “有​些​事​搞​砸​也​没​关​系​(​It’s Okay to Mess up)” single
  
• Dublin, Irish lo-fi jangle indie pop band led by Mark Chester, aka Ginnels “Promise To Never” single off forthcoming new album, “The Picturesque” via Tenorio Cotobade
  
• Indonesian dream pop /indie pop band from Bandung, Mountain Moves “Blooming Day” single
  
• Manila, Philippines indie-pop quintet Cinéma Lumière “Moonlight Darling (Carnival Park Cover)” off the extended CD edition plus bonus tracks of last August’s debut album “Wishing It Was Sunday (Extended Edition)” via Subjangle
  
• Californian jangly /power pop singer-songwriter (fka Catwalk), Nic Hessler “Jangling Man” from V/A “Tales of a Kitchen Porter – A Tribute To Cleaners From Venus” LP 12″ a celebration to the brilliant works of DIY troubadour Martin Newell and the everlasting and prolific group Cleaners From Venus, via Dandy Boy Records
  
• Chicago‘s shoegaze /dream pop /jangle indie-pop band led by songwriter Loren Vanderbilt III (former member of Star Tropics), aka Humdrum “Eternal Blue” from the upcoming album “Every Heaven” via Slumberland Records
  
• Portland, OR-based post-punk /power pop /indie pop-rock singer-songwriter Baby Combat “All My Hurt Are Now Just Words” from the collection LP “Pop Is the Noblest Genre”
  
• Paris based indie /garage /jangle /guitar pop band EggS “Head In Flames” from the upcoming second LP “Crafted Achievement” a split release between Howlin Banana Records (FR) and Prefect Records (UK)
  
• London-based 4-piece shoegaze /indie rock band featuring Lan McArdle (Joanna Gruesome, Lanny) and Owen Williams (The Tubs), Ex-Vöid “Swansea” 1st single off upcoming second LP “In Love Again” via Tapete Records
  
• Montreal, Quebec-based psych /folk /garage /indie rock quartet Feeling Figures “Everything Around You” title track of the sophomore album “Everything Around You” a co-release by K Records and Perennialdeath
  
• St Louis, Missouri psych /indie rock /power pop /mutant pop solo studio project (and ensemble live band) of Martin Meyer (Lumpy and the Dumpers, the Wad, Cal and the Calories, Fried E/M), Soup Activist “Skeleton Fight Song” from the new EP “Ambrosia and Linens” via Inscrutable Records
  
• Barcelona-based shoegaze /post-punk /grunge /indie rock solo project Fake Bliss “Fuck The World” final single off the upcoming debut album “Flowers Keep Growing in My Room” 
  
• Liverpool, UK post-rock /shoegaze /indie rock band a Lesser Version “Paith Own” second single from the band’s 3rd album
  
• Sheffield, UK indie /shoegaze /dream pop band, Rehearsed Living “Stay Alone” single
  
• Athens, Greece indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop DIY project Get Violet “Below The Moon” 4th single off the debut EP
  
• London-based shoegaze /dreampop solo project Rainsong “Junk Model” third song from the forthcoming ‘Flotsam’ EP
  
• Los Angeles-based dream pop /indie rock /grunge /shoegaze quartet Starling “Falling Down a Mystery Hillside” from the cassette single collection EP “2324” via Pleasure Tapes
  
• Moscow, Russia noise rock /psych /shoegaze band Dog Silent “Underwater” from the new LP “Voices In My Head”
  
• Düsseldorf, Germany-based dream-pop /indie rock /shoegaze band Attic Ocean “Young Again” the first single of the next EP “Retriever”
  
• Tasmanian dream pop /shoegaze trio Coral Sculpture “Ariel” off the debut two-track 10″ single “Ariel & Close”
  
• Moscow-based 4-piece indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze band Mental Map “Jaded” from debut s/t album
  
• Belgian progressive /psychedelic /dreampop /shoegaze /indie rock quartet fronted by Elena Lacroix, Eosine “UV” from “Liminal” EP via Mayway Records
  
• Buenos Aires-based, Argentinian 4-piece emo /shoegaze /indie rock band Fin del Mundo – “El d​í​a de las fores” from the new studio LP “Hicimos crecer un bosque” via Spinda Records
  
• Taipei, Taiwan four piece dream pop /shoegaze band The Whisperer “Never Forget” single
  
• Paris-based 4-piece shoegaze /noise-pop band Healees “Waterslide” second single from Healees’ debut LP “Coin de l’œil” via Safe Suburban Home Records (UK) and Hidden Bay Records/Indie or Die (FR)
  
• Melbourne, Australia bedroom dreampop /shoegaze duo Rocket Rules “daisy chain” from debut s/t EP
  
• Boonton, NJ 4-piece noisegaze band High. “In A Hole” from upcoming LP “Come Back Down” via Kanine Records
  
• Dublin, Ireland five-piece alt-rock /shoegaze /grunge band Affection to Rent “If We Fall” debut single
  
• Tucson, AZ dreampop /shoegaze project Sunskin “Paradise” from the debut EP “Blinded”
  
• Faenza, Italy nugaze /heavy shoegaze 4-piece Mondaze “Linger” 1st single and title track of the upcoming sophomore LP “Linger” via Bronson Recordings / La Zona d’Ombra
  
• Chicago, IL dream pop noise pop /shoegaze band Sunshy “Idontgetit” last single off the upcoming debut LP “Don’t care what comes next” via MakeOutMusic Records and Longinus Recordings (tape)
  
• Pittsburgh, PA alt-rock /grungegaze /shoegaze band Strayline. “Flesh feat. Tyler McGuire” from 2-track single “Effect”
  
• Portland, OR psych /post-punk /shoegaze band Ten Million Lights “Release Valve” single
  
• Richmond, Virginia alt-rock /noise /shoegaze band Canaries “Headlight” from the debut “Canaries Demo” EP
  
• UK alt-rock /emo /grunge /shoegaze band, Blanket “Blur” single
  
• Baltimore/Philadelphia alternative rock /grunge band Puddled “Smn Good” from debut cassette s/t EP via Crafted Sound
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah 4-piece indie rock /Midwest emo band Pictures Can Tell “The Best To Bring Me Down” from the CD EP “Everyday”
  
• Seattle, Washington Garage Punk /Rock and Roll band (FKA LYSOL), Fan Club “Fan Club Army” from the EP “Another Demonstration 2024”
  
• German indie rock /noise /grunge-pop band led by singer and songwriter Anna Olivia Böke, aka SLOE NOON “HMIMD” single on Dalliance Records
  
• Vienna-based musician-artist Sofie Royer “Young​-​Girl (Illusion)” from the upcoming first LP “Young​-​Girl Forever” [Stones Throw]
• Miami-based Colombian-born dark ambient /abstract /drone /experimental pop artist Mónica Mesa (aka Za Za), aka Doris Dana “oceanic symmetry ft. VOICE ACTOR” from the cassette album “Reveries” [Somewhere Press]
• Leeds/Cardiff British experimental instrumental folk duo Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts “Chasing Light” title track of the upcoming album “Chasing Light”
  
• Swedish ambient /soundscapes /electroacoustic /field recordings /ambient folk duo Johan Kisro & Linus Johansson, aka Old Amica “Tiden far” from the cassette album “F​ö​r alltid” [DRONARIVM / Le Mont Analogue]
• Swedish ambient /soundscapes /electroacoustic /field recordings /ambient folk duo Johan Kisro & Linus Johansson, aka Old Amica “Mot Natten” from the cassette album “F​ö​r alltid” [DRONARIVM / Le Mont Analogue]