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

• Portland, OR shoegaze /indie /dream pop duo songwriter Spen Oliver and Lillian Christopher, Found Space “Nostalgia” single
  

Many over the week have pointed out the Portland duo’s captivating new single to me, which will surely have gotten the attention it deserves by now. Hypnotic and immersive, suffused with an enveloping, subtly psychedelic Stone Roses-like groove that throbs loosely on sinuous shuffling percussions, warm, deep bass lines, and distorted, rustling vortices of electro-acoustic guitars and lustrous keyboards, to crash and resonate over smooth, airy, elated vocals, streaming with high-droning stutters, wishing for new experiences, rather than longing for the same old happenings.

• Brisbane/Meanjin-based dreampop /shoegaze outfit Ultra Material – “Supine” from V/A “Gazed and Bemused: Hazy Sounds from the Meanjin Underground” vinyl 12″ LP compilation [4000 Records]

As proof of a vibrant local scene rich with bands dedicated to Shoegaze-adjacent sounds, the Meanjin (Brisbane) independent artist-led record label 4000 Records showcases a stunning kaleidoscopic 12-track compilation of well-known and lesser-known groups, all to be enjoyed in a variegated and fascinating cross-section of the many facets of the noisy and melodious, reverb-drenched “Beautiful Sound.” I underlined the mesmerizing noisy/dreamy delivery from Ultra Material ’cause they’d been missing for a long while; still, every group is absolutely worthy of mention, and what sets it all apart from most collections is the fact that every track is absolutely previously unreleased and not a superfluous leftover, which isn’t often the case, in addition to being adorned with a tasty limited-edition colored vinyl. Heartily recommended!

• Chicago doomgaze /nugaze /grungegaze duo NIGHT GLARE “Thousand Eyes” debut single
  

Brand new project from Chicago, whose debut single, unlike the grungegaze / heavy shoegaze tags, wallows in a sad and bare atmospheric expanse, cloaked in contemplative and nostalgic plaintive tones, of subtly distorted shimmery guitar textures and searing leads, to surround soft heavy male vocals, achily drowning in a dying mist-strewn sea of lost dreams.

• Leicestershire, UK-based ambient /electronica /post-rock solo project of Jon Attwood (1/2 of Jarr), aka Yellow6 “The Frozen Trees” from the new album “Searching For Your Perfect” ltd. double CDr [Sound In Silence]
• Japanese ambient /experimental /electronica /folk musician, songwriter and traveller Satomimagae “Kabi” from the LP “Saba” [RVNG Intl.]
• Brussels-based ambient /wave /improvisational /electronic /folk musician and composer Roman Hiele, aka Hiele “No Further North (feat. Clodagh Kinsella)” from upcoming LP “Emo Inhaler” [STROOM.tv]
• Turkish ambient /electronic /experimental pop singer-producer Pervin Güzeldere, aka Okay Vivian “No Measure” from upcoming LP “In My Canine Memory” [xquisite releases]
• New York-based ambient /ethereal /acoustic /indie folk artist Helen Ballentine, aka Skullcrusher “Maelstrom” off the sophomore album “And Your Song is Like a Circle” [Dirty Hit]
• UK electroacoustic /folktronica / indie folk group formed in the early 2000s, Tunng “Anoraks” single [Full Time Hobby]
• Essex-based DIY outsider-folk rock collective founded by Steven Collins, The Owl Service “Goodbye Horses (vocal)” (William Garvey, originally recorded by Q Lazzarus) single
  
• Southend-on-Sea, England lo-fi indie ‘folk for ages’ singer-songwriter Fran Carlyon “Living Your Last Chance” single
  
• Bedford, UK indie rock solo project of Jon Behrendt, aka Last Days of Rome “Last Days Of Rome (Acoustic)” from the acoustic EP “The Things We’ll Leave Behind”
  
• Atlanta, Georgia bedroom pop /shoegaze /dreamwave /indie band Kid Fears “Time In The Dark” (Single) [Tiny Engines]
• Brooklyn, NY lo-fi jangle /indie pop one-girl solo project Betty Brite “Cold Sweat” from “Quikwash” EP
  
• Glasgow, Scottish pop-punk /indie band formed in 1994, Lung Leg – “Girls (feat. Lora Logic)” from “Second City Static 004” split single by Lung Leg & Unmarry Me [Errol’s Hot Wax / Watts Of Goodwill]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Dancing Skeleton” 3rd & final single from the new upcoming album “What’s Happening To Me?” [Salt Mine Records]
• Bologna, Italy dark /cine-delic /shoegaze /kraut /psychedelic rock trio Bebaloncar “Not For Sale” from the album “Love to Death” third and final chapter in Bebaloncar’s emotional trilogy [Silverdrop Recordings]
• Cincinnati, OH lo-fi /indie rock /psychedelic /folk solo project of musician and composer (The Drin, Crime Of Passing, Mardou, The Serfs, Vacation), D. McCartney “Turn the Triptych” from “For Those Not Here” EP
  
• UK crank wave /indie rock band formed in Leicester, originally active from c. 1992, Prolapse “Swearing For Decoration” single [Tapete Records]
• English indie band formed in 1989, Milltown Brothers “Hilo – Live at Mercury Climbing 2025”
  
• Liverpool alternative rock /indie pop band The Boo Radleys “Solarcide” (Single) from the upcoming 9th LP
  
• One of the several short-lived studio Beatlesque chamber pop psych spin-offs (Col. Truck, Jade & Pepper) of Singapore psych-pop wonders The October Cherries, Truck “This Is Our Love Song” from the remastered 1974 album “Surprise! Surprise!” [Guerssen Records]
• Melbourne 60s psych /jangle indie pop-rock artist Maxine Gillon “Doctor Glas” from the debut LP “Girl Songs”
  
• Richmond, Virginia jangle indie /guitar pop band led by The Silent Boys vocalist/rhythm guitarist, Wallace Dietz, The Melody Chamber “One Plus One” from the first self-titled album [Too Good To Be True (EU) /Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records (US)]
• Oklahoma City indie bedroom pop /dream pop solo project Ford Chastain “For You” single
  
• Derbyshire, UK DIY twee /jangle /indie pop trio The Happy Somethings “Pretty Pathetic Love Song” from “EL ELU KU” EP
  
• San Francisco power pop band led by Jeff Shelton, The Well Wishers “littleorangemagaman” single
  
• Portland, OR-based indie rock /power pop band Mo Troper “The Best Seat In The House” from double A-Side 7″ single “The Best Seat In The House” b/w “When She Says My Name”
  
• Washington, D.C. indie rock /garage-punk-pop singer-songwriter Elisabeth Nelson, aka The Paranoid Style “It’s A Dog’s Breakfast (for LR)” off the upcoming new LP “Known Associates” [Bar/None Records]
• Boston, MA power pop /indie rock band founded in 1986, led by Evan Dando, The Lemonheads “Deep End” from the new studio album “Love Chant” [Fire Archive]
• Nashville, TN-based dream pop /indie rock band fronted by Jordan Victoria, HEAVEN HONEY “Shimmer” new single
  
• German noise /grunge-pop /indie rock band led by singer and songwriter Anna Olivia Böke, aka SLOE NOON “Youthless, Useless” single [Dalliance Records]
• Manila, Philippines 3-piece indie rock band We Are Imaginary “Object of My Affliction”, third single from the fifth album
  
• Melbourne electronic pop /indie rock singer-songwriter, ctrl + me “Deep (love)” third single
  
• UK indie rock /grunge pop duo CIEL “Thinking Of You” from the debut LP “Call Me Silent”
  
• Madrid-based indie /dream-pop artist, April June “lost highway” from “afterparty” EP
  
• Salerno, Italy electronic /shoegaze /jangly /dream-pop singer-songwriter Gianmario Galano, aka I’m the Villain “The odd ghost song” from the album “This joyful nostalgia” LP
  
• L.A. psych /dream pop band led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez, Cigarettes After Sex “The Crystal Ship” (The Doors cover) from the 2-track single “Anna Karenina” [Partisan Records]
• Dundalk, Ireland trip-hop /dream-pop /post-punk /shoegaze /experimental rock 5-piece band Just Mustard “DANDELION” from the third LP “WE WERE JUST HERE” [Partisan Records]
• Montreal, Quebec dark wave /indie rock /avant pop musical project of singer-keyboardist Adèle Trottier-Rivard and guitarist Nicolas Basque, Bibi Club “Amaro” title track from the upcoming third album “Amaro” [Secret City Records]
• Cork, Ireland 5-piece shoegaze alt-rock band, Pebbledash “O The Wind” from upcoming sophomore EP “To Cast The Sea In Concrete” [Blowtorch Records]
• French Shoegaze/ Indie Pop project of Maud Platiau Bourret, MAUD ANYWAYS “The Pain Inside” from the second LP “Echoes Of Encounters” [1991 Recordings]
• Los Angeles based alternative /dream pop /trip-hop band 16 Underground “Chasing a Comfort” from the upcoming debut “Drifting Deeper” EP [Sunday Drive Records]
• Carrboro, NC noise rock /shoegaze /dream-pop /experimental group Verity Den “vacant lot” from the second album “wet glass” [Amish Records / Required Wreckers]
• Leeds, UK-based California-born dreampop /psych /shoegaze solo artist Hazelene “Something Positive” second single
  
• Barcelona, Spain shoegaze /psychedelic noise band The Lions Constellation “Human Skills” second single from the upcoming LP “New Moon Rising” [Too Good To Be True (FR) / Shelflife Records (US) / Make-Me-Happy Records (GR)]
• Atlanta, GA ambient /shoegaze /dark wave /dreampop  music project of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Brent Collins, Slo Moon “Lucky Eyes” single
  
• Antonio, TX Noise Rock/ Shoegaze band HAPPYVOID “Soft Focus”
  Austin, TX 4-piece indie /dreampop band Keepsake “Yearning” single
  
• Toronto-based alt-rock /noise /shoegaze band fronted by guitarist/singer Michelle K, aka  AloneKitty “Not Painless Or Easy” from “sad not sad” LP
  
• Los Angeles-based indie rock /shoegaze band Diffident Daffodils “Sympathy for the Martyr” single
  
• Albacete, Central Spain 4-piece shoegaze /indie rock /noise pop band Pálida Tez “Dibujo animado” from the debut LP “Un extraño estado de ánimo” [El Genio Equivocado]
• Lyon FR Indie Rock /Shoegaze band Luje “Yeah” from upcoming LP “Among The Firs” [Gauche Bas Records]
• Vienna, Virginia alt rock /shoegaze band Bellweather “LONER-L12″ from “hurtling towards” EP
  
• Paris-based shoegaze /noise-pop quartet Healees “Forest Fire” (demo)
  
• Dublin, Ireland psych /post shoegaze band Sun Mahshene “Life Is Joy” single
  
• Paris, France space rock /indie rock /shoegaze trio SUBZERO FUN “Space Drone 4″ from the debut LP “Ten More Years” LP [Rave Down Records]
• Nashville, TN 3-piece shoegaze /alternative rock band Cold Equations “Satellite” single
  
• Jacksonville, FL alternative rock /emo /grunge shoegaze band Leaving Time “Loop” off the 2-track single “Loop / Live Beneath” [Sunday Drive Records]
• Hong Kong cold wave /post-punk /darkgaze group The Crush “Urchin” from the upcoming “Samhain” EP
  
• Edinburgh-based 4-piece noise indie guitar rockers SHINLIFTER “Close Encounters” from debut “Other Conspiracies” EP
  
• Galway, Ireland garage rock /psych /punk five-piece Puck “Caricature” single [Blowtorch Records]
• Boston, MA-based veteran shoegaze /psychedelic /garage rock band Terrapin Gun “Queasy” from “Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions” LP [Infinite Spin Records]
• North Branford, Connecticut experimental instrumental psychedelic rock duo Spiral Wave Nomads “I Am Here” from the new LP “The Weightless Sea” [Twin Lakes Records / Cardinal Fuzz (UK) / Feeding Tube Records]
• Mid-80s Swedish legendary fuzz garage-rock band (later The Wylde Mammoths and The Stomach Mouths), Crimson Shadows “When I’m Going Away” off the reissue of the debut 1985 7″ single “When I’m Going Away / What I Want” [Rogue Records]
• North London world /jazz /tropicalia collective formed in 1994 by multi-instrumentalist Christian Franck and DJ Patrick Forge, Da Lata “The Lonely City” from the 5th “Edge of Blue” LP [DLM]
• Brooklyn, NY-based, jazz /bossanova /folk /indie singer-songwriter Mei Semones “Get used to it” from 7″ single “Kurayami/Get used to it” [Bayonet Records]
• Birmingham, UK indie /alt country six-piece Independent Country “Danger! High Voltage” from “The Rat” EP
  
• Dublin, Irish alt-country /blues /folk musician (aka Calico Jak), Eoin Mac Ionmhain “Spilt Milk (feat. Miriam Ingram)” from the forthcoming collection “Blues for the ravelled sleeve”
  
• Brazilian lo-fi /ambient /pastoral /minimal /guitar loops /post-rock /folk project of guitarist Bruno Nunes Coelho (from the band Constantina), aka El Conejo “Rio Seco” from the debut s/t album “El Conejo” [La Petite Chambre Records]