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

• Moscow, Russia psych-pop/dream-pop 4-piece Kosmos Na Potolke (Космос На Потолке) “Вдалеке” new single                                                                                                                                                                     

Endearing dream pop from Moscow with enticing, equal part excited and fearful, dreamy female vocal harmonies spinning lost in a dizzying array of tense confusion and disorienting subtle anxiety, amid reverb-infused sparkling guitar melodies and cold bass palpitations euphoric yet dull comfort.

• Denver, Co goth shoegaze trio formed in 2001, DORMITION “Ruts” from debut “Untitled” EP
  

Mysterious band from Denver with a dark, deeply sensual and bewitching, hallucinated nightly ballad, steeped in subdued melancholy and unease, in the vein of the most bleeding and surreal Mazzy Star, filled with hypnotic and nocturnal moods that ebb and flow in nostalgic, moody immersed sonic expansions between rattling, brittle guitar twangs and rambling bass line pulses around alluringly gentle, sad female vocals left repeating ‘if you want to’, whilst excruciating 6-string mourns tear the dense impending darkness.

• Chicago, Illinois noise-rock/shoegaze/indie rock duo STALLED “Off Kilter” off debut 2-track single “Governor’s Dodge”
  

Brand new duo from Chicago with a promising mix of 90s guitar rock and shoegaze with sharp 6-string tones with a distorted edge that remind me late period DIIV; the flip side stirs up groovy sparkling guitar riffs that seethingly sway, while slowly increasing, in obsessive intensity before bursting at the seams, releasing into a both vulnerable, yet powerful at the same time distorted abrasive and jagged tapestry over muted angry male vocals unleashing sarcastic disillusionment into the isolated melodramatic chaos.

• Montreal, Québec dream pop/indie rock singer/songwriter HELENA DELAND “Truth Nugget” from the new album “Someone New” on Luminelle
  
• Brighton, UK bedroom/dream pop artist YOUTH “Insomnia” new single
  
• Austin, TX-based Indie/Dream/Noise/Twee/Jangle trio lead by Mike Lee (Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Fanclub), FAMILY MART “Starlite” new single
  
• Austin, TX based indie rock/dream pop project of Caleb Chial, SWIM TEAM “So Slow” new single
  
• Birmingham, UK bedroom pop/electronic/psych-pop/dream pop artist Patrick Murphy, aka SUPINE “Change” from the album “Eight Songs As Time Stamps”
  
• Laredo, TX lo-fi/indie rock/shoegaze band, Creature In The Spiral [CITS] “Stormy” from the mini-album “The rain never stops”
  
• Victoria, Canada shoegaze /psych rock/dream pop 3-piece DID YOU DIE “Fate Always” from upcoming “Seal My Fate” 2-track single
  
• Rochester, Minnesota dreampop duo VANSIRE “The Latter Teens” from the new album “After Fillmore County” on Spirit Goth
  
• Buffalo, NY alt/grunge/noise rock/shoegaze 4-piece PREVIOUS LOVE “Retrograde”
  
• California bedroom/synthpop/shoegaze/dream pop solo project THE FORBIN PROJECT “Never Know” off “Nobody Knows You (Bonus tracks)” EP
  
• Australian indie rock trio from Sidney, SWIRL “Change” (previously released on a seven-inch single with Lemon magazine in 1993) on Half A Cow Records
  
• Milwaukee-based dream pop/shoegaze band Brief Candles “Tape Deck” single from forthcoming LP on Somewherecold Records
  
• Athens, Greece shoegaze/indie rock duo YOUTH VALLEY “Young Sad Lovers” from the debut “Youth Valley” EP
  
• Brooklyn relocated to Oakland guitar rock trio ABSENT CITY “Solid Ground” off debut LP, “Continue Normal Living” via Homing Instinct Records
  
• Arkhangelsk, Russia sovietwave/new wave/retrowave/post-punk duo ЭЛЕКТРОЦОЙ [Electrotsoy] ‘Vechno” from V/A “Russian Tour 5” cassette compilation on Belka Records
  
• Clare, Australia jangle/dream pop solo project ENGLISH SUMMER “Settle Here With Me” new single
  
• Kansas City Post-Punk/Dreampop/Darkwave/Shoegaze quartet Emmaline Twist “Desperate Measures” from “DISSIMULATION” LP on Shifting Sounds
  
• Seattle, WA bedroom/surf pop/indie pop/shoegaze/dream pop duo BEACH VACATION “Our Night Is Falling” from the upcoming cassette debut album “I Fell Apart” on Z Tapes
  
• Riverside, Ca bedroom pop/dream pop/shoegaze solo project of Daniel Romero, Dream Suicides – “Razorblades” from the new cassette album “Reflections of Ourselves In Scars Within Others”
  
• Moscow experimental/shoegaze duo Krasochnobledno ‘Зависть/Envy’ from upcoming cassette debut album ‘Все Хорошо?/Things are good?’
  
• Southern California based dream pop/indie-pop duo of Gretchen DeVault and Ken Aki, Hero No Hero “Say No More” from S/T debut EP
  
• California‘s lo-fi jangle dreampop solo project of Josh Hwang (Jaded Juice Riders), CASTLEBEAT ”Shoulder (ft. Sonia Gadhia)” from the new album “Melodrama” on Spirit Goth
  
• Indonesian dream pop/indie-pop 5-piece from Depok, The Wellington – “Burned” from the new album “Playmaker” on Guerrilla Records
  
• Bristol, UK indie-pop/jangle/dream pop 6-piece HAMBURGER “Supersad” from the upcoming vinyl 12″ EP “Teenage Terrified” on Specialist Subject Records
  
• Copenhagen based dream/indie pop quartet KINDSIGHT “Terminal Daze” 2nd single on Rama Lama Records
  
• London, UK DIY indie-pop 4-piece Tugboat Captain “Damned Right” from the new album “Rut” via Glasgowian label Double A-Side Records
  
• Seattle, WA indie-pop duet Flying Fish Cove – “Xuxa” from the EP “Viridian”
  
• North Wales/Merseyside shoegaze/dream pop band BECOME THE SKY “Teimlo Fel Chwyldro” new single
  
• Estonian dark cinematic shoegaze/psychedelic band from Tallinn, Holy Motors “Endless Night” from the album “Horse” on Wharf Cat Records.
  
• Naarm/Melbourne dream pop/psych-pop trio led by Shelby Wilton, MUMA GANOUSH “Early Light” from the upcoming LP “The Big Beam” on Marthouse Records
  
• Australian shoegaze /alt pop band from Sydney, Grids and Dots “Hazey Jane” new single
  
• Grenoble, France indie/dream pop/shoegaze band, SO MANY LINES “Dans le vent (il n’y a que nous)” new single
  
• L.A.-based noise pop/dream pop band Soft Blue Shimmer “Cherry-Cola Abyss” from the upcoming album “Heaven Inches Away” on Disposable America and Galaxy Train Tape
  
• Italian shoegaze/psychedelic band PARIS ECSTASY “Cold Sun” from the debut EP “SHE DREAMS HE DREAMS”
  
• Varese, Italy psych-pop/dream pop band BLUEDAZE “Dreamwalk” new single                                                    
• Melbourne, Australia indie pop/dream pop/shoegaze 4-piece GRAZER “In Sight” new single
  
• Manchester, UK-based Psychedelic/Shoegaze/Dream Pop band Juliper Sky “Into the Outer Light” new single
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina dreampop/shoegaze/noise-pop 5-piece El Club Audiovisual – “Trascender” from the debut album “Ya no estamos tan solos” on Casa del Puente Discos
  
• Los Angeles, London, San Diego jangle/indie pop/dream pop collective with former members of Aberdeen, Fonda and Trembling Blue Stars, THE LUXEMBOURG SIGNAL “Mourning Moon” from the upcoming LP “The Long Now” on Shelflife Records                                                                                                              
• Edinburgh-based DIY folk-pop/indie rock project lead by singer/songwriter Dan Willson, aka Withered Hand “King Of Hollywood (Garage Version)” from the second Hangover lounge Split 7″ Picture Disc with Charles Latham “The King Of Hollywood / Next To Nothing Blues” on wiaiwya.
  
• Nashville, Tennessee slowcore/shoegaze duo I Could Live In Hope “USAPSA” from the upcoming “PSA, Not Ok” EP on Somewherecold Records
  
• Naples, Italy darkwave/dreampop/shoegaze TREES “A Short Term Effect (The Cure cover)”
  
• Bay Area fuzzy guitar pop project of former Slug, WYATT SMITH “No” from the cassette album “Full Circle” on Smoking Room
  
• Jakarta, Indonesia guitar indie-rock trio IS MODEST “No More Cake” from 2-track single “No More Cake / Polar”
  
• Barcelona based American ‘Shamanic Beach Grunge’ band lead by Ben Heckler, aka SEA FUZZ “Tooth and Claw” from the new album “Ocean Dreams”
  
• Japanese alt/shoegaze solo project Kinoue64 – 君の隣で – from the EP 町と君と空
  
• Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina shoegaze/post-rock/dreampop 4-piece COR DE LUX “Gravity Kills” from the new album “Dream Life”
  
• Cuernavaca, Mexico lo-fi/bedroom/electronic/dream pop/indie-pop solo musician (Anuncio en Blanco), Marco Mendoza “No estoy bien” debut single
  
• Japanese indie/shoegaze/synthpop duo of the couple Maaya and Ryuta, STILL DREAMS “Ultra Doomed” advance Digital Single for the upcoming 10″ Mini-LP on Elefant Records
  
• Sidney, Australia synthpop/dreampop trio GAUCI “Paradise” from the debut S/T EP
  
• L.A. based electronic new project from Foster The People members and multi-instrumentalists Sean Cimino & Isom Innis, aka PEEL “Citizen X” off debut “Peel” EP on Innovative Leisure
  
• Rye, Australia based synth spectral pop project of Raven Mahon (former member of Grass Widow) and Mikey Young (recording engineer and band member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring), aka The Green Child – ‘Witness’ from the new LP ‘Shimmering Basset’ on Upset The Rhythm
  
• Portland, Or avant-pop/synthpop duo of Bambi and Cole Browning, REPTALIENS “Taking” from the upcoming EP “Wrestling” on Captured Tracks
  
• Portland, Or minimal electronics/dream pop trio fronted by vocalist Misty Mary, WL “Water’s On My Side” from the album “ADHD” vinyl LP + flexi on Beacon Sound
  
• Sidney, Australia folk rock artist Julia Jacklin “to Perth, before the border closes” 2-track single on Sub Pop Single Club
  
• Sweden-bred, Ireland-based dream pop/dream folk anagrammatic musical pseudonym of visual artist Cecilia Danell (member of fellow Rusted Rail acts Cubs and Loner Deluxe), A Lilac Decline “Back to the Sea” from the second album ‘Shelter From The Shadows’ on Rusted Rail
  
• Asheville, NC experimental/ambient/folk/psychedelic guitarist Sarah Louise “Floating Rhododendron” title track from the new album “Floating Rhododendron”