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

• Trondheim, Norway DIY shoegaze /dreamrock quartet Slow Country “Ixus 70” second single
  

The sophomore single from the DIY Trondheim dreamrockers builds a heavy and mesmeric textural swathing density, stirred by shuffling drums, that echo and tremble seamlessly, carved out by recurring bittersweet twinkling guitar ripples and resonant soars of abrasive scratchy distortion, engulfing lost, ghost-like vocals in a timeless and abysmal darkness of blindness and longing.

• Massachusetts neo-psychedelic /dream pop /indie rock duo Spare Heart “Souls Of Gold” single
  

Late 80s jangly and slightly 60s surf infused, buzzing guitar pop tune, about how the mind plays tricks by making the past seem more rosy than it was, triggering steady punchy drum beats and humming supple bass pulses to liven up a build of balanced and upbeat grooves woven with washes of dire emotional ringing guitars spiraling with reverberating fuzzy melancholy around breathy, vibrant female vocals rising, slightly anxious yet hope-filled, through a slew of lively sparkling and grounding melodies.

• Brazilian dream-pop /shoegaze father and daughter duo Lwna “Missing You All” single
  

Suddenly popped up from the dark with two interesting albums almost simultaneously, blurring the orthodox, both noisy and melodic, strains of 90s Shoegaze and Dream Pop with an earnest and delicate emotive heft. The absence of social media, once not too essential for us, made us wonder whether it was AI-generated music, but after a positive confirmation from a trusted Brazilian source, here we go with the brand new single. A cold, grey melancholic ode to the loss of beloved pets, seized by drowsy, depressed vocals that softly billow upon a stumbling, reflective vast sheet inlayed by dull, wistful guitar chords, fuzz-laced bursts and plaintive, searing leads, to hang down and finally soar into warm, pain-filled longing whilst remembering the faces and spaces of lost beloved animals.

• California-based field recordings /ambient /folk /americana /electro-acoustic /soundtrack /cinematic /electronic composer Austin Ray “Acoustic Landscapes” from “Salton Sea: Ambient Americana” LP
  
• Varese-based, Italian ambient /electronic /jazz /dark folk singer-songwriter Elisa Begni “Exposed” from the first album “What Remains”[Kono Dischi]
• France/UK ambient soundscapes /dark noise /neo-classical /wyrd folk duo Gaëlle Croguennec and Phoebe Bentham, aka Songe “Éveil” from the upcoming album “Daughters” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Dublin-born devotional /drone /folk noir singer-songwriter (former bassist of late 90s indie rock band JJ72), Hilary Woods “Faults” from the third album “Night CRIÚ” [Sacred Bones]
• French ethereal /psych /dark spectral folk singer-songwriter (former member of J.C. Satan and La Secte du Futur), Ailise Blake “Consecration” from the second LP “Soave” [These Hands Melt]
• Enigmatic ambient /abstract /cloud folk /dream pop /indie folk singer-songwriter Betty Hammerschlag “Betty what up” from “Fake Girl” LP [blush]
• Melbourne-based atmospheric dreamy pop three-piece Andrew Withycombe, Kerrie Bolton and Bart Cummings (3/4 of The Cat’s Miaow), Hydroplane “I’ve Got a Buzz” from “A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim” LP [Efficient Space]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina experimental folk pop singer-songwriter Juana Molina “siestas ahí” 1st single off the eighth full-length LP “DOGA”
  
• German minimal electronic /downtempo /dream pop /synth-pop duo Regina Janssen & Günther Janssen, aka Donna Regina “Autumn In Paris” from the album “Lilac”, their first LP in six years [Karaoke Kalk]
• Wiltshire, UK-based folk /jangle /indie pop husband and wife duo Carl and Kat Mann, aka Shapes Like People “Supergirl” (adaptation of the 1969 song ‘Superman’ by The Clique) from the upcoming 2026 LP “Under the Rainbow”
  
• Makassar, Indonesia-based indie pop band led by Fadhli Rafq Al-Fath, The Interpretation Cultures “Sad Eyes in Velvet” (Biff Bang Pow! cover) from the cover EP “That Kind of Pop Song”
  
• Dublin, Ireland C86 /jangly pop group active from 1987 to 1991, Hey Paulette “She Just Says Hello To Me” from the remastered version of “See You Sometime” EP (originally recorded in 1987)
  
• Indonesian noise indie pop unit Scouse tihs Actcent “Tomb” from “I was swerving with some scran & a bevvy” EP [A Single Kiss!]
• Japanese fuzzy noise-pop band led by Ichiro Li, Hideaway “レッツラゴー[Let’s La Go] from the second EP ” 寝れる時に寝とけ ”
  
• London-based jangly indie-pop quartet The Sundries “All The Things About Me” from the self-titled album [Subjangle]
• Bristol, UK-based 4-piece Americana /jangly /folk /indie rock band The Lovely Basement “Lowlands” title track of the album “Lowlands” [Precious Recordings of London]
• Stockholm veteran dream pop /electropop band, Red Sleeping Beauty “Stupid Boy” taken from the “Pop Songs” 1992 to 1996 period 2xCD retrospective featuring 23 rare and unreleased tracks [Matinée Recordings]
• Cincinnati, OH indie college rock /indie jangle pop trio Hamlet “Red Trucks” from the album “Outdoor Drama” [Subjangle]
• San Diego, CA-based shoegaze /trip-hop /dream pop band led by Cara Potiker, moondaddy “Painted” from “Dove Tapes” LP [Dusty Mars Records / Silver Girl Records]
• London-based indie /dream-pop duo Tessa Murray & Greg Hughes, aka Still Corners “The Crying Game” single
  
• Wisconsin bedroom psych pop project of Sarah Nienaber (of Candace, and Web of Sunsets), aka Blue Tomorrows “Colorado” from upcoming LP “Weather Forever”
  
• UK lo-fi /jangly guitar pop /indie-rock band started in the early ’80s, led by singer-poet-songwriter Martin Newell, aka The Cleaners From Venus “Neverland For Now” title track of the new EP “Neverland For Now”
  
• Manchester, UK-based atmospheric piano-led indie rock solo project of Kitchens Of Distinction frontman Patrick Fitzgerald (Lost Girls, Oskar’s Drum, The April Seven, Fruit), Stephen Hero “Somehow We Live” from the new LP “Convalescence”
  
• London-based indie /art rock /psychedelic rock five-piece band, Ulrika Spacek “Interesting Corners” single [Tough Love]
• Egersund, Norway indie rock /power pop /jangle-pop band led by singers and guitarists Frode Stromstad and Anne Lise Frokedal, I Was a King “Pool Painted Black” from the LP “Until The End” [Hype City Music]
• Bergen, Norway new wave /indie rock /post-punk band Kristi Brud “Balearene” title track of the second LP “Et fall” [Sheep Chase Records]
• Munich-based dream-pop/synthpop band Clear Coast “ATS” single
  
• Ottawa, Canada 80s-tinged new wave /synth-pop local supergroup (members of New Calling, The White Wires, Bonnie Doon, Sleep Late, Warp Lines, Million Dollar Marxists, and The Giorgioz), the Retrospects “Electric Nights” from the sophomore LP “Vaporwaves”
  
• Los Angeles-based bedroom indie pop /dream pop duo veronicavon “Riptide” from upcoming album “Icecream” [Born Losers Records]
• UK ambient /ethereal /dreampop /haunting /psychedelic musician and composer Jodie Lowther “Plastic Fangs” from the album “Moonmaskas” [The Cat Collects]
• Atlanta, GA ambient /shoegaze /dreampop /dark wave multi-instrumentalist Brent Collins, Slo Moon “ON THE OUTSIDE” from the LP “THE DAYSLEEPER”
  
• South Korea-based dreamy surf-tinged jangle /hazy bedroom indie pop from Scottish musician David Skimming, Lunar Isles “Dust” single
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina shoegaze /dreampop /noise-pop solo project Montegrande “Canal” from “Portal” EP
  
• Scottish alt /indie rock trio Swim School “Always On My Mind” from the S/T debut album “Swim School” [LAB Records]
• Los Angeles dream pop /indie pop artist Kristiane “Smoke & Mirrors” single [FADER Label]
• Denver, CO-based dream-pop /dreamgaze /alternative rock artist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Vanna Blue “Back and Forth” from the upcoming LP “JoyCry” [Noon Records]
• Kyoto, Japan Shoegaze /Hyper-pop /Post-Melocore solo project milkeystain “The twilight” from “Retrospection” EP [Siren for Charlotte]
• Atlanta, GA Dream Pop /Shoegaze four-piece Turning Violet “Missing Ache” from the debut single “Missing Ache / All These Things”
  
• New York lo-fi /dreampop /slowcore /shoegaze band led by Jordan John Parker, aka Vivienne Westwood “Lace” from the album “Blurring”
  
• London-based, Cambridge ambient /noise-pop /dream-pop /gaze rockers Lemondaze “Polari” from the upcoming EP “Subtext” [Venn Records]
• Dortmund, Germany dreampop /shoegaze duo Telephonist “Ins Blau” 3rd single from upcoming debut EP [Porcupine Records]
• Hamburg darkwave /post-punk /dreamgaze /synth wave duo SEASURFER “Hide (The Weimar Mix) from “Dive in (The Weimar Session)” EP (mixed by Dirk Knight and Harald Löwy in Weimar/Germany back in 2013 before the regular Seasurfer debut-album “Dive In”)
  
• Atlanta, GA shoegaze /noise /dream pop duo Silk Daisys “Haunted House” single
  
• York, UK-based 4-piece shoegaze /dream pop band Heavy Bloom “Burning” single
  
• Tucson, AZ Psychedelic /Dream Pop /Shoegaze band MUTE SWAN “Hypnosis Tapes” single
  
• Chicago Noise Rock /Shoegaze /Dream Punk band Old Coke “Halfstep” from the cassette LP “Blood Orange”
  
• Washington, D.C. indie rock /post-rock /shoegaze solo project Dutch Gunderson “Around” from the “Spin” EP
  
• Phoenix, AZ 4-piece dream pop /shoegaze band Alison’s Halo “Dozen ’96” from “Skywide” EP [Nettwerk]
• Hamburg, Germany dream pop /psychedelic /shoegaze five-piece MELTING PALMS “Echoes” single [la pochette surprise records]
• French alternative rock /noise rock /punk /shoegaze trio Mont Loser “Never Guess” debut single [GÉOGRAPHIE]
• Swedish post-hardcore-noise-rock-shoegaze-something quartet Legbiter “Worms” from the upcoming eponymous EP “Worms” [Pelagic Records]
• Hong Kong solo atmospheric /blackgaze /post-black metal music project formed in 2016 by Derrick Lin, aka Voyage In Solitude “Serene Moonlight” single
  
• Lisbon industrial /EBM /kraut /drone /psychedelic trio MAQUINA “Misfit” single [Fuzz Club Records]
• Guadalajara, Mexico experimental /garage /space /psychedelic rock trio Neptuna “Umbral” from the LP “Lútea” [Half Shell Records]
• Leeds, UK C86 /fuzzy new-wave /punk pop group Nervous Twitch “Don’t Get in Touch” from the LP “The Day Job Gets in the Way”
  
• Athens, Greece-based DIY art indie rock US-born duo Beloved Binge “Anamnesis” single
  
• Toulon, South of France power pop /garage punk foursome The Spitters – “Up N Down” from upcoming debut LP “Fake Brutal” [Howlin Banana Records]
• Chicago, IL lo-fi electronic pop project of singer-songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), Advance Base “Blue Christmas 2″ from 2-track single”Movie Theater Manager” [Orindal Records]
• Scottish ex-De Rosa frontman and Bellshill‘s shadier pop songsmith M. John Henry “All Saints Day” from the upcoming “Early Songs, Of Late” LP (a collection of reworked and newly performed versions of classic songs and unreleased material) [Gargleblast Records]
• Galway, Ireland ambient /cinematic /neo classical /dark folk composer and musician Roisin Lowry, aka Lōwli “Window in the Woods” title track of the debut LP “Window in the Woods” [Veta Records]
• Los Angeles-based Irish Celtic pagan folk harpist and vocalist, Joy Shannon “Beren and Lúthien (feat. Leila Abdul-Rauf)” off the new album “In the Forest Singing Sorrowless” [Fiadh Productions]