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

• London-based shoegaze /dreampop solo project Rainsong “Seven Stars” single
  

The sunbeamy MBV-esque “Seven Stars” plunges into a mesmerizing, looping and plangent magma of iridescent, heavily distorted guitars, resonating and revolving around steady drum beats that thump under sharp rippling kaleidoscopic hues, encompassing in seething swirling spirals where crackling stratifications, soaring emotional shivers, and misty rarefactions layer with reverb-drenched vocals, radiating into an airy euphoric, faraway rapture toward elusive, surreal fringes.

• Greek-born ethno /psych-pop /indie rock artist Corpus Perditum – “Lule e Egër” 2nd single from upcoming debut LP “Self Eroticism” [Nice Guys]

Compelling, expansive, and cinematic in scope, the new song by the Greek-born atmospheric, shiny psych-rock instrumental sound explorer winds smoothly over warming, pulsing bass grooves and slithery drums, inlaid with bright layers of glistening, nostalgic guitar riffs, subtly sizzling, lilting chords, and overlapping wistful high flourishes, laced with smooth, fluid keyboards, to bring forth contemplation, wanderlust, and heady travels.

• Vienna, Austria shoegaze /dreamgaze /dream pop band Backwards Charm “I Feel Nothing” single
  

We featured the Austrian group back in 2020 during their second album release, but then we lost sight of them a bit, to be honest. Reduced to a duo, Backwards Charm still knows how to convey heartfelt sentiments with a striking guitar work. A stripped-down, emotionally ridden new song cloaked in intense, buried anxiety, pulsates perpetually on a sonorous, moody bass line and steady, bouncy percussions surrounded by lonesome guitar melodies that resonate in the ether with painful, high-pitched, sparkly reverberations, shivering hopelessly together with strained, whispery vocals, drawing emptiness, apathy, and callousness from the absence of bliss.

• Vermont-based acoustic indie acoustic pop folk multi-instrumentalist, hermit mystic, and founding member of cult supergroup Feathers, Kurt Weisman “Let My Spirit Rise” from the remastered vinyl edition of “Orange” LP (originally released in 2010 on limited edition CD) [Poole Music / Autumn Records]
• Seattle ambient /minimal acoustic folk singer-songwriter Tiny Vipers “Rainfall” from the album “Tormentor”
  
• New York-based ambient /indie folk singer-songwriter Devin Shaffer “I Guess I’m Crawling” off the debut studio LP “Patience” [American Dreams]
• London-based soul /jazz /dub /Casio drone /experimental pop project of French multi-instrumentalist Marie Merlet, aka Iko Chérie “We Smoke That Peace Pipe” from the LP, “Soft Centre” [Pingipung]
• Cambridge, UK psych-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights “Fables of Beauty” off of the fifth album “Fen Creatures”
  
• Queens, New York 3-piece indie pastoral folk /dreampop /ambient pop group Constant Smiles “Run Out on Life” from the album”Moonflowers” [Felte]
• Naarm/Melbourne’s acoustic freak-folk four-piece Who Cares? “Wax and Wane” from V/A “Going back to sleep…” compilation LP [A Colourful Storm]
• Naarm/Melbourne alt-indie folk group Kisses “Butterfly Eyes” single [bedroom suck records]
• Pittsburgh, PA indie pop folk singer-songwriter Olive Cramer “Prettier Eyes” from “Estranged” LP
  
• Portland, OR psych /dream-pop duo Shady Cove “Shadow Rider” from “Shadow Rider / Overdrive”
  
• Canadian experimental /dream pop duo (formerly known as Cult Classic) from Montreal, BODYWASH “Massif Central (Desert Lake Session) from “Desert Lake Session” EP [Light Organ Records]
• Chicago-based medieval goth /dream-pop /synth-pop solo project of Isabel Cenower (Smut), 16 Psyche “Mother of Vinegar” from the debut cassette full-length “Martyr Without a Cause” [Candlepin Records]
• Scottish Garage Space Pop band Gulp “Wildflower (Richard Norris Remix)” sun-drenched Balearic remix by electronic producer extraordinaire Richard Norris (The Grid, Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve, The Time and Space Machine) off upcoming remix 12″ EP [E.L.K. Records]
• Copenhagen electronica /ambient pop duo A Good Year “Push & Pull feat. Helena Gao” single [Escho]
• Bath/Bristol, UK electronic / dream-pop band Night Swimming “Submarine” single [Venn Records]
• Atlanta, GA ambient /shoegaze /dream pop /slowcore project of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Thomas Howard, aka Orchid Mantis “On Your Mind (ft. Marina Yozora)” from the LP “In Airports” [Start-track]
• Chicago-based yacht rock /soul /indie folk duo of Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek (former members of Smith Westerns), Whitney “Small Talk” title track of the 4th LP “Small Talk”
  
• London lounge /exotica /pop band led by Saul Adamczewski (Fat White Family), aka Insecure Men “Time Is A Healer” off the second album “A Man For All Seasons” [Fat Possum Records]
• Norwegian–German sophisti-pop /indie pop duo J.O. Åleskjær and Seb Voss, aka Herr Wade “Am Tag, an dem er die Musik vergaß” from the mini-LP “The Opposite Of Cool” [Bureau Platiruma]
• Chicago-based rock & roll /doo-wop /glam garage rock group The Knee-Hi’s “Oh My!” single
  
• New York-based lo-fi jangle indie pop project by Phil Sutton (Pale Lights, Cinema Red and Blue and once of Comet Gain), Love, Burns “Give Away the Day (“Tag Verschenken”, Zimt cover)” from V/A “Stadtbibliothek” 10th Anniversary KUS label compilation vinyl LP [ Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten]
• Boston, UK-based indie pop-rock composer & musician (one half of Fine), Alice Kat “Brand New” single
  
• Makassar, Indonesia indie pop band The Interpretation Cultures “Every Single Word (They Go Boom !! cover)”
  
• Surabaya, Indonesia C86 /jangle /power /noise pop /indie pop unit The Caroline’s “alternate route to the ether” from the debut album “mediocre twenties in a not-so-metropolitan setting”
  
• UK indie pop /synthpop band led by Huw Bucknell formed in the late 90s, The Spanish Amanda “Walter Benjamin” from the album “Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything”
  
• Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador lo-fi /twee indie pop solo project Chesterfield County “Cookie B” from the debut EP “3 Little Songs”
  
• Indonesian lofi /indie /noise pop /shoegaze unit 048 “Sour Angus” from “STRAWBERRY WINE” EP cassette [anorak/heavenpunks]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /jangle /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Headless Corpse” from the 16th album “What’s Happening To Me?” [ Salt Mine Records ]
• Clare, Australia jangle /indie rock-pop solo project of Caleb Carr, Treechangers “My Last Light” from the 2-track single “My Last Light / Fields”
  
• Thessaloniki, Greek avant-garde /alternative /noise /indie rock trio Viceroy – “On A Sunday” from the first album “Freedom Tastes Like Breakfast” [Make Me Happy Records]
• Vancouver, BC 4-piece fuzzy indie rock /power pop band Buddie “In the Glass Shell” from the LP “Glass” [Crafted Sounds]
• Brisbane, Australia DIY punk / indie rock band Scrabbled “Do You Play What If?” from the album “Plough Through the Rust” LP [Wormwood Grasshopper]
• Michigan-based 3-piece lo-fi indie rock band led by Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good To Me, Tyvek, Winged Wheel, etc.), Idle Ray “Airport” title track of the new EP “Airport”
  
• New York-based lo-fi /rock and roll /indie rock songwriter (former singer/guitarist for St. Johnny and Grand Mal), William Carlos Whitten “Joey” from upcoming cassette LP “My Life In Cinema” [Third Kind Records]
• Montreal, Québec punk /jangle /garage /rock ‘n’ roll quartet The Wesleys “Permanent Vacation” off the “Explosive Device” EP [Meritorio Records]
• Richmond, Virginia jangle indie /guitar pop band led by The Silent Boys vocalist/rhythm guitarist, Wallace Dietz, The Melody Chamber “Stop Making Sense” from the first self-titled album [Too Good To Be True (EU) /Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records (US)]
• Somerville, MA jangle guitar pop outfit Strange Passage “Daylight Savings” from the second album “A Folded Sky” [Meritorio Records]
• Brighton, UK-based 5-piece schrammelig post-punk /indie-pop band, Jetstream Pony “Sushi Later” from V/A “Stadtbibliothek” 10th anniversary KUS label compilation vinyl LP [Kleine Underground Schallplatten]
• Los Angeles dream pop /shoegaze /psychedelic /indie rock band led by John Andrew Fredrick, aka the black watch “There Are Solutions to Each & Every Problem” 2025 Christmas single [Eskimo Records]
• Southend, UK grunge /folk /indie rock songwriter and producer (formerly under the punk alias of BLAB), Frances Murray “Right” first single from the debut album “Dreamer”
  
• Philadelphia-based indie rock band Remember Sports “Bug” from upcoming LP “Refrigerator” [Father/Daughter Records]
• Xi’an, China 4-piece Indie Rock band EndlessWhite – Nothingness（墙的另一面) from 当时间越来越响亮时 EP
  
• Miami, FL indie rock /dream-pop 4-piece airhockey “Something” single
  
• Nashville, TN electronic /dream-pop solo songwriter and musician Bifff “Closer” single
  
• Philadelphia-based Britpop /shoegaze /dream pop /guitar rock band The Julies “Summermouth” single [Lost in Ohio]
• Brooklyn, NY bedroom indie /post-punk /new wave /jangly /dream pop project of Michael Chau, aka The Field Index “Cannibals” 2nd single from the debut EP “We Had Everything But Time” [Living Waters Records]
• Dublin, Ireland 5-piece alt-rock /shoegaze /grunge band Affection to Rent “Cathedral” second single
  
• Philadelphia-based ambient /lo-fi ambient /noise /shoegaze solo project of Teri K. (aka Nearest Threshold), aka Borrowed Tide “Afterimage” title track of the demo EP”Afterimage”
  
• Washington, D.C. alternative /shoegaze /indie rock band Flowerbomb “Forget My Name” single
  
• Winter Haven, FL ambient /dream pop /psychedelic rock /shoegaze duo, The Stargazer Lilies “Eleven O Eight” single
  
• Curitiba, Brazil dream pop /shoegaze project solo project of Rafael Panke, Afterhourless “Glass barricade / Silica Blues” from “No Friends At Dusk” EP [Spleen Teen (BR) / Shore Dive Records (UK)]
• Manchester’s alt-rock /shoegaze four-piece cruush “Rupert Giles” single [Heist or Hit]
• South Australia-based Dream Pop /Shoegaze one-man band of songwriter, guitarist, and producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “Peroxide” single
  
• Brazilian dream-pop /shoegaze father and daughter duo Lwna “Twlight Drift” from “A Storm of Light” EP
  
• Nagoya, Japan 5-piece shoegaze /dream pop band Softsurf “Voyager” from the debut LP “Gazing at a Mind” [DREAMWAVES RECORDS]
• Venice, Italy dream pop /shoegaze four-piece Glazyhaze “ROMEO” the final single and B-side from the sophomore LP “SONIC”
  
• Umeå, Sweden grunge /shoegaze /dreampop band Haermape “The Call” single
  
• Pittsburgh-based dream-pop /grungegaze /shoegaze solo project (also part of Threaded and Elder Wizard), Strayline “Empty Motion” from “Lustre” EP
  
• Chattanooga, Tennessee alt-rock /emo /slowcore /shoegaze solo project, Blue Heron Holy Ghost “… to dust” from the full-length “LP”
  
• Toronto, Canada alt-rock/dream-pop/shoegaze four-piece Seventh Dose “Allure” from the EP “Liminal” [Wormwood Records / Pleasure Tapes]
• Portland, OR dream pop /noise rock /shoegaze solo project Animal Ghosts “Chromoclear” from “Alexandra’s Band” LP
  
• Philadelphia post-shoegaze band fronted by Domenic “Nicky” Palermo, Nothing “Cannibal World” from the fifth solo album “A Short History of Decay” [Run For Cover Records] A Short History
• Adelaide, Australia post-hardcore /alt-rock /noise rock outfit Twine “Faith Of Crisis” from “Deer In The Headlights” EP
  
• Innsbruck, Austria post-metal /doomgaze /blackened gaze mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Elisa Giulia Teschner, aka Ellereve “Like a moth to a flame” from “Umbra” LP [Eisenwald]
• Bristol, UK Experimental Rock /Psych /Kraut /Post-Punk /Shoegaze band Nossiennes “Penumbra” 2nd excerpt from the upcoming album “Water from the Sun”
  
• Brussels/Berlin-based krautrock /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band (past and present members of Gang Of Four, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tricky, The Fuzztones and The Third Sound), Golden Hours “The Letter” from the sophomore “Beyond Wires” LP [Fuzz Club]
• Mexican lo-fi garage /dream pop /gothic psychedelic rock outfit Soft Invasion “THE WITCH (ON A STREET CALLED LOVE)” single [artificial spirit recordings]
• Saskatoon, Canada grunge-space-psychedelic rock band The Radiation Flowers “Sunshine On The Heavens” from upcoming LP “Too Much To Dream”
  
• Canadian fuzzy psych-folk /cosmic rock singer and guitarist, Chad Ross (Nordic Nomadic, Quest for Fire, Comet Control, and The Deadly Snakes), aka C.ROSS “Plant Your Eyes” from the LP “Future Site of C.ROSS” [Echodelick Records]
• Hungarian improvised psychedelic rock collective, Psychedelic Source Records “The King of Magic Colts and Wands II” from “The Initiation Outlaws” album (Live jam session recorded in Budapest on March 25, 2025, featuring Go Kurosawa from Kikagaku Moyo and his friend Ryosuke)
  
• West Africa desert blues /psychedelic /Mauritanian griot music singer and songwriter Noura Mint Seymali “Lebleida” from the third LP “Yenbett” [Glitterbeat Records]
• Portland, OR‘s psych /space /krautrock outfit MØTRIK “Road Sound” from the fourth full-length “Earth” [Jealous Butcher Records]
• Austin, TX-based new wave /garage punk band led by Jeff Burke (The Marked Men, The Reds, The Potential Johns, Lost Balloons), Radioactivity “I Thought” title track of the LP “Time Won’t Bring Me Down” [Wild Honey Records / Dirtnap Records]
• Manchester, UK garage /indie rock band PINS “I’ll Be Yours” single
  
• Dartmoor-raised, London-based alt-indie /folk rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Dominie Hooper “Hurricane” from the LP “In This Body Lives”
  
• Pacific Northwest Americana /indie rock /alternative folk project of A. Ball, aka Rainshadower “Cold Comfort of Grey Days” from “Charred Scars” LP
  
• Bochum, Germany-born alternative /indie folk singer-songwriter Philine Sonny “Rush Hour Traffic” from “Virgin Lake” [Nettwerk]
• Brooklyn, New York, veteran experimental psych /indie rock /acoustic folk guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn “Loons” from the seventh LP “Daylight Daylight” [No Quarter]
• Columbus, Ohio indie folk rock band formed in 2007 by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little, Saintseneca “Hot Water Song” from the LP “Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs” [Lame-O Records]
• Hereford, UK avant-folk duo, Alula Down “High Germany” from the 2-track “ High Germany / Summer Song” 7″ single [Tepid Toad Records]
• Mexico City ambient /ethereal /electronic /dream-pop solo project of the singer songwriter of Mint Field, Estrella del Sol “No cambio la historia” single
  
• Japan ambient /drone /noise /experimental solo project by a member and producer of shoegazer burrrn, Yana Yanai, aka YANA “Sleepwalk” from the LP “Breeze” [TESTCARD RECORDS]