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

• Makati, Philippines ethereal /jangle pop /shoegaze /dream pop solo project Vindeby “kisses/wishes” debut single
  

Whimsically floating on dreams of a euphoric road trip full of kisses and wishes, the velvety, immersive, and flowing debut from the Filipino solo project is rich in light, wistful, sparkling, and ringing guitar inlays alongside lush hopeful vocals deeply longing in anticipation, doused with vibrant introspection to warmly caress the heart.

• Münster, Germany jangly indie pop group part of The Fisherman and his Soul, His Soul – “The World Is Music” single on Bureau Platiruma!!!
  

“A perfect little P.O.P. ditty from jangle heaven” from the ultra-dynamic and buoyant Platiruma planet. This time the ‘Soul” sings for the ‘Fisherman’ (aka Seb Voss), through dreamily rousing vocals, merging into uplifting groovy harmonies with elated choral interplays, to deliver gratitude and joy into a surprise birthday celebration where a shimmery rainfall of jangly guitars, warm glowing keyboard motifs, and perky drum beats rise with rich and warming vibrancy, and it could not be otherwise, because our world is music.

• Montreal, Quebec Alternative Rock /Grunge /Shoegaze /Dream Pop band, BLISS “Rainbow Nights” from the demo EP “An Escape For Today”
  

For its most part promising demo EP by Montreal 4-piece that cruises, with freshness and a distinctive penchant for melodies, atmospheric and immersive shoegaze-laced dream pop sounds from the late ’80s and early ’90s stretched by sparse, intense surges of grungy distortion (“Swimming in the Ocean”). Dreamy and angsty vocals, at times layered with all-feminine ecstatic grace, sway arm-in-arm with the lush, sparkling arpeggiated flow of reverb-tinged emotive guitar lines, to conjure up a mixed bag of joy, melancholy, and longing.

• Bretagne-based ambient /ethereal /electro-acoustic /instrumental project of Scottish legendary Cocteau Twins co-founder and Harold Budd collaborator, Robin Guthrie “Smoulder” from “Astoria” EP [soleil après minuit]
• Scottish ambient /dream folk band based in Glasgow, Constant Follower “Patient Has Own Supply” 3rd single from the 2025 album “The Smile You Send Out Returns To You”
  
• Lebanese folk musician, songwriter, composer, sound engineer and part of dream pop trio Postcards, Julia Sabra “Dis, quand reviendras​-​tu? [Barbara cover, 1966]” off the cassette album “Natural History Museum” [Ruptured Records]
• Scottish indie folk singer /songwriter, Peter Kelly, aka Beerjacket “Expect Delays” from the upcoming album “Hourglass”
  
• UK ambient /drone /space /dream pop /ambient pop /electronic producer Dennis Huddleston, a.k.a. 36 “Exit All The Lights” from the upcoming album “Exit All The Lights” [3six Recordings]
• Los Angeles-based alternative pop /trip-hop /folk /dream pop /electronica singer-songwriter evrshde “Sanctuary” single
  
• London, UK indie pop group Sparky’s Magic Piano “Two Shadows” single
  
• Los Angeles-based indie folk rock collaboration, Bedouine and Sylvie – “Can You Tell” from V/A “Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan” tribute compilation on Sub Pop
  
• Durham, NC folk /string /chamber pop musician, singer and songwriter Lalitree Darnielle “Forest Fires” title track of the EP “Forest Fires”
  
• California 80s /dream-pop /indie pop band Sunder “I Guess I’ll See You In The Movies feat. Paradise Blossom” single
  
• Los Angeles based shoegaze /indie rock band Diffident Daffodils “Will We Ever Unite?” from “Will We Ever Unite / Alone Tonight” single from the upcoming album
  
• Boston, MA alternative /indie rock shoegaze /dream pop trio Opera “Forget” debut single via Broken Palace
  
• Tashkent, Uzbekistan shoegaze /indie rock singer-songwriter Władek Sheen “Goodbye” single
  
• Japanese indie rock artist Yoodoo Park, aka GRMLN “Are You Waiting For Someone Else?” 1st single from the forthcoming 2025 album
  
• London-based, Sydney-born Soft-Rock /Funk /Soulful Indie Pop artist Joel Sarakula “Midnight Movie” off the new album “Soft Focus” on Légère Recordings, Mr. Mellow’s Music & Lounge Records
  
• Melbourne, Australia soul /jazz /funk /psych-pop band BANANAGUN “Children of the Man” from the second album “Why is the Colour of the Sky?” on Full Time Hobby
  
• Vienna-based folk /indie pop /psychedelic pop 5-piece Blasser Kyren “Your Zone” off the upcoming second album “August Room” via Numavi Records
  
• Australian wintery chillwave /ambient pop project of Caleb Carr from Adelaide, Tokyo “Life Stuck In Traffic” second single
  
• Dreamy surf-tinged bedroom pop from Scottish musician David Skimming based in South Korea, LUNAR ISLES “Evergreen” single
  
• UK jangle /power /guitar-pop project of Oliver Flanagan (former bassist of Channel Six), Sorry Monks “There Goes My Baby” off the debut album “Recipe” CD on Subjangle
  
• Dublin, Ireland alt-country /jangle /power pop music project led by Dez Foley (Wilder, Crumb, The Sewing Room, The Drays), Acton Bell “I Thought I Saw You” from the EP “Silver City”
  
• Exeter, UK indie rock band Die Twice “Paris” from upcoming EP “A Beautiful Thing” 
  
• Orléans, France noise pop /dreamy folk songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Fakenahm “I Will Follow” from the 6th album “Landscapes”
  
• UK 60s-tinged/ lo-fi /indie pop /psychedelic rock /jangle /power pop /singer-songwriter and DIY musician Blake “Strawberry Way” from upcoming LP “Louder Than Sound” CD via Subjangle
  
• Oakland, CA jangle /indie /psychedelic rock band The Pleasure Routine “About Carrie” 2-track 7″ single
  
• East Coast of Scotland alt-country /jangle /power pop band Dropkick “Dreams Expire” from upcoming LP “Primary Colours” on Bobo Integral Records & Sound Asleep Records
  
• US DIY bedroom psych-pop /indie rock /noise pop project Wanpaku Graffiti “Emily, What Went Wrong​?​?” from the single “Emily, What Went Wrong​?​? / All is Abstraction​!​!”
  
• Arizona-based, early 90’s founded Leeds, UK-born, Sarah Records affiliated indie /noise pop group BOYRACER “Larkin” from “Seaside Riot” album on Emotional Response
  
• London-based indie pop-rock quartet founded by Helen and Kathy out of Barry, sassyhiya “I Had A Thought” from the debut LP “Take You Somewhere” via Skep Wax
  
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lo-fi /slowcore /indie pop band led by Will Kennedy, aka 22º Halo “Cobwebs” from the LP “ Lily of the Valley” via Tiny Library Records
  
• West Coast jangle indie pop outfit of Yea-Ming Chen (Yea-Ming and The Rumours), Rob Good (The Goods), Luke Robbins (ex-Latitude, RE Seraphin), and Ian McBrayer (ex-Sonny and The Sunsets, ex-Healing Potpourri), Ryli “I Think I Need You Around” off debut 2-track 7″ single “I Think I Need You Around” b​/​w “When I Fall” via Dandy Boy Records
  
• Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Psychedelic-Rock /Shoegaze band LLOLLYANNA “Into the Ground (Sky Under the Grave)” single
  
• London-based C86 /punk /psych /indie pop band, founded in the early ’90s, led by David Feck, COMET GAIN “BALLAD OF THE ARMS OF CABLE HOGUE” from the LP “RETURN TO TIGERTOWN” (re-imagined/re-animated)
  
• Berlin-based post-rock /drone /shoegaze /slowcore /dirgepop trio Aidan Baker, Tristen Bakker and Angela Muñoz, aka Tavares “Ghosts (Version M. Pielourde)” advance lathe cut 7″ single via Champion Version off the forthcoming full-length album on God Unknown Records
  
• Late 90s NYC electronic /shoegaze band Antarctica “Closetful of Churches” from the remastered 12″ vinyl reissue of the 3-track “23​:​03” EP (originally released on CD by File 13 Records in 1998) via Solid Brass Records
  
• Somerville, Massachusetts ethereal dream pop /shoegaze band The Shallows “Murder Your Darlings” single
  
• Hamilton, Canada shoegaze /dream pop /indie rock five-piece Capitol “Long Way From Down” from the sophomore album “Sounds Like a Place” 12″ via Meritorio Records
  
• Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania shoegaze /psychedelic rock/dreampop 4-piece Kali Ma and the Garland of Arms “Birds and the Beings” single
  
• Brighton, UK-based shoegaze /post-punk /alternative rock project by Nico B, active since 2008, BEATASTIC “The Big Hand” from the latest final album “Inspiration And Failures” CD via Shore Dive Records
  
• Bath, UK dream rock /shoegaze project of Jenn Zed, aka ZED POINT “Gaynor” single
  
• Wuppertal, German post-rock /grunge /shoegaze band Casino Garden “Let You Down” from the fourth album “Transition”
  
• Moscow-based post-punk /dream pop /shoegaze 4-piece BLUDHOOD “П​а​р​а​д​и​з” single
  
• Queens, NY indie rock /dream-pop /post-punk /shoegaze solo project Sea Shapes “I can’t go back” single
  
• Bielefeld, Germany based Istanbul‘s shoegaze /dream pop band Plastic Ideas “Kolay Mı Ya​ş​amak” single
  
• South Pasadena, California 90s /alt rock /indie rock /shoegaze band Seko “Barrel Connector” debut single
  
• Liverpool, UK dreampop /shoegaze band a Lesser Version “It Was Wrong (And I Know It Was)” single
  
• Australian 5-piece shoegaze /dream pop band from Sydney, Futureheaven “Tired Eyes” 1st single off upcoming EP “Forgetting Who You Once Were”
  
• Faenza, Italy 4-piece shoegaze band Mondaze “Lines Of You” 3rd single from the second album “Linger” via Bronson Recordings
  
• US ’90s alternative rock /noise pop /grungegaze /indie rock duo of Neil Burkdoll (Whimsical, LoveBlind, Dirty Dead, Fatalist) and Craig Douglas (Neonach, Omega Vague, Sonum Unum), aka Bright Like Stars “Reeling” from the upcoming LP “Reflections”
  
• Florence, Italy-based grunge /shoegaze band led by Brazilian musician Denis Kandle, aka DKANDLE “Kinda Hard To Find” the lead single of the new EP “Under the Effect”
  
• German Shoegaze /Doomgaze band from Hanover, Icantrest “Fly on the Wall” from “They won​´​t Let Me Sleep” debut EP
  
• New Jersey-based alternative rock /dreamo /shoegaze trio In Blue “Jagged Line” single
  
• Kalmar, Sweden lo-fi /noise pop /shoegaze /indie rock project of Jens Fransson, a former member of Sack Lunch (2017-2019), aka Trash Ratio “Widescreen” from the forthcoming album “Television Fine Dining”
  
• Bay Area slacker /shoegaze /garage pop guitar-driven 4-piece Magic User “Like The Moon” from the upcoming LP “Shadow On The Door” on Dandy Boy Records
  
• Porto Alegre, Brazil shoegaze /indie rock /new wave /dream pop band PROVIDENCE “New Phone” from “PROV​!​DENCE” EP
  
• Glasgow‘s post-punk /indie rock band Twilight Sad “Forget Paris (Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave – Demo)” from a special 10th-anniversary limited edition ‘Demos’ version of the 2014 fourth studio album “Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave” CD/12″ via FatCat Records
  
• Cleveland, Ohio punk /garage /rock and roll /power pop band Lavender Jets “Finding Peace (For Now)” from upcoming “Junk Room Melodies” LP 12″ on Just Because Records
  
• London, UK scuzzy indie/art-pop unit CJ Calderwood, Marc Pell, Mica Levi and Raisa Khan (FKA Micachu & The Shapes), Good Sad Happy Bad “Turbine” from the second LP “All Kinds of Days” via Textile Records
  
• Vancouver, BC shoegaze /electronic /psychedelic rock solo project REVOLUTION ABOVE DISORDER “The Flowers of Destruction” new single
  
• Atlanta, Georgia‘s beat /rock and roll /psychedelic /garage rock band featuring the late Flesh Hammer a.k.a. Jeff Walls on guitar, Woggles “Anyway The Wind” 2-track 7″ single on Rogue Records
  
• Akron, OH jangle /indie rock /power-pop 4-piece Librarians With Hickeys “Spying By The Numbers” from “How To Make Friends By Telephone” via Big Stir Records
  
• San Francisco indie /power pop band led by  Jeff Shelton of Deadlights, The Well Wishers “Walk On Water” (written by Marty Schneider of Trip Wire) single
  
• UK shoegaze /psychedelic /post-punk /coldwave duo The KVB “Dead Of Night (A Place To Bury Strangers Remix)”
  
• Melbourne, Australia psych pop /synth-pop band of founders Raven Mahon (of Grass Widow, Rocky) and Mikey Young (of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Shutdown 66), with Shaun Gionis (of Boomgates) and Alex Macfarlane (Hobbies Galore label head), aka The Green Child “The Lawn” from the third album “Look Familiar” via Upset The Rhythm & Hobbies Galore
  
• French electronic /dream pop /minimal folk singer-songwriter IMAAN “Salah” from the album “Spleen” with the collaboration of producer and multi-instrumentalist Ray BORNEO on Petrol Chips
  
• Stockholm, Sweden electropop duo Aksel Friberg and Aino Collma, aka Aksel & Aino “Bubbles” off upcoming “Akvatisk Beredskap” LP [Public Possession]
• London, UK dream pop /electropop trio Night Tapes “To be free” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia indie rock /alt folk singer-songwriter Juice Webster “Hannah” single
  
• London-based Americana /Northern Soul /Psych /Space Pop-Rock musician and composer Matt Berry feat. Kitty Liv – “I Gotta Limit” first single from the new album “Heard Noises” via Acid Jazz