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

• Sydney, Australia dream-pop duo Lorelei “88” from the double A-side single “Dark Arches & 88”
  

New double single after more than two years of hiatus from the Dream Pop duo from Melbourne. “88” lays out the pair’s distinctive lush interplay of shadow and light through spirals of beautifully tragic atmospheric vocals, gliding over a vibrant backdrop of crisp juddering percussion patterns, ghostly synth, and sharp, glowing guitar reverberations with fragile breathy harmonies, haunted by obsessive ringing echoes and agonizing searing bursts, to explore loss and darkness.

• Brisbane, Australia alt-rock /shoegaze band Blue Diner. “Silhouettes” single
  

Third enveloping and surreal single, about pushing through difficult times, from the quiet + loud, not much loud to be fair this time, four-piece from Brisbane. ”Silhouettes” instead ebbs and flows, in a pleasant balance amid bedroom-pop reflective intimacy and a 90s shoegaze haze, stirred by stumbling drums and snaky warm bass pulses through blankets of shimmering wistful guitar melodies and soft buzzing, distorted riffs, echoing and swelling over angst dreamy vocals and soft aching back-ups, struggling to let go into a turbulent euphoric finale.

• Melbourne 4-piece indie rock /grunge /folk rock band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Milly Haig, aka Milly Strange “Watching, Waiting” second single
  

The third suggestion again from Down Under comes from a newcomer band fronted by singer-songwriter Milly Haig, which delivers haunted, moody folk storytelling possessed by biting and vibrant grunge and rock and roll demons, braced by a magnetic expressive, vocal delivery, that can take on high and deep, as well as poignant and powerful tones in Polly Jean Harvey’s style. “Watching, Waiting” drives punchy syncopated drum beats and erratic bass lines to underpin deeply felt, resolved vocals, with veneers of anger and pain, belting out emotional harmonies, echoed by turbulent quivers of energetic sparkling guitar riffs laced with soaring, pain-filled shrieky and wailing leads, to explore the point in a relationship when a person stops caring and is just glad it’s over.

• Norwegian experimental electronics /kosmische /kraut /acid-prog /space /psychedelic rock band, Electric Eye “Octagon” from “Dyp Tid” album [Fuzz Club Records]
• Ljubljana, Slovenia-based indie /country /folk songwriter and former member of Seattle-based cult band The Walkabouts, Chris Eckman ”Town Lights Fade” from the upcoming album ”The Land We Knew the Best”
  
• Los Angeles-based ambient /drone /shoegaze /ethereal /meditative /soundscape /dream pop solo project of Cynthia Bernard, aka Marine Eyes “A letter from Home” from “Songs for Incense” EP
  
• Sweden/France ambient /ethereal /experimental /electronic collaboration Merely & Malibu “Spirit of Ecstasy” from “Essential Mixtape” LP [YEAR0001]
• Los Angeles-based experimental pop singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter “The Laugh Is in the Eyes” single
  
• Toronto, Canada guitar pop /dream folk singer-songwriter (U.S. Girls, Jennifer Castle and Shabason & Krgovich), Dorothea Paas “No Metaphor” from the second LP “Think Of Mist” [telephone explosion records]
• Dutch chamber pop /jazz /folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Roosmarijn “Outside” from the debut LP “Wide Open Space”
  
• London-based North American dream pop /experimental pop artist ARMINDA K “Perfectly Formed” from the second LP “Time and a Feeling”
  
• New Zealand alternative pop /indie rock /dream pop artist and producer Amelia Murray, aka Fazerdaze “City Glitter” from the sophomore album, “Soft Power” [Section1]
• Brooklyn/London r&b /discodelik /funk /soulful female-led band Say She She “Purple Snowflakes” (Marvin Gaye cover, 1964) from the Christmas 7″ single “Purple Snowflakes / This Wintertime” [Colemine Records]
• Canadian dream pop duo (formerly known as Cult Classic) from Montreal, Bodywash “Last Christmas” (Wham! cover) [Light Organ Records]
• Athens, Greece dream pop duo Keep Shelly in Athens “Untold” single
  
• Queens, NY ambient /folk /dream pop singer-songwriter and guitarist born and raised in Southeast Asia, Alexia Avina “Perennial” from the EP “Zen and Hot”
  
• Norway Psychedelic /Dreampop trio Glassmanet “With Onward Flow” from “Flow” EP
  
• Brighton And Hove, UK C86 /jangle indie pop trio formed in 2002, Assistant “Overwhelming” from the album “Certain Memories” CD/12″[Subjangle]
• Stroud, UK debut experimental pop solo project of electronic artist (one-third of Voka Gentle), Imogen Mason, aka sm^sher “Heavy Handed” from the debut LP “Pit of Mine” [Scrawl World Ltd.]
• Seattle, WA indie pop /surf pop /shoegaze /dream-pop band Beach Vacation “Come Back“ from “Let Go” EP 12″
  
• Portland, OR Chill /Surf /Dream Pop singer-songwriter Bathrobe “Goth Eyes” from “Scary Movies” EP [Spirit Goth Records]
• Venice, Italy lo-fi /bedroom pop /shoegaze /dreampop duo GO HAWAII “Auburn” from the upcoming EP “Mangy”
  
• Clare, Australia lo-fi /bedroom pop /indie /dream pop band (formerly Foulness Island, and Bedroom Holiday), Treechangers “Tasmania” single
  
• Leicester, UK indie guitar pop side project of Shopfires‘ Neil Hill, NEUCLOUDS “The Sound of Giving Up” single
  
• Los Angeles-based psych /Americana /indie rock band Beachwood Sparks “Wild Swans UK Radio Mix” fourth single from the Beachwood Sparks comeback album, “Across The River Of Stars” [Curation Records]
• Stockholm, Sweden indie rock four-piece Girl Scout “Honey” from the debut “Headache” EP
  
• Australia’s east coast indie pop-rock brother duo Sugar Soap “Talk” single
  
• Glasgow, UK five-piece indie rock /power pop band Former Champ “Hold On” from “Vol. 2” EP
  
• Munich, Germany shoegaze /dreampop /psych /indie rock band led by Christoph Tianping Xiao, Plainhead “Sunsick” from the LP “I SPLIT MY ORGAN IN TWOS” [New Basement]
• Swedish electronic dreampop duo consisting of singer Karolina Komstedt (from the band Poprace) and electronic producer Johan Angergård (Acid House Kings, Poprace and Labrador Records founder) started in 1995, CLUB 8 “Something’s Wrong In My Head” last single from the upcoming 11th album “A Year With Club 8” [Labrador Records]
• Hamburg-based German singer-songwriter-jingle-jangle-fuzz-power-baroque-pop-wallofsound-DIY-Home-Studio-Project AKA theCatherines “Fumbleknob” from “This Is Still Good! (5th anniversary​-​edition of “This Is Good​!​”)” remastered vinyl/CD edition of  the 2029 LP “This Is Good!”
  
• Manchester, UK C86 /jangle /indie-pop quartet Autocamper “Summertime” 2-track cassette single from the 2025 debut album [Safe Suburban Home Records / Slumberland Records]
• Adelaide, Australia new wave /jangly romantic synth-pop project (formerly The New Labour), June Movement “Colours of War” from “New Mourning” EP
  
• Athens, OH four-piece post-punk /jangle indie pop band The Laughing Chimes – “High Beams” from the upcoming sophomore album “Whispers in the Speech Machine” [Slumberland Records]
• London indie noise pop duo The Tamborines – “Our Secret (Beat Happening)” from V/A “Not Like You (Volume 2: Gotta Love Someone: Midsummer Madness Celebrates Strangers)” two volumes of with 65 cover versions to celebrate 35 years of Midsummer Madness label
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK lo-fi post-punk /C86 /indie pop DIY songwriter-musician Daniel McGee, aka Zenxith “Saddest Girl In The World” off the 27th single “Saddest Girl In The World’, b/w ‘Love Respected” both off 13th album “Thursday” CD via his own label Salt Mine Records
  
• Vancouver, BC jangly pop /minimal punk DIY band Roswit “Dreamer’s Song” from the debut cassette album “Eternal Living”
  
• Victoria, BC alt-rock /shoegaze /post-punk band Shoplifter “HV” from debut EP
  
• Warsaw, Poland shoegaze /dream-pop /post-punk quartet Krysztal “Koniec magii” the third and final single from the second LP “Poświaty”
  
• Wollongong, Australia noise rock /post-punk /indie rock band CHIMERS “Everything’s Green” from the LP “THROUGH TODAY” via Poison City Records
  
• Portland, OR indie rock /minimalist punk group Woolen Men “Change Life” 8th and final WM singles Club
  
• Manchester, UK indie rock supergroup made of former The Fall members (Blue Orchids‘ Martin Bramah and Karl Burns), HOUSE Of ALL “Born At Dawn And Dead At Sunset” from the upcoming second LP “HOUSE Of ALL SOULS” [Tiny Global Productions]
• Glasgow‘s IDM /experimental /electropop band of songwriter Martin Henry (De Rosa, Whin, solo), and multi-instrumentalists Chris Connick (De Rosa, Knockout Ned) and Allan Carroll (Knockout Ned), JEWEL SCHEME “Minor Bad” from the double single “Minor Bad / You’re Not Wrong” included in the debut s/t album
  
• Brighton, UK experimental art-rock /post-rock /jazz /’orchestral cult rock’ 6-piece band Flip Top Head – “I Can’t Wait Until I’m Old” from the EP “Up Like A Weather Balloon” [Blitzcat Records]
• Goiânia, Brazil ethereal /shoegaze /dreampop band SYNX “Colagem” from the debut LP “Invent​á​rio das palavras ausentes”
  
• İstanbul, Türkiye dreampop /shoegaze band  Always, Then “Cherry (DEMO) ft. Lilyu” from “(LEAVE)” LP
  
• Los Angeles-based shoegaze /indie rock /future rock solo project of multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer Evan Engisch, aka New Aesthetic “Up Away” 2nd single from the upcoming sophomore  LP “A Life in the Arts”
  
• Limestone Coast, South Australia indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze project of guitarist-songwriter & producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “Out Of Time” single
  
• London, UK indie /dream pop 4-piece Bleach Lab “Drown” (Single)
  
• Vancouver BC-based Argentine–British dreampop /shoegaze trio Bloom Effect “TKAA” single
  
• Japanese dream-pop /shoegaze solo project project of Michael (ex. Concrete Twin /AiZA /MIRA) featuring vocalist Kai Rino (ANY‰), The Deep Sleep “Asterisk” single from the upcoming second LP [DREAMWAVES RECORDS]
• Boston, MA Shoegaze band, Still Life Sounds “Frame” from the 3-track vinyl 7″ EP “nowherestar”
  
• Seattle, WA dreampop /shoegaze /indie rock band led by Italian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrea Volpato, aka Painted Vein “My Cigarettes” from the debut LP “Dripping Only Black” [We Were Never Being Boring Collective]
  
• Nashville, TN bedroom /alternative /shoegaze /indie rock band The Sewing Club “Living Room” from “Care” EP
  
• Venice, Italy dream pop /shoegaze duo Glazyhaze “WHAT A FEELING” first single from the forthcoming 2025 second LP
  
• Chicago, IL noise rock /grungegaze band BOSSES “Thread” from “Many Worlds” EP
  
• Miami, FL emo /indie rock /dreampop /shoegaze band Winded “Wish on the mezzanine” from the double single “Wish on the mezzanine /Mercy 27”
  
• New York psych /dreampop /shoegaze band Heaven “I’ll Let You In” first single off our new LP, “DREAM ALOUD” [Little Cloud Records]
• St. Catharines, Ontario alt-rock /grunge /shoegaze band Deer Fang “Low Tide” single
  
• Philly shoegaze /psych-rock crew Heliocentric Overdrive “Burn It Down” single [Patetico Recordings]
• Hamburg-based 4-piece alternative rock /psych /indie rock /post-punk /shoegaze band Grundeis “Ignoring People” from upcoming LP “Every Second An Ocean” via UNDRESSED Records               
• Ambient /Shoegaze /Post-Rock band from Southern California, memoryloop “Earth exit” from “BEING AND NOTHINGNESS” LP 12″ [Transylvanian Recordings]
• Leeds, UK-based shoegaze /post-punk /psychedelic rock band led by Sasha Raoul, Deathtrippers “Energy Flow (O Mix)” (original demo version)
  
• Kent, UK freakbeat /garage /mod-psych trio, The Embrooks “Terry And Julie” 2-track 7″ single [Rogue Records]
• Italian garage /indie rock /psychedelic pop band Plastic Palms “Garden Get Up” single [We Were Never Being Boring Collective]
• Marseille/Bordeaux-based, French garage /power-pop band L​ù​lù “L​ù​lù” debut single via Howlin Banana Records
  
• Detroit, MI rock and roll /slacker /alt-country band Loose Koozies “Wobbly Wheel” new single from Loose Koozies’ second full-length album, “Passing Through You” [Tall Texan Records]
• Los Angeles-based folk rock project of Corey Madden (singer and guitarist of Color Green) and songwriter Ty Segall, aka Freckle “Taraval” first single from upcoming debut s/t album
  
• Italian ambient /electro-acoustic /modern classical /post-rock /spoken words artist Francesco Martinello, aka Anèdone “La grande nave (kat​à​basis)” from the CD album “Io o il mondo” [rohs! records]
• Tokyo experimental /ambient /drone /acoustic guitar-led psychedelic musician, Masami Makino “Jasmine’s Dream” from the cassette album “Omoya: Houses for the Blue Meditation” [Fort Evil Fruit]