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

• Copenhagen, Denmark noise-pop /shoegaze /indie rock duo of Casper Iskov and Mathias Risager, aka Ethics “Portraying You As A Goat (feat. Lilipine)”, 2nd single from the upcoming album.

The Danish noise-pop duo made of multi-instrumentalist Casper Iskov, precious low-key collaborator of Thierry Haliniak ( My Raining Stars, Meyverlin), and drummer Mathias Risager, featuring Polish guest vocalist Lilipine, (Fudge, Drop Nineteens), drops an early-90s shoegaze infused new single, oscillating  seamlessly between reflective, soft, to jagged, and noisy dynamics through steady off-tempo drum beats that prod the rattles of murky, gritty bass throbs and distorted grungy riffs, alternating with mood-building light bouncy strums to coalesce into a swaying wistful wave of insistent ringing and abrasive reverberations around angsty conflicted male/female dreamy layered vocal, stuck, far from reality, in double talk.

• Brisbane, Australia post-punk /shoegaze /indie rock duo Western Freeway “Swerve” title track of the new EP “Swerve”
  

The Brisbane-based experienced shoegazey Indie rock duo has kept quite a prolific release schedule in the last couple of years, with its organic highs and lows. In the latest EP “Swerve”, amid a couple of electric and acoustic (“Neil Young”) emotional ballads, is the 90s Guided by Voices-tinged title track that stands out, propelled by a relentless skittering drumming shuffles with thick and bendy distorted, at times wailing, guitar riffs, to wave a building fuzzy haze of lingering tension around long drawn out, regretful vocals fretting about broken promises and unpaid debt in an inner loop where there is too much noise.

• Manchester, UK grunge /fuzzy noise-rock /punk trio THE EMPTY PAGE “When We Gonna Run?” single
  

One of the most electrifying and rousing songs of the week, rife with unrestrained punky energy, Mancunian grit and blistering hooks. In preparation for leaving a pre-apocalyptic hellscape (aka 2025), where all sense of belonging has fallen away, “When We Gonna Run?” compels an adrenaline rush of walloping drums, thrumming bass lines, along with jagged, ringing guitars, to relentlessly pierce frightened, emotional female vocals, swaying dramatically from raw pain-filled angst to helpless gloom, whilst clinging on to an idealized notion of love.

• Los Angeles-based ambient /drone /shoegaze /ethereal /meditative /soundscape /dream pop solo project of Cynthia Bernard, aka Marine Eyes “Eleven Years” from “Morning will come” EP
  
• London ambient /electro-acoustic folk project Horses “I’m Doing Fine” from the debut LP “Every Dumb Thing I Ever Did” [ECSTATIC]
• Warsaw, Poland ambient /industrial /experimental folk /leftfield electronic sound artist, composer, music producer, Lubomir Grzelak, aka Lutto Lento “2568 (with Antonina Nowacka & children’s choir)” from “2568” E.P. [meakusma]
• Southern Sweden pop ambient /modern classical /electronica duo of pianist Filip Forsström and singer Linnea Hall, Ljudvägg & Hall “För oss nu (AKB Remix)” [Lamour Records]
• York, England lo-fi /experimental /noise /psychedelic /slacker country /outsider folk duo fronted by Reuben Pugh (Needlework),  Troutflies “Paper Farmers” from the cassette album “The Dancing Years” [All Gone]
• Mexico City lo-fi /minimal /folkgaze /indie folk singer-songwriter Chris Marks, aka Lake Michigan “San Diego Flight Paths” from upcoming LP “An Orchid” [Sports Bar Records]
• Malmö, Southern Sweden indie pop /indie folk singer-songwriter Daniel Katz, aka Quiet Commotion “Vårvisa” 2nd single from upcoming LP “Spring” [Dream On]
• Switzerland alternative pop /indie folk pop singer-songwriter Fiona Fiasco “Stacy” 1st single from the debut EP “Blue Rider, Blue Faced“
  
• UK-based collaborative indie pop project of veteran musician James Hackett (vocalist and lyricist of The Orchids), and multi-instrumentalist and composer Mark Tranmer (GNAC and half of The Montgolfier Brothers), Vetchinsky Settings “In The Evening Light” single
  
• Montpellier, France electronic /dream pop /indie pop singer-songwriter Frank Rabeyrolles “All Is in Your Head” from the upcoming 2026 LP “Slow” [Too Good To Be True]
• Los Angeles bedroom pop /electronic /indie pop duo Sit Stay “Rollercoaster” from the debut “If There Were a Way to Set You Free” album
  
• Pittsburgh, PA Indie /Dream Pop duo Shampoo Tears “I Wanted You To Know” from “Lonely World” EP [Shore Dive Records]
• Brighton, UK neo-acoustic /indie pop band led by songwriter Dick Preece, aka Lovejoy “I Dream of Angels” from “Sentimental Memories” EP 12th of Too Good To Be True label’s 3″CD EP series (originally appeared on Matinée Recordings in 2000–2001) [Too Good To Be True / Snowbound]
• London, UK-based psych /kraut /melodic indie pop band led by wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass (The Melons) and Tim Vass (Razorcuts), Silver Biplanes “Winter” from “SNOWFLAKE 38: Snowflake Christmas Singles Club” 2-track 7” single [Precious Recordings of London / Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club]
• Massachusetts-based jangle indie pop duo Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith, aka Jeanines “Till I See Your Star Tonight”, new ltd. 7″ single [Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club]
• Welsh dreamy synth-pop musician (former member of the indie-pop group The Pipettes), Gwenno “Utopia (Cornelius Remix)” off “Utopia Remixes” EP [Heavenly Recordings]
• Glasgow, UK indie rock /folk singer-songwriter Kim Grant, aka Raveloe “Rockface” single
  
• Racibórz, Poland post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop solo music project Drive Slower “Drowning (feat. Septembie)” from “II” EP
  
• Spain-based cinematic dream pop singer-songwriter April June “Godspeed” (produced by Richie Quake) single [Nettwerk]
• Lisbon, Portugal shoegaze /indie /dream pop band led by Guilherme Machado Correia, Hause Plants “Austin (feat. Ducks Ltd.)” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Spain-based cinematic dream pop singer-songwriter April June “Godspeed” (produced by Richie Quake) single [Nettwerk]
• Racibórz, Poland post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop solo music project Drive Slower “Drowning (feat. Septembie)” from “II” EP
  
• Salisbury, UK 60s /power pop /jangle indie pop band led by Oliver Flanagan, aka Sorry Monks “(It’s Just The) End Of The Year (2025 Version)”
  
• Michigan-based DIY indie pop solo project of England-born songwriter and musician Sean Turner, aka The Photocopies “With A Boy Like You” from “Radio Activity, Volume 4” EP
  
• Makassar, Indonesia indie pop band The Interpretation Cultures “Heavenly” from V/A “We’ll never carry up the charts but we’ll be the indie stars☆” CDr compilation [A Single Kiss!]
• Leicester, UK indie guitar pop side project of Shopfires‘ Neil Hill, aka NEUCLOUDS “Always The One Missing Out” from the collection of previously released singles “Neuclouds” [Subjangle]
• Perth, Western Australia-based alternative /jangle /indie pop five-piece Gap Year “The Lane” from the second album “In Light” [Blue Grey Pink]
• Bristol, UK indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop band, Stay Lunar “Pull the Rug” single
  
• Norfolk, VA dream-sludge /shoegaze /twang-gaze band Shower Cry “Beaker” off the debut LP “FOR THOSE WHO’VE LOST EVERYTHING THEY LOVE” [Swarm Wave Records]
• Leeds, UK-based indie rock-pop band Tulpa “Pyro” off the debut LP “Monster Of The Week” [Skep Wax Records]
• British short-lived indie noise pop band formed in 1985, Jim’s Twenty-one “Out Of Reach” (previously unreleased) from “Nadine” CD compilation of the only 1987 EP plus unreleased and live tracks (1985-89) [Harriet Records]
• Gothenburg, Sweden 4-piece post-punk /dreampop /indie rock band, Makthaverskan “Pity Party” single [Welfare Sounds & Records]
• Worthing, UK-based fuzz pop /indie rock solo project of ex-lead singer of Adorable and Polak, Pete Fiji “Love’s Coming Back” ltd. 7″ single [Tip Top Recordings]
• Pittsburgh-based shoegaze /darkwave /dreampop /post-punk band of Shane Sahene and Bobby Spell, formed in 1994, Lowsunday “Love Language” from “Low sunday ghost machine white” EP, first collection of all-new material since 1999 [Projekt Records]
• Italian/Norwegian indie rock /avant-kraut-gaze esoteric collective led by Marco Campitelli, OSLO TAPES “Tribe Telepathy” from the new album “LÅST COMET”
  
• Porto, Portugal experimental psych-pop /shoegaze band Summer of Hate “Alem” 2nd single from upcoming double LP “BLOOD & HONEY” [Tee Pee Records]
• Malaysia‘s alternative rock /dream pop /shoegaze band, Heavëner “Turning Melancholy To Magic” single
  
• Milwaukee, WI 5-piece dream pop /shoegaze band Shrinestone “Twenty Points (Golden Age)” from “Kismet And Blank” EP
  
• Sheffield, UK alternative /shoegaze band Plasticine “Stay Awake (Shed Demo 2025)” first single
  
• Manchester, UK indie rock /shoegaze solo project of Duvet guitarist Tasmin Stephens, aka TTSSFU “Upstairs” single [Partisan Records]
• Christchurch, NZ indie rock /shoegaze /dream-pop project of Annemarie Duff (ex Miniatures), aka T. G. Shand “Levitating The Knife” new single
  
• Chicago, IL alt-rock /shoegaze /indie rock band led by Sylvia Koch-Weser, aka Lithia “The Mire” single
  
• Zurich, Switzerland dream pop /shoegaze trio Zabriskie “South Pacific” first single off the new ep
  
• Denver, Colorado Shoegaze /Indie Dream Rock quintet Cherished “Slow Tear” from the upcoming EP
  
• Rome, Italy alternative rock /dream pop /shoegaze solo project Electric Illusionist “Tonight” single
  
• Bilbao, Spain noise rock /post-rock /shoegaze musical project of Paule Bilbao, ARIMA “Zarata” from the EP “Ez dago amor”
  
• Mexico City alternative rock /heavy gaze /shoegaze band DAZED “Blade” from “Umbra” EP
  
• Toronto, Canada 5-piece indie rock /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band Fires of Cheektowaga “Carry Me Up” lead single from the upcoming “Limbics” EP
  
• New York-based folk /indie rock /power pop twin duo Brian and Michael D’Addario, AKA The Lemon Twigs – “I’ve Got A Broken Heart” ltd. 2-track 7″ single [Captured Tracks]
• Manhattan, NY-bred veteran rock’n’roll /power-pop musician Ronnie D’Addario “Not Today (feat. The Lemon Twigs)” from upcoming 12th LP “Written By” (produced by The Lemon Twigs)
  
• Paris-based 5-piece proto-punk /krautrock /psychedelia /noise rock band Dééfait “We Love Each Other So Much That We Won’t Belong To Any Species Anymore” from the upcoming debut s/t EP [Ici, d’ailleurs]
• Brooklyn, NY-based home recording lo-fi fuzzy folk /outsider noise pop /ìndie rock project Inland Years “Make You Feel Better” from the live EP “The Bunker Sessions”
  
• Fujisawa, Japan ambient /dub /folk /psychedelic /electronic trio Maya Ongaku “Maybe Psychic” 7″ single [Guruguru Brain]
• Collaborative project between Glasgow‘s kraut /psychedelic rock band Helicon and Los Angeles-based trip-hop /electronic producer-DJ Al Lover, Helicon x Al Lover “Backbreaker” 2nd single from upcoming album “Arise” [Fuzz Club Records]
• Bergen, Norway 60s garage rock band Nix & the Nothings “Midnite Fever” from “Midnite Fever / Are You Real” single
  
• Southern California five-piece 60s freakbeat /R&B /psych /garage rock band The Violet Mindfield “From The Gutter With Love” ltd. 7″EP [Rogue Records] Michigan indie pop outfit The Legal Matters “Everybody Knows” single from the new 2026 album “LOST AT SEA” [Big Stir Records]
• Perth, Australia retro soundtrack /dream pop /new wave /dungeon synth /synthwave musical outlet of Paul Fanning (from the band Turnstyle), Fantastic Quest “Life, what is it but a Dream” from the synth-driven themed album “Alice in Wonderland”
  
• Jakarta, Indonesia acid house /kraut /dream-pop /electropop /avant-pop band Strange Fruit “Iridescent” from upcoming EP “Drips” [Gentle Tuesday Recordings]
• English Acid Jazz godfather Chris Bangs and keyboard maestro Mick Talbot, aka Bangs & Talbot “Smokin’ Aces” title track of the upcoming second LP “Smokin’ Aces” [Acid Jazz Records]
• French indie electro pop /folk artist Dame Gertrude “ZIG ZAG (feat Lili)” from “Personnage secondaire” EP [La Souterraine]
• London-based acoustic finger-style guitar folk singer-songwriter Roberta Smith “I Am Alone” from “Textile Lemonade” LP
  
• Hong Kong electronic /R&B/indie pop singer-songwriter and producer Cehryl “Diamond Hill (Demo)” from “Electric Road Demos” EP
  
• US ambient/ritual /psychedelic /folk singer-songwriter (In Gowan Ring), Birch Book “Secret Garden” from upcoming “Vol. IV: Casting Lines – A Museum Of Memory” album [INFINITE FOG PRODUCTIONS]
• Bristol, UK ambient /drone /dream pop /folk improvisational one-take recordings at Jabu home studio featuring Jabu members Guest & Amos Childs with Leeds‘ musician Teresa Winter, and NYC-based Nate Kinsella (Birthmark), aka Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs “3” from the s/t album [do you have peace?]
• Leicester, UK-based ambient /drone /electronica /post-rock  solo project of Jon Attwood (1/2 of Jarr), aka Yellow6 “Burning a hole” from the CDr album “LINES” 27th installment of the merry6mas series [merry6mas 2025]

photo by Todd Weaver