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

• Jakarta, Indonesian indie noise pop band, Vanishing Muffins – “Hit You With Snowball” from V/A “A polaroid for Christmas 2025” Christmas compilation for Gaza Soup Kitchen [“Memoria polaroid” – un blog alla radio]

The notable Italian Polaroid Blog has set up its usual juicy Christmas compilation, with tons of DIY pop bands to relish. All the proceeds will be donated to the Gaza Soup Kitchen. The motivation is double, don’t miss out!

• Madison, Wisconsin folk /jangle indie pop quintet Gentle Brontosaurus “Luxury Bones” first single from the third 2026 album, “Three Hares”
  

Some may remember Madison‘s band, with a couple of brilliant albums to their name, the last one about seven years ago, featuring a sun-kissed, catchy guitar sound that skirts between effervescent jangle-indie-twee pop harmonies and stirring folk nostalgia, reminiscent of Camera Oscura and Belle and Sebastian. Immediate, sweet, and jaunty, the single swings along midtempo rhythms with sparkling, crystalline guitars and flickering, searing licks, around grateful, bright female vocals, strained with slight angst, embracing a non-glamorous job with good benefits.

• California cosmic Americana guitarist and songwriter Alvin Piranhas (Beachwood Sparks, Fighter Jet, Farmer Dave & The Wizards of West), Benji Knight “Blue Belief” from the double A-single “Blue Belief b/w Spider In The Sun” (first song recorded at the Ventura sessions, featuring nearly all of Farmer Dave & the Wizards of the West, with most of Pacific Range and Gerard Love of Lightships, Teenage Fanclub) [Curation Records]

Wafting on sun-dappled West Coast scents, and soul-stirring tuneful lyricism, an extraordinarily mellow and heartfelt ballad from the experienced guitarist-DJ-composer and notable friends, radiates a cosmic breath that inebriates mind and heart with mesmerizing wanders of glistening arpeggiated guitar melodies, and earnest layered male vocal harmonies, singing about ‘the sunny blue belief in you’ whilst spraying out an emotional complexity through a distorted, brushed, slightly abrasive, coda. Absolutely sublime.

• Gangneung, South Korea shoegaze band trishé “Underwater” off debut single “Glare / Underwater” [Lilies in Water Records]

South Korean Shoegaze outfit debuts with a double A-side single that dips into a boundless guitar-laden sea overflowing with a heavy enveloping bulk of fuzz and distortion through a balanced harmonization of seething noise and emotive introspective melodies. We prefer precisely for the latter facet “Underwater”, where relentless drums flounder and stumble in thick, abrasive layers of dreamy droning feedback that slowly floats and spills outward into a turbulent, misty flow pierced with high-pitched, sibilant reverberations, to almost fully wash over throaty, radiating male vocals, echoing, mantra-like, in a swirling motion of sad yet hopeful emotional catharsis.

• Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /dream pop artist Hollie Kenniff “Come What May” single [Nettwerk]
• London-based ambient /experimental /drone pop Kernow-bred songwriter and musician Mazy Day “Centre Everything” single
  
• Sydney, Australia synthpop /dream pop solo project of Melisa Bester, aka Headaches “Yuzu in the Sun” from “Looking For Something New” EP [dottidot]
• Baltimore, MD veteran lo-fi /bedroom pop /indie pop cassette artist (member of 80s post-punk band The Woods), Linda Smith “In The Silence” single
  
• Glasgow-based dream pop /indie folk artist of Indian heritage, Radhika “Starry Eyes” ft Gerard Love (Lightships/ex-Teenage Fanclub) & Mitch Mitchell (The Pastels) from the forthcoming 2026 debut album “CINE POP” [Glass Modern]
• San Francisco indie pop singer-songwriter Cassidy Frost, aka Get Lost Cassidy Frost “Like I Did Before” single
  
• London-based synth-pop solo project by Marianthi, one-half of the Greek duo Marsheaux, MeLLLo “YouNG AgaiN” single
  
• NYC darkwave /dream pop /synth-pop duo of vocalist Sharon Shy and musician Toppy (Henry Frost), R. Missing “Like the Sound of Injured Love” title track of the LP “Like the Sound of Injured Love”
  
• Pittsburgh new-wave /post-punk /synthwave solo act Noirxheart “Mass Surveillance” single
  
• Bandung, Indonesia Indie Pop trio Beltigs “Onishi Park” single
  
• Leicester, UK-based DIY jangle /indie pop solo recording DIY project of Neil Hill, aka Shopfires “We Could Fall Apart” single
  
• UK-based folk /jangle /indie pop husband and wife duo Carl and Kat Mann, aka Shapes Like People “Under the Rainbow”, 2nd single from the upcoming LP
  
• Scotland DIY veteran indie rock /jangle /guitar pop singer-songwriter (Superstar, Boy Hairdressers, BMX Bandits, Linden, Groovy Little Numbers), Joe McAlinden “Oh Winter Sun” first in a series of songs written and recorded for his Home Studio Musician™ DIY sessions
  
• Glasgow‘s psych /new wave /indie rock band (members of Lung Leg, Ganger, Spread Eagle, Keatons, Sound of Yell), Normal Service “Cut” from “Song For Swinging Lovers” 7inch EP
  
• San Francisco indie rock /jangle /indie pop band led by Julian Elorduy (Mayyors, Fine Steps), Julian Never “Push” from the upcoming LP “Everyday Is Purgation” [Mt.St.Mtn.]
• Queens, NY indie pop solo project of singer-songwriter John Dunbar (A Confederacy Of Dunces, The John Sally Ride), aka The Elbow Patches “The Day Got Away From Me” from “Achingly Familiar” LP (originally composed for an album by The John Sally Ride)
  
• French shoegaze /dreampop /retrowave /indie pop band and Oper-8‘s side project Fake Luxury “Late to the party” single [Hotch Potch Records]
• Jatinangor, Indonesia indiepop band, Well Whale “Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets” from S/T EP “Well Whale”
  
• Glasgow‘s jangle indie-pop duo James Hindle & Calvin Halliday, aka U.S.Highball “I Want a Beatle for Christmas”
  
• Indonesian indie noise pop band The Pure “I Want You” from “Wasted Years” LP [Faster Records]
• Los Angeles-based power pop /Britpop /baggy /indie pop solo project of Ben Cook (FKA Young Governor, Young Guv), Guv “Warmer Than Gold” 2nd single from “Warmer Than Gold” LP [Run For Cover Records]
• Fort Wayne, Indiana indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze band Leones “Follow and feel” from “What if I can’t” EP
  
• Hiroshima, Japanese indie rock /shoegaze solo project Kinoue64 – 架空線 – from 架空生活 EP
  
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia dream pop /shoegaze band Suurrr “Dimlight” single
  
• Italian noise /dream pop /shoegaze duo (aka Monotone), Kimi & Fra “Unbelieving” from V/A “Fedayn At Night: The Resistance Will Never Stop” fundraiser for Palestine compilation [Soft Chroma Recordings]         
• Detroit shoegaze /dream-pop /indie rock solo project Vary Landers “Forget The Fingerprints” single
  
• Richmond, VA shoegaze solo project of Tony Gloom (Petrified Entity), aka Choline “Locked Up in a Vault” from “Siphon Your Tears” EP
  
• Philadelphia shoegaze /dream pop band led by Tom Lugo (Stellarscope), Panophonic “Starless Skies” from the EP “The Edge Of Everything” [Patetico Recordings]
• Spencer, Iowa alt-rock /fuzz /shoegaze band PURPLISH “Dreaming” title track of the new EP
  
• Petaling Jaya, Malaysia alternative rock /shoegaze band AURUMN “falling for you” from “close to me” EP
  
• Los Angeles dream pop /shoegaze band Draag “Miracle Drug” single [Smoking Room]
• Lorient, France emo /shoegaze band Trainfantome “Here The Mermaids Play” from the upcoming 2026 album [Flippin’ Freaks / Howlin Banana / Influenza Records]
• Heidelberg, Germany Dream Pop /Shoegaze duo The Virginia Planes “Cause Of Last Summer (Vierspur Remix)”
  
• Ottawa, Canada shoegaze /indie rock /grunge duo SOFTCULT “Queen Of Nothing” single from 2026 debut LP “When A Flower Doesn’t Grow” [Easy Life Records]
• Garage /krautrock /shitgaze /indie punk project of Los Angeles-based artist Jeff Kleinman, aka Begging Dog “Laughing Boy” from debut “DEMO 1” LP [Dais]
• Saskatoon, Canada grunge-space-psychedelic rock band The Radiation Flowers “Dream On Daydreamer” from “Too Much To Dream” LP
  
• Zürich, Switzerland garage /neo-psychedelic rock band Temple Solaire “Rebel” from the 2026 album “Past Due” [Taxi Gauche Records]
• Texas Fuzz Garage /Psychedelic Rock band The Albinos “Memphis Moon” 2-track single
  
• UK R&B /Garage Rock band featuring Gus Claudius (Billy Childish), General Ginger Chunks (Wolf Howard), & Ron Drand (Bruce Brand) [bastard offspring of The Downliners sect], Children Of The Sect “Bo Diddley’s a Serial Killer” debut single [Damaged Goods Records]
• Los Angeles indie rock /art punk four-piece Sunday Mourners “Careers In Acting” from the debut album, “A-Rhythym Absolute” [Curation Records]
• French noise /indie rock quartet Nastyjoe “Hole in the picture” 4th and final single from “The House” LP [A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records]
• Santa Cruz, CA indie /guitar pop /punk /power pop band AUTOS “Drive” Xmas glam stomper from V/A “Dandy Christmas ’25” Dandy Boy Records‘ holiday compilation CD LP
  
• Boston, MA indie rock singer-guitarist-songwriter (Blake Babies co-founder), Juliana Hatfield “Constant Companion” from “Lightning Might Strike” LP [American Laundromat Records]
• Bordeaux-based garage /indie rock band, Pretty Inside “Fiction Addiction” from the second LP “Ever Gonna Heal” [Flippin’ Freaks Records]
• Philadelphia, PA pop punk /indie rock band Remember Sports “Cut Fruit” from upcoming LP “Refrigerator” [Father/Daughter Records]
• Seattle-based folkotronica /art pop trio led by Carolyn B., aka Mt Fog – “Look Inside” from the upcoming “Every Stone is Green” LP [Ghost Mountain Records]
• Amsterdam-based, Turkish funk /folk /psych-groove quintet Altın Gün ‎– “ Neredesin Sen”, first single of the forthcoming sixth studio album “Garip”, a collection of songs all originally written by Turkish folk legend Neşet Ertaş [Glitterbeat Records]
• Barcelona emo /indie rock trio Walking Lands – “The Water Holds Me” from upcoming “Split” EP with Shonen Bat [Repetidor]
• Portland, OR slowcore /folk /indie rock solo project of Joel Lane, Goodnight House – “Heavy Sway” from V/A “START THE TRACK: VOL. IX” compilation [Start-Track]
• Toronto, Ontario experimental indie art rock duo Deliluh “Under Two Moons” from “Under Two Moons / Jaws Of Desire” single
  
• Northumberland, UK ambient /drone /kraut /folk /psychedelic rock project started in 1985 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist G.W.Lang, aka St James Infirmary “Waiting For My Manger” from V/A “A Wormhole Xmas 2025” LP [Wormhole World]