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

• Canadian-based alternative rock /shoegaze /trip-hop /dream pop duo Palm Haze “Cassie Underground” single
  

The Canadian eclectic atmospheric shoegazing duo is constantly able to shuffle their nuanced sound palette deftly finding an unpredictable and intriguing songwriting style. The new single pulses on crisp repetitive rhythms to drive emotive floating guitar sways, casting introspective dim, wistful impressions while alternating with edgy fuzz-laden riffs and forlorn distorted licks, to surround breathy, slightly elated, vocals, with waves of nostalgic longing for lost intimacy

• Queens, New York indie /shoegaze /dream pop four-piece Iceblynk “Plummet” 2-track single
  

New York shoegazers’ new single ponders how we accept the worldview given to us without hesitation or thought, while triggering urgent stumbling drums to drive through a rippling agonizing vortex of ringing guitar distortion, hanging over fragile heartfelt vocals struggling to radiate through the disorienting haze.

• Grenoble, France ambient /indie rock /slowcore band Proto “Peur bleue” from upcoming cassette album “Maintenance” [Hidden Bay Records]

Southeastern France newcomer blends taut, emotive 90s guitar leanings with introspective slowcore ambience. The first glimpse from the debut LP races all the way through on motorik beats alongside punchy elastic basslines, slowed down by scattered interludes of sizzling, sharp-edged ringing guitar slivers and restrained, droning distortions, while aloof yet restless spoken words release imagined fear amid the anxiety of being left alone.

• UK ambient /drone /ethereal /dreamcore /meditation /electronic sound artist Simon Vince, aka HERE “Deity” from the upcoming CDr album “The Totality Of Existing Things” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• London‘s ’90s iconic ambient /IDM /post-rock /shoegaze /electronic band Seefeel “As X Is Y” from the album “Squared Roots” [Warp Records]
• Sheffield, UK ambient /prog /dream pop /folk project of Duncan Sumpner, Songs Of Green Pheasant “Have Patience” off double A-side single “Have Patience​/​Street of Mirrors” a preview of the 2025 LP “Sings The Passing” [Rusted Rail]
• Swansea, Wales psych indie folk songwriter Tom Emlyn – “Lightweight” from V/A “When I Survive” fundraising Palestine compilation
  
• Edinburgh, UK analog /strings /folk songwriter and musician Ian Humberstone “Between Two Births” from the album “Midsummer Tideline” (second volume in the DVRC Lantern Series) 
  
• London-based C86 /punk /psych /indie rock band founded in the early 90s, led by David Feck, COMET GAIN “AN ORCHID STUCK IN HER THROAT” from “WINTERTIME GHOSTS” LP (a wintertime fragile acoustic ice re-imaging and re-telling of 2014 LP “Paperback Ghosts”)
  
• UK ambient /ethereal /dreampop /haunting /psychedelic musician and composer Jodie Lowther “The Ice Garden” title track of “The Ice Garden” EP [The Cat Collects]        
• Switzerland-based prolific ambient /experimental /synth /electronic musician Rupert Lally “A Stealth Approach (featuring Scanner)” from the CD album “Interzones” [Mortality Tables]
• Australian-born, Oakland-based folk /dream pop /indie rock pop artist Hazel English “Jesse feat. Day Wave (Acoustic)”
  
• New York electronic /dream pop /dark wave /synthpop solo project R. Missing “Knife Shook Your Hand” title track of the single collection LP “Knife Shook Your Hand”
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden Balearic /deep house /cosmic /leftfield /electronic musician Datasal, The Embassy – “Amnesia” from “D​-​Numbers: Datasal plays The Embassy” LP (Datasal‘s reinterpretation of Swedish indie/Balearic outfit The Embassy‘s 2023 modern classic “E-Numbers”) 12″ [Dream On]
• Irish shoegaze /dream rock guitarist and songwriter Keeley Moss, KEELY “Forever Froze (Magus Mix)” [Tiny Global Productions]
• New York dubstep /bass /industrial electronic pop trio Kassie Krut “Hooh Beat” from the debut s/t EP [Fire Talk]
• Leeds, UK indie /electronic /synth-pop band (FKA Girl One And The Grease Guns), Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators “Canal Wharf” from the album “Leisure Complex Variations : Part 1” [Next Phase : Normal Records]
• Philadelphia-based, Cork, Ireland-bred electronic /experimental pop multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Sanche Ramirez, aka The Santo Casúr “This lossless world” from “Our Memory Returns In Pieces” EP
  
• California alt-country /dream pop /slowcore /indie folk duo Ruby Haunt “Dogpile” first single from the upcoming 2025 LP
  
• Philadelphia‘s lo-fi /slowcore /shoegaze /indie folk outfit KNIFEPLAY “Spirit Echo” 2-track single
  
• Melbourne‘s experimental /ambient /electronic /country /acoustic folk duo of Nigel Yang & Jonnine Standish aka HTRK, “Double Virgo – Rent Boy (HTRK Cover)” (HTRK covered by DV of Bar Italia) from HTRK‘s “String Of Hearts” EP [Ghostly International]
• Denver, CO electronic /downtempo /psychedelic Legendary Pink Dots side project featuring Erik Drost and Randall Frazier of the Dots, Orbit Service “Paulstraat” off the album “Leave for Good”
  
• Chicago, IL lo-fi electronic pop project of singer-songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone), Advance Base “Little Sable Point Lighthouse” from the album “Horrible Occurrences” [Run For Cover Records]
• US folk psychedelic pop band led by Connecticut-bred longtime musical friends and collaborators Barrett Jones and Dave Junker, Fantastic Purple Spots “Flowerland” from “Spotsylvanian Lullabies” EP [ATHRecords]
• Croydon, UK chamber pop /baroque rock /power-pop songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Nick Frater “One Minute” off upcoming 12th studio LP “Oh Contraire” [Think Like A Key Music]
• Melbourne, Australia lo-fi /power pop /indie rock band Farewell Horizontal “Deep Fryer In My Stomach” from “Let There Be Loud” LP
  
• Los Angeles twee /C86 /shoegaze /noise-pop band Sugar World “(You Broke My Heart) On Christmas Eve” from the upcoming EP “A Sugar Christmas Vol​.​2” CD [Sunday Records]
• Swansea, UK indie-pop outfit of ex-The Pooh Sticks Hue Williams and Amelia Fletcher, plus Rob Pursey and Ian Button, aka Swansea Sound “(I Wanna Wear A) MIrrored Hat Like Slade” 2-track Christmas single [Skep Wax]
• UK 4-piece Creation Records indie-rock legends The Loft “Got A Job” from 2-track 7″ single “Dr. Clarke / Got A Job” (A-side will be included in the forthcoming Tapete Records LP “Everything Changes Everything Stays The Same”) [Precious Recordings of London]
• Paisley, Scotland jangly /guitar pop band THE MULDOONS “Gone Too Far” from the debut album “We Saw The View” [Last Night From Glasgow]
• Belfast, Northern Ireland bedroom /indie jangle-pop project of former Cruising and Girls Names, Neil Brogan “Last Minute Christmas List” from “Christmas 2024” 2-track single
  
• Central Java, Indonesia lo-fi jangle indie pop solo project Anti “Paradoks” from the album “All My Little Words” [Faster Records]
• Perth, Australia jangly indie ‘antisocial-pop’ band Teen Angst “wuwu” first single from Teen Angst’s upcoming EP “Cerulean”
  
• Leicester, UK indie jangle pop solo recording project of Neil Hill (aka Newclouds), aka Shopfires “I’m Not Coming Home Tonight” single
  
• Athens, Greek dream pop /indie pop trio The Model Spy “Three Dots You” from the second album “Impairment and Disability” [Make Me Happy Records / Fastcut Records]
• Indonesian indie twee pop band Tamankota – “Duniaku” from the collection of never released singles “The Lost Demos (2009 – 2010)” CDr [Chaotic Pop Recs]
• Austin, TX twee pop /indie rock band, I wear your chain “Pretty Pattern” from “Demo” EP (2024)
  
• Greenock, Scottish C86, jangle, DIY indie pop sister duo The Cords “Favourite Time” Ltd. flexi Christmas single [Heavenly Creature / Slumberland Records]
• Ngawi, East Java dream pop /shoegaze /jangle indie pop band Dust “Numb” from the first “I Hate Dust” EP [Faster Records]
• Bristol, UK-based post-C86 /indie pop band (made up of members from The Candy Darlings and Mousefolk), Candymouse “I Am Not here” from the debut album “The Light Just Bends” [Old Bad Habits Label]
• London-based shoegaze /dream punk /doom pop duo Rain Cloud Nine “Anemone” single
  
• New Jersey indie /shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Skot Kremen “Ponder” from the 2-track single “Remember”
  
• Seattle ambient /dream pop /shoegaze project Wasting “Shadow dance” single
  
• South Side of Chicago‘s post-rock /dream pop /Indie 4-piece Almost There But Not Really “So Slow” from the first EP “singmetosleep”
  
• Limestone Coast, South Australia indie rock /shoegaze /dreampop brainchild of Guitarist, Songwriter, and Producer Dave Thomas, Hey Calamity “Fallen Trees” single
  
• Lisbon, Portugal ambient /shoegaze /dream pop solo project of Ricardo Fiel, aka Moon Cowboy “Baby Jane” from “An Explosion of Sound” EP
  
• Hackney, London indie rock /shoegaze 4-piece Cheerless “Demoncore” from the s/t EP
  
• Chicago, IL goth /shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop singer-songwriter Alessia Kato, aka Ghost Days “does it hurt” from the cassette EP “Cemetery Rose”
  
• Philadelphia-based indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop solo project  DAODA “Shields (2024 Mix)” the 5th single from the forthcoming EP, “2024 Mixes: A Collection of Songs 2014–2017“
  
• Dream pop /Shoegaze collaborative project between NYC‘s post-punk musician postlooperish and Virginia‘s singer & songwriter Melanie Ann, aka Shades of Violette “Save Some for Me ” from V/A “Star Sailors: A ShoeGaze & DreamPop Compilation Vol. 3” album
  
• Los Angeles based shoegaze /indie rock band Diffident Daffodils “Desolation Calls” from the album “Indifferent”
  
• Stuttgart, Germany indie rock /shoegaze solo project FRIEDRICH “Glauben” from the debut EP “Lieben und Zerst​ö​ren”
  
• Zhuhai, China ambient /dream pop /shoegaze band Muse Deconstruct “Iris” from “My Lonely Perfection” EP CD [雨模様Amemoyo]
• Seattle, WA-based three-piece indie rock /shoegaze band Waves Crashing “Parts Of Me” single [Audiomanic Records]
• Fort Collins, Colorado‘s alternative rock /shoegaze duo Gleemer “Proving Honest” off “End of the Nail” LP [Other People Records]
• Los Angeles-based 4-piece alternative rock /grunge /shoegaze band Bad Light “Little Misery” single
  
• Bangkok, Thailand based alt-rock /dreampop /shoegaze band Slowwves “Sen” debut single
• Ontario indie rock /grunge /shoegaze band Deer Fang – “Gone” single
• Fort Wayne, Indiana dream pop /shoegaze foursome Seventh Cloud “Swan” single
  
• Italian indie /dream pop /shoegaze solo project of Michele Cingolani, AKA Waving Blue “No more cigarettes” from the forthcoming 2025 album “Fake Love Desire”
  
• Doncaster, UK 4-piece psych /space rock /shoegaze band 93MillionMilesFromTheSun “Lacher” from the album ”Let Go” [1991 Recordings]
• UK ambient /electronic /shoegaze audio-visual artist CUTS “Stillborn” single
  
• Greenville, North Carolina noise /grunge /shoegaze band Bluegill “Empty” single
  
• Toulouse, France ambient /post-metal /shoegaze /blackgaze project Soaring “Sun” from the upcoming debut s/t LP [Stellar Frequencies] Stellar Frequencies
  
• Australian drone-rock /garage /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band based in Sydney, Grinding Eyes “We Move Slowly”, the first single from the upcoming LP “Out Of Focus” [Little Cloud Records (US) / Poison City Records (AUS)]
• Early ’80s Edinburgh, Scottish 60s-style fuzz /garage punk /psychedelic rock (pre-Thanes) band The Green Telescope “Who Knows? (session)” from the upcoming “Andy Kershaw session 23​.​01​.​86″ EP 10” [Precious Recordings of London]
• Rome, Italian kraut electro psych rock outfit Big Mountain County “Going Down” from the third LP “Deep Drives” [Sister 9 Recordings]
• Veteran UK 60s /Soul /R’n’B /Latin Jazz/Funk /Bongo-Hammond-Fuzz dance project of self-taught musician and Big Boss Man member (aka Big Boss Sound), Nasser Bouzida “Mr Bongo Man” 7″ vinyl single [Spinout Nuggets]
• California soft /dream /psych /gaze /dark-sunshine-pop project of multi-instrumentalists Philippe Andre and Adam Sabolick, aka Double Wish “Soft Skin” from upcoming EP “Deeper Ecstasy”
  
• Atlanta-based alt-indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Becca Harvey, aka Girlpuppy “Champ” single [Captured Tracks]
• Brooklyn, NY-based Americana /dream pop /indie rock Texan band led by Blair Howerton, aka Why Bonnie “Rainbows and Ridges” single [Fire Talk]
• Nashville, TN-based composer, improviser and banjo player from South Georgia, Kelby Clark “Language of the Torch” title track of the LP “Language of the Torch” [Tentative Power]
• UK ambient pop /minimal techno /dub house solo project of Andrew Johnson (aka Septemberist, and former member of the bands Hood, The Remote Viewer, Famous Boyfriend and On Fell), A New Line (Related) “Only Star Loop” from the third album “A Quarterly Update On The Sadness” CDr [Sound In Silence]