ToTw 826: Lene 3000 (NO) "Body Language". Ethereal. Dreamy. Synth-based, gothic, full of retro-vibes. Darkwave perhaps. In any case it’s brittle, melancholic, powerful and very pretty. Once you’ve experienced Lene, you won’t forget it. #indie#darkwaveyoutu.be/EVr-H5uMc8U?si=NoJg…
ToTw 726: 100% consensus this week. Not going out on a limb saying Boy With Apple (Gothenburg, Sweden) is our #1 indie/shoegaze hope right now. Jangly, twisted, skewed, ethereal. Aussie feels. DIIV, Alvvays and Embassy? Mostly DIIV right? #indie#shoegazeyoutube.com/watch?v=vLmsL0m7…
ToTw 826: Once again it's Sweden's Boy With Apple, with "Outside My Window". The whole album, Navigation, is brilliant. Jangly skewed guitars, ethereal vocals, alarming guitar walls. Space-exploring bliss. youtube.com/watch?v=ooM-TdFl…#indie#shoegaze
ToTw 626: @makthaverskan69 “Shatter” (Gothenburg, Sweden). Noisy indie with that charming GBG sound, melting my heart. Real and honest. Mixed with classic 60s Spotnicks, it works. With AI taking over, this is what we need. Real. youtu.be/_C1jPP8fu4k?si=g0Qw…#indie#sweden
ToTw 526: Coming back to Ea Othilde (Oslo, Norway) once again with "I Will Not Be Like That". Effect pedals firmly on. That brill PJ Harvey feel. Explosive guitar wall bliss mixed with ethereal soft vocal sections. What the doctor ordered. Yummy! #indieyoutu.be/MkzrKEjSqX0?si=gO7o…
ToTw 426: Ea Othilde (Oslo, Norway) with "Florence". Soft airy vocals, muted, on the edge of turning artsy but just as you think that they twist and turn into brilliant noisy indie rock. Love what they do here. Looking forward to see these guys live.youtu.be/ATQSf9BBK78?si=3UY7…#indie
Happy Easter! I'm adding all the songs submitted to us to this playlist in case you want to follow it. Every song submitted is in there even if it's not getting enough votes for a track of the week. open.spotify.com/playlist/11…
Rome Is Not A Town (Gothenburg, Sweden) “The Breeze”. So much talent here, so many influences. Noise/surf/artsy/indie/alt. Every song is a whole new experience. There’s no “RINAT sound”. Puzzing, but you’re not going to be bored. youtu.be/H6rtWboFQjQ?si=uDXd…#indie#AlternativeMusic
Continuing '26 with some live footage of Svart Ridå from Ronneby, Sweden. Gig here tonight and I recorded some of it. Brilliant and sold out show. These guys won't be "small" for long. youtu.be/HFLgDi28vmM?si=gjLW…#indie#Sweden
Starting 2026 with Boy With Apple from Sweden. Not on X, no video. So Swedish. You can tell. But also brilliant. Jangly guitars, ethereal vocals, thumping bass, shimmering stars. Close to that sweet Aussie shoegaze feel, almost. open.spotify.com/track/03Nld…#indie#shoegaze#Sweden
ToTw: Ok it's Oslo, NO again. Jangly ethereal and noisy just-what-I-need right now prettiness. With just enough grunt to make it happen. You know what I mean? Early in their careers but with this talent, there’s no stopping them. Excellent. #indie#norwayfuturenostalgia.bandcamp.com…
ToTw: Hey Gloria from Norway/Sweden with "Att Känna Nåt Igen". Contemporary avant-garde post-punk collab with a drive impossible to ignore. Wishing it would go deeper and into the psychedelic direction it takes at the end. #indie#Swedenyoutu.be/yUzWyuWjEIc
ToTw: Future Nostalgia from Oslo, Norway with "Separate". Classic airy dreampop, super soothing for your soul, jangly guitars, dreamy and ethereal. This sound is what turned me into shoegaze once, and it still breaks my neurons. The whole album is brill. futurenostalgia.bandcamp.com…
ToTw: Tomma Intet (Sweden) with "Havet". Recorded some tunes with Tomma Intet from Gothenburg, Sweden live last week on the roof of the county museum. Psychedelic dreamy rock. They could go full Shoegaze if they wanted to. Just saying. youtube.com/watch?v=95yIDKaF…#indie#shoegaze
True ToTw: Scoreboard from Norway with "Rush Spells". Brilliant noisy and ethereal guitar wall bliss giving me that Aussie buzz and tingle that's so pleasant and cozy. This is shoegaze. Kids, watch and learn. youtu.be/_bJ4sC23cBA#indie#shoegaze
ToTw: Ocean Daze from Norway with "I Saw You". There's promise of pure shoegaze here. Especially when the band is set free at the end, filling the sludgy sloppy void with brilliant guitar walls. If only they'd done that throughout. youtu.be/2nJF9S5B7Yc#indie#shoegaze
ToTw: @POSTILJONEN with "Just Drive". Been 7 years. One of those bands you never thought would be gone, and once they were you kinda felt lost. Ethereal vocals, thumping bass, sax. Yes, saxophone. And it works. So well. I still crave you. youtu.be/yKUFUKfKSLA#indie#Sweden