I had so much new music to share in Big Sonic Heaven tonight! We heard the first single from Delerium’s new album coming out in January, called “Into The Light.” Also, who woulda thunk it, but there’s new Morphine, comprised of recordings newly remixed from 1998.

Plus, new singles from Yndling and Boy Harsher. We also gave the new Beach House and Fleeting Colours another spin! 

There were also a couple of album anniversaries to celebrate: This Mortal Coil’s “Filigree & Shadow” turned 40, and Primal Scream’s “Screamadelica” turned 35! 

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Sep. 27, 2026

• “Pearl” – Chapterhouse
• “I’m So Tired” – Deserta
• “Swerve” – Trentemøller
• “Don’t Talk” – 10,000 Maniacs
• “The Honey” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Imagination” – Xymox
• “Losing Daylight” – Prepare My Glider
• “Someone New” – Aerial Love Feed
• “Bind Us” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Fotzepolitic” – Cocteau Twins
• “Michael” – Beachy Head
• “Shell” – Yndling
• “Slide Away” – The Verve
• “The Robot Girl Psychiatrist” – The False Dawns
• “Cocoon” – Morphine
• “Last Day on Earth” – Swervedriver
• “Blister Sunrise” – M83
• “Drive That Fast” – Kitchens Of Distinction
• “Gold” – Sigur Rós
• “Into The Light” – Delerium & Diamanda Galás
• “Silver Beach” – Kristin Hersh
• “Thoughtforms” – Lush
• “Pray 4 Me” – Boy Harsher
• “Higher than the Sun” – Primal Scream
• “Fairground” – deary
• “Welcome Break” – Mary in the Junkyard
• “Sometimes” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Autumn” – Fleeting Colours
• “Four Hands” – Now Always Fades
• “Velvet Belly/The Jeweler” – The Mortal Coil
• “Someone Great” – LCD Soundsystem
• “Swordsman” – Night Tapes
• “April Suzanne” – Beach House
• “Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book” – Dead Can Dance
• “Keep The Streets Empty For Me” – Fever Ray

Tonight we got snuggled in for the first day of fall coming up this week. We featured new music from Fleeting Colours, a song called “Autumn,” a dreamy, cozy psych-folk cover of a Lester Folsom song from Beach House, and the latest from The Church and ACTORS.

Plus, we heard a new instrumental from Dead Can Dance, picked Apples for Isaac with Echo and the Bunnymen, and much, much more along with your fave Shoegaze, Dreampop, and Post-Punk classics.

Check out the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Sept. 20, 2026

• “Iceblink Luck” – Cocteau Twins
• “Clusters” – Emma Anderson
• “Going Nowhere (feat. Olive Kimoto)” – Locust
• “Bachelorette” – Björk
• “Blister Sunrise” – M83
• “Coast Is Clear” – Curve
• “Alma” – deary
• “Stay” – Dr. Horsehead
• “Peng! 33” – Stereolab
• “Martian Skyline” – The Church
• “Paralysed” – Ride
• “April Suzanne” – Beach House
• “You And Your Sister” – This Mortal Coil
• “kisses” – Slowdive
• “Exploded View” – ACTORS
• “Calling the Magazine” – Mind Cinema
• “Tunic (Song for Karen)” – Sonic Youth
• “Autumn” – Fleeting Colours
• “Love In Itself” – Depeche Mode
• “Graze” – She’s Green
• “The Light That Surrounds You” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “…And The Next Day” – Melissa Auf der Maur 
• “Harold and Cindy Hospital” – Severed Heads
• “Deep Blue Day” – Brian Eno
• “Phantom Fears” – Dorian’s Steaming Shadow
• “Adorations” – Killing Joke
• “International Dateline” – Ladytron
• “Love’s Riddle (feat. Emma Anderson & Heidi Berry)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Black Boys On Mopeds” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Are You Safe?” – Maquillage
• “Prevail” – Mouth Ulcers
• “The Headmaster Ritual” – The Smiths
• “Primitive Painters” – Felt
• “Nāda” – Dead Can Dance
• “Sinking” – The Cure
• “Soul Sky” – Locust, Griff Spex & Olive Kimoto
• “Clementine” – Xymox

This holiday weekend in Big Sonic Heaven, we featured another brand-new single from Echo and the Bunnymen along with a new one from Simple Minds. We featured the brand-new dreamy shoegazey single from Dottie and the latest from Hannes Kretzer out of Berlin, a track that builds into a beautiful wall of sound.

We also revisited some great new tracks from Trentemøller, BlauDisS &Tilly, plus some of your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics. 

View the playlist below and listen to the show recording above for up to two weeks after it airs.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Sept. 6, 2026

• “Just One Kiss” – The Cure
• “Just Drive” – Postiljonen
• “Feels Like Summer” – Sing-Sing
• “Love’s Easy Tears” – Cocteau Twins
• “Take Me By The Hand” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “All the Way” – New Order
• “Surely I Can’t Wait” – Nation of Language
• “Texture” – Catherine Wheel
• “Saudade” – This Love Is Deadly
• “Blister Sunrise” – M83
• “Don’t Fall” – The Chameleons
• “Your Lips, My Mouth” – Airiel
• “Reality” – Poison Girl Friend & Sigh Society
• “Catch The Breeze” – Slowdive
• “lakes” – she’s green
• “Terrified” – Trentemøller
• “Not Me” – This Mortal Coil
• “Beginner Boys” – Simple Minds
• “Black Sun” – Dead Can Dance
• “little galaxy” – Silk Daisys
• “Don’t You Go (feat. Dominic Appleton)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “You & them & missing” – BlauDisS, &Tilly
• “Higher Love” – Depeche Mode
• “Veil” – Violet Oscillation
• “Memories and the Sky” – Goodbye Ranger
• “Sorry For Laughing” – Propaganda
• “The Big Shake” – The Mary Onettes
• “Devotion & Decay” – Hannes Kretzer
• “Red Shoes” – Throwing Muses
• “doll” – dottie
• “Kiss of Snow feat. Krissy VanderWoude” – LongingSky
• “Thoughtforms” – Lush
• “Goodbye Vista” – Deserta
• “Distraction” – Beachy Head
• “Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
• “Fall Apart” – Ellis
• “Stumble And Fall” – Clan Of Xymox
• “Delicious Demon”-Sugarcubes

Tonight I featured the new trentemøller single from the upcoming album out this November. I also played a couple of shimmering new singles from Crystal Canyon and Alison’s Halo, as well as a reimagining of a Twin Peaks classic from Tokyo-based POiSON GiRL FRiEND. 

Plus, we heard the very dreamy new single from Kate de Rosset, and much more. We also spun the 60’s girl-group-inspired Sing-Sing, the 90’s group made up of friends Emma Anderson and Lisa O’Neil, who are reissuing their debut album after 25+ years with a new single and artwork designed by Chris Bigg. And, of course, our weekly dose of shoegaze, dream-pop, and post-punk classics!

View the playlist below and listen to the show recording above for up to two weeks after it airs.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 30, 2026

• “All Night Long” – Peter Murphy
• “Brother (feat. Dave Gahan)” – Humanist
• “Terrified” – trentemøller
• “Jerusalem” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Mrs Connelly” – Crystal Canyon”Twisterella” – Ride
• “NIRVANA” – Glazyhaze
• “Clearest Blue” – &Tilly
• “Lilies” – Cranes
• “Feels Like Summer (2026 Remaster)” – Sing-Sing
• “Secrets” – Silver Swans
• “Chimär (Gbg)” – Kallsup
• “Duel” – Propaganda
• “Night Comes Out” – The Raveonettes”Are You Safe?” – Maquillage”Ornaments of Gold” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Sacred Echoes (Part Two)” – The Church
• “Because I Don’t Know (Lita Lores Version)” – Lita Lores & Tricky
• “Speakers Don’t Speak (Clean Version)” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Screw” – The Cure
• “CTRL” – ACTORS
• “Stuck” – Alison’s Halo
• “Change” – Prepare My Glider
• “Space Song” – Beach House
• “The Light That Surrounds You” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Smile” – State Of Grace
• “Ophelia” – Johnny Marr
• “Paint A Vulgar Picture” – The Smiths
• “The Drift” – deary
• “It’s a Fine Day (feat. Ian Masters)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Crushed” – Cocteau Twins
• “Burrow” – AtticOmatic
• “Chase the Bloom” – Kate de Rosset
• “Falling” – POiSON GiRL FRiEND
• “Primal” – Slowdive
• “hide-a-lullaby” (Mixtape Version Feat. Peel Dream Magazine) – Winter
• “Of Course I’m Lying – Yello

We featured lots of new music for you in Big Sonic Heaven tonight including two Shoegaze singles, one from Canada’s Prepare My Glider, featuring Gouachepaint on vocals, and another from Swedish band Kallsup. We’ll also heard the lovely cinematic dreampop of Flower Face out of Montreal, along with another new Echo and the Bunnymen track.

Plus, from Italy, Steffano Guzetti’s 4AD-inspired compilation has just been released and I shared a couple tracks from that, featuring Emma Anderson, Heidi Berry, and Ian Masters. We also gave the Singaporean artist Shye another spin, and of course, many of your favorite shoegaze, dreampop and post-punk tracks, including a Creation Records set.

View the playlist below and listen to the show recording above for up to two weeks after it airs.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 23, 2026

• “Hyperballad” – Björk
• “Alfie” – deary
• “Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
• “The Light That Surrounds You” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Baby Talk” – Lush
• “Bleed” – She’s Green
• “Boyfriend” – Majesty Crush
• “Hurt” – The Haunted Youth
• “Last Dance” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Skin Of The Night” – M83
• “Living In Another World” – Talk Talk
• “I Wanted It To Be You” – Shye
• “Catch The Breeze” – Slowdive
• “On My Own” – Ulrich Schnauss
• “You & them & missing” – BlauDisS &Tilly
• “Falter” – Acopia
• “To Here Knows When” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Does This Hurt?” – The Boo Radleys
• “It’s a Fine Day (feat. Ian Masters)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Lilac Wine” – Jeff Buckley
• “Chimär (Gbg)” – Kallsup
• “Magic Only” – Panda Riot
• “Change” – Prepare My Glider
• “Tristan / Sanvean” – Dead Can Dance
• “Bad Dream” – Flower Face
• “White Light” – Locust & Olive Kimoto
• “St. Swithin’s Day” – Dubstar
• “Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Deep Ocean Vast Sea” – Peter Murphy
• “Love’s Riddle (feat. Emma Anderson & Heidi Berry)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Face” – Moev
• “Take Forever (feat. Robert Smith)” – The Japanese Popstars

Tonight, in Big Sonic Heaven, we brought you some great new shoegazey, atmospheric music. We featured Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, also known as L’Rain, whose genre-bending music has been described as kaleidoscopic. We also featured some beautifully layered atmospheric shoegaze from In Inertia, out of Jakarta, Indonesia. We played the new Shye, who always delivers a great Dreampop track, and the first single from Swervedriver’s Raise:demos album coming out this October, and your favorite Shoegaze, Dreampop, and Post-Punk tracks.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 16, 2026

“Black Celebration” – Depeche Mode
“Down with the Upward” – A Shoreline Dream (feat. Mark Gardener)
“Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
“Les Yper-Sound” – Stereolab
“Flawed (demo version”) – Swervedriver
“Musette And Drums” – Cocteau Twins
“There Must Be so Much More” – Pink Turns Blue
“Ophelia 3:58” – Johnny Marr
“Are You Safe?” – Maquillage
“500 (Shake Baby Shake)” – Lush
“Never Follow Suit” – The Radio Dept.
“Lusty” – Lamb
“I Wanna Disappear” – Starflyer 59
“Breaking My Light” – Minor Victories
“Love Spells” – Attic Ocean
“Six Different Ways” – The Cure
“In The Flowers” – Sea Lemon
“What Remains Is Beautiful” – In Inertia (feat. Niskala)
“Bonny” – Prefab Sprout
“I Wanted It To Be You” – Shye
“Bright As Yellow” – The Innocence Mission
“The Sweetness Of Honey” – Club 8
“Euphoria (Firefly)” – Delerium
Want You – deary
“Hoppípolla” – Sigur Rós
“Dark Horse” – Edward Ka-Spel
“So And Slow It Grows (7″ Remix)” – WIR
“Death Cults” – Dead Can Dance
“elmyra” – L’Rain
“Harrowdown Hill” – Thom Yorke
“Come Together (7″ Version)” – Primal Scream
“Ruined In A Day” – New Order
“swim” – Night Tapes
“After the Rain” – The Orange Peels
“Crown of Thorns” – Erasure
“My Times Up” – The Raveonettes

Tonight we featured the new single from DIIV’s forthcoming album due out this October. Plus, new music from the debut album by Spike, the London-based synth-pop project of Hannah McLoughlin. I also played another new track from She’s Green, who are coming to town on October 1st to The Sanctuary in Detroit, and took the new Blonde Redhead for another spin. And, as always, we heard some of your Shoegaze, Dreampop, and Post-Punk faves.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 9, 2026

“Lorelei” – Cocteau Twins
“Além” – Summer of Hate
“I Think I Knew” – The Church
“1963” – New Order
“The Fountain” – DIIV
“Only Shallow” – My Bloody Valentine
“Emo Song” – The Haunted Youth
“Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
“Coastal” – Attic Ocean
“Ballerina Out Of Control” – The Ocean Blue
“I’m So Tired” – Deserta
“Mettle” – She’s Green
“New Day” – The Cure
“Waldorf Theft Song” – Au Revoir Borealis
“Tell Me” – Johnny Jewel (feat. Saoirse Ronan)
“Speakers Don’t Speak” – The Wolfgang Press
“Drive That Fast” – Kitchens Of Distinction
“You’re Missing” – Spike
“Stripped” – Depeche Mode
“Awake” – Tycho
“In Violet” – Searows
“Crash Landing” – Mary in the Junkyard
“Beauty*2” – Ladytron
“A Shoulder To The Wheel” – Bel Canto
“Marinade” – Tricky (feat. Mitch Sanders)
“Leave Them All Behind” – Ride
“Shoot Me Down” – Velveteen
“Blue Days – John Fryer Mix” – Seasurfer (feat. Elena Alice Fossi)
“South Coast” – Throwing Muses
“Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” – The Smiths
“The Cicadas” – Dead Can Dance
“I’m on Fire” – Chromatics
“Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
“Dagger” – Slowdive
“Wake Up In New York” – Craig Armstrong
“Other People” – Beach House

Tonight we heard the brand-new single from Blonde Redhead and a track from the new Starflyer59 EP. Plus, some dreamy new music from Locust & Olive Kimoto, and more, along with your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 2, 2026

• “The Garden Ends” – The Autumns
• “Mon Amour Sauvage” – Dead Can Dance
• “Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
• “Crank” – Catherine Wheel
• “I Wanna Disappear” – Starflyer 59
• “The Sweetness Of Honey” – Club 8
• “Eighties Fan” – Camera Obscura
• “Lions & Tigers” – Asobi Seksu
• “Coming Home” – The Haunted Youth
• “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea” – The Cure
• “The Visitors” – Doublespeak
• “New Dress” – Depeche Mode
• “Recollection” – Keep Shelly In Athens
• “swim” – Night Tapes
• “Unicorn” – Bel Canto
• “White Light” – Locust & Olive Kimoto
• “Jellyfish” – Left at Orion
• “Pearl” – Chapterhouse
• “Sleepsong” – Deary
• “Without you (feat. Soccer Mommy)” – Winter
• “2 Wicky” – Hooverphonic
• “Octopus” – Starrgazy
• “A Return” – The Tear Garden
• “Orange Appled” – Cocteau Twins
• “Aurora” – Attic Ocean
• “Someone’s Calling” – Modern English “Northern Sky (w/ Anne Garner)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Mr. Somewhere/Andialu” – This Mortal Coil
• “Gold” – Sigur Rós
• “Ophelia” – Johnny Marr
• “Chained to a cloud” – Slowdive