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