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

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