In tonight’s Big Sonic Heaven, we featured music from The Twilight Sad’s new album which features Robert Smith on bass and guitar.

The band is also touring this spring with another Big Sonic favorite, deary. We played two new tracks from their debut album, “Birding.”

We also heard the latest from Hammock featuring The Flaming Lips and more, along with your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics!

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above. 

• “Feel So Different” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Vertigo” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “Feel” – The Church
• “Blue Ribbon” – deary
• “Face To Face” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Kandy” – Fever Ray
• “Crushed” – Cocteau Twins
• “Silhouette” – Nation of Language
• “All Night Long” – Peter Murphy
• “Blood Money” – The Sisters Of Mercy
• “Plainsong” – The Cure
• “Everyone Knows” -Slowdive
• “INHOSPITABLE/HOSPITAL” – The Twilight Sad
• “Delicious Demon” – Sugarcubes
• “Just Drive” – Postiljonen
• “Sunday Morning” – Beth Gibbons & War Child Records
• “Kiss Her Kiss Her” – Blonde Redhead
• “Monopoly” – Yndling
• “Leaves Me Cold” – Lush
• “Desire” – Silver Swans
• “No Sweeter Feeling” – deary
• “Lions & Tigers” – Asobi Seksu
• “Translucent” – The Bellwether Syndicate
• “Ride It On” – Mazzy Star
• “Hide & Seek” – Airiel
• “Strolling” – The Giraffe Told Me In My Dream
• “Compulsion” – Martin L. Gore
• “Chemicals Make You Small (feat. The Flaming Lips)” – Hammock
• “The Him” – New Order
• “Gold” – Sigur Rós
• “Summer Moon” – The Raveonettes
• “Universal Soldier” – Depeche Mode & War Child Records
• “Goodbye Lucille #1” – Prefab Sprout
• “Pump” – He Said

This episode of Big Sonic Heaven featured the latest from Nation of Language, Morrissey, Hatchie, Stereolab, and another track from Whitelands new album “Sunlight Echoes.”

We also heard a couple of great Alex Chilton and Cole Porter covers by This Mortal Coil and Sinead O’Connor, respectively, and, of course, a whole bunch of shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics.

See the playlist below and hear this episode on demand for two weeks at wdet.org or via the WDET app.

• “In A Lonely Place” – New Order
• “Purple” – She’s green
• “Silhouette” – Nation of Language
• “Last Night” – Lush
• “I Am No God, an Effigy” – Whitelands
• “Life in Mono” – Mono
• “Want You” – Deary
• “Kangaroo” – This Mortal Coil
• “This Is Not a Drill” – Lanterns on the Lake
• “Make-up is a lie” – Morrissey
• “Crystal Wrists” – Peter Murphy
• “You Do Something to Me” – Sinead O’ Connor
• “In A Manner Of Speaking” – Martin L. Gore
• “Give up the Ghost” – Minor Victories
• “Apart” – The Cure
• “Little Galaxy” – Silk Daisys
• “Crank” – Catherine Wheel
• “Flowing” – Cigarettes for Breakfast
• “Musette And Drums” – Cocteau Twins
• “Familiar” – Piroshka
• “Come Alive” – Nitzer Ebb
• “Carousel” – Hatchie
• “Ace of Hz” – Ladytron
• “Magic Doors” – Portishead
• “Consequence.” – The Notwist
• “Fed Up With Your Job” – Stereolab
• “Up the Down Escalator” – The Chameleons
• “Here Is The House” – Depeche Mode
• “Warmth” – Glazyhaze
• “San Geronimo” – Red House Painters
• “Slomo” – Slowdive
• “The Worst Taste In Music” – The Radio Dept.
• “Glimpse” – The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream
• “Open Mind” – Moev

The first Big Sonic Heaven episode of 2026 features a range of the latest music from around the world, including New York, Manchester, Germany, Lebanon, San Francisco, and Taiwan. And let’s not forget the Big Sonic classics.

See the playlist below, and don’t forget that this and every episode are available on demand for two weeks after it airs online.

Big Sonic Heaven Playlist for Jan. 5, 2025

• “Paris and Rome” – Cranes
• “Breaking My Light” – Minor Victories
• “The Loony Bin” – Jahrund
• “Love in Itself” – Depeche Mode
• “Silhouette” – She’s Green
• “I Want to Touch You” – Catherine Wheel
• “Phosphorous” – Lamb
• “Haunt” – Washed Out
• “Girl of Colours” – 24 Gone
• “The Great Unknown” – IVY
• “Doused” – DIIV
• “Lament” – The Cure
• “The Drift” – Deary
• “Hollywood” – Ashes and Diamonds
• “Memories Fade” – Tears for Fears
• “Goldmine” – Chokecherry
• “Someone’s Calling” – Modern English
• “Kiss of Snow (feat Krissy Vanderwoude from The Churchhill Garden)” – Longingsky
• “The Headmaster’s Ritual” – The Smiths
• “You Against the Rest of Us” – Airiel
• “Down with the Upward” – A Shoreline Dream
• “Blue Bell Knoll” – Cocteau Twins
• “Faît Accompli” – Curve
• “Wait” – Meena
• “Silently” – Blonde Redhead
• “Heaven” – Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
• “Before” – The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream
• “Celia’s Dream” – Slowdive
• “Clusters” – Emma Anderson
• “Once More” – Bathe Alone
• “The Him” – New Order
• “Construction Site” – Postcards
• “Raconte Moi Une Histoire” – M83