It’s been a great couple of months for new music in Big Sonic Heaven and tonight we dove into those albums further. Dead Can Dance continues to release a new track every month via Bandcamp. We heard the almost 9-minute track, “Death Cult.”

We also revisited Deary, Bug Teeth, Art School Girlfriend, The Twilight Sad, Miki Berenyi Trio, Ashes and Diamonds, The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream, and A Shoreline Dream. Plus classics from Lush, Slowdive, Tones On Tail, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, and more.

Check out the playlist below and don’t forget this show is available on-demand for the next two weeks at wdet.org.

• “Glóð” – Sigur Rós
• “Light From A Dead Star” – Lush
• “Smile” – Deary
• “That Was Another Country” – The Innocence Mission
• “Life in Mono” – Mono
• “Death Cults” – Dead Can Dance
• “Blind Hearts” – Clan Of Xymox
• “Saudade” – This Love Is Deadly
• “lakes” – She’s Green
• “Birdmad Girl” – The Cure
• “Thin Circle” – Bug Teeth
• “Blue Bell Knoll” – Cocteau Twins
• “Seven” – Fever Ray
• “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby” – The Smiths
• “Like Me” – MØAA
• “Down with the Upward (feat. Mark Gardner)” – A Shoreline Dream
• “Christian Says” – Tones on Tail
• “BACK TO FOURTEEN” – The Twilight Sad
• “Boyfriend” – Majesty Crush
• “Paralysed” – Ride
• “Surely I Can’t Wait” – Nation of Language
• “Stray Fantasies” – Mint Julep
• “Almost Transparent” – Art School Girlfriend
• “When The Sun Hits” – Slowdive
• “Fate” – Memoryhouse
• “Into You” – The Haunted Youth
• “In Your Room” – Depeche Mode
• “Island Of One” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Ruined In A Day” – New Order
• “Hollywood” – Ashes And Diamonds
• “Just Like Honey” – The Jesus & Mary Chain
• “Tonight Is Mine” – Emma Anderson
• “Nefi & Girly” – Asobi Seksu
• “Before” – The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream
• “Special One” – Ultra Vivid Scene
• “Acid, Bitter and Sad” – This Mortal Coil

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

Excited about some new music in Big Sonic Heaven this week. We played two tracks from the much-anticipated album “Birding” from dreampop three-piece Deary, which was released this week. We also heard the new single from She’s Green, “Paper Thin,” from their upcoming EP, “Swallowtail,” which is due in July.

Plus, the latest from The Julies, Dead Can Dance, Searows, and Miki Berenyi Trio, along with your favorite shoegaze, dream pop, and post-punk.

• “Elysium, Honor Him, Now We Are Free” – Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
• “Doot Doot” – The Fauns
• “In Violet” – Searows
• “Baby’s Breath” – deary
• “Love’s Easy Tears” – Cocteau Twins
• “I Think I Knew” – The Church
• “A Night Like This” – The Cure
• “Low December Sun” – Air Formation
• “Paper Thin” – She’s Green
• “Sweetness And Light” – Lush
• “I’m So Tired” – Deserta
• “Out Of Sight” – Hooverphonic
• “Nobody Loves You More” – Kim Deal
• “Neon Afterlife” – The Julies
• “All Mine” – Portishead
• “Island Of One” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Run” – New Order
• “Orange of the Westering Sun” – The Innocence Mission
• “Primal” – Slowdive
• “Smile” – deary
• “Everywhere” – Cranes
• “New You” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Fine Friend” – Pale Saints
• “Stranglehold” – The Churchhill Garden
• “Hazlewood” – Toothpaste
• “Halo” – Depeche Mode
• “Thin Circle” – Bug Teeth
• “Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Vanity (feat. Rachel Goswell)” – Drab Majesty
• “Coldsweat” – Sugarcubes
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “The Worst Taste In Music” – The Radio Dept.