In this episode of Big Sonic Heaven, we kicked off February with a track from the brand new Whitelands album, “Sunlight Echoes,” the new single from AtticOmatic’s upcoming EP, “Between Two.” We heard “Melting” from Cigarettes for Breakfast’s new “Color Wheel” EP, as well as new tracks from the German duo Jahrund and Atlanta’s dreampop duo Silk Daisys. 

We also celebrated The Cure’s first Grammy win in their 50-year career! They actually won two Grammys! “Songs of a Lost World” won for Best Alternative Album, and the single “Alone” won for Best Alternative Music Performance. Woohoo!

Checkout the playlist below and listen to the replay, available for the next two weeks.

• “Song to the Siren” – This Mortal Coil
• “Marble House” – The Knife
• “Golden Daze” – Whitelands
• “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” – The Dream Academy
• “Seabird” – Deary
• “Alone” – The Cure
• “A Night Like This” – The Cure
• “When You’re Gone.” – Bluhm
• “Montauk” – Silverdeer
• “A Girl Like You” – Hartfield
• “Reptile” – The Church
• “The Presence” – Emma Anderson
• “Someday” – Silk Daisys
• “Catch the Breeze” – Slowdive
• “Counting Sheep” – Acrylics
• “Sonnet” – The Verve
• “Burrow” – AtticOmatic
• “Vapour Trail” – Ride
• “Caramelize” – Bathe Alone
• “The Giving Ground” – The Sisterhood
• “The Robot Girl Psychiatrist” – The False Dawns
• “The Dress” – Blonde Redhead
• “1963” – New Order
• “Dead Inside” – ACTORS
• “Oceans Roar” – Jahrund
• “You Cause As Much Sorrow” – Sinead O’Connor
• “All I Need” – Radiohead
• “Melting” – Cigarettes for Breakfast
• “Only Shallow” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Doot Doot” – The Fauns
• “Pearly Dewdrops Drops” – Cocteau Twins
• “The Drain” – Ellis
• “Slide” – The Mary Onettes
• “The Rip” – Portishead
• “Selon l’humeur” – Autour de Lucie

Tonight, Big Sonic Heaven featured some great brand-new tracks. We heard “Seabird,” the first single from Deary’s upcoming debut album, “Birding.” They’re a three-piece dreampop band from London, signed to Simon Raymond’s label, Bella Union.  

Cigarettes for Breakfast is the project of Matt Whiteford. “The Color Wheel” EP is out in March, and we heard “Melting.”

Plus, “In the New” from singer-songwriter Kate de Rosset. She’s from North Carolina and has a brand-new album called “It Will Burn,” which was released earlier this month. 

In honor of filmmaker and artist David Lynch, who passed away a year ago last week, we heard “Falling,” by Julee Cruise, the Twin Peaks theme song. Lynch co-wrote the song with Cruise.

Checkout the playlist below and listen to the replay, available for the next two weeks.

• “Pink Orange Red” – Cocteau Twins
• “Lonely Town” – Steve Queralt (feat Emma Anderson)
• “Sacred Echoes (Part Two)” – The Church
• “All in my Mind” – Love and Rockets
• “Seabird” – Deary
• “Sleep Well Tonight” – Gene
• “Stranglehold” – The Churchhill Garden
• “Prayers for Rain” – The Cure
• “Waldorf Theft Song” – Au Revoir Borealis
• “Swordsman” – Night Tapes
• “A Girl Like You” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Dreams Never End” – New Order
• “After the Rain” – Orange Peels
• “Nirvana” – Glazyhaze
• “Half a Person” – The Smiths
• “You and Your Sister” – This Mortal Coil
• “For a While” – Fenne Lily
• “Sanvean/Tristan” – Dead Can Dance
• “Dead Sound” – The Raveonettes
• “Taste” – Ride
• “Melting” – Cigarettes for Breakfast
• “Vertigo” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Gabriel” – Lamb
• “In the New” – Kate de Rosset
• “If Only” – Nothing
• “Adorations” – Killing Joke
• “Little Galaxy” – Silk Daisys
• “A New Goodbye” – Nation of Language
• “Such a Shame” – Talk Talk
• “The Slab” – Slowdive
• “Slowdive” – Siouxsie and the Banshees
• “Falling” – Julee Cruise
• “Untitled 1” – Sigur Rós

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

The last Big Sonic Heaven of the year features the latest from She’s Green, The Mary Onettes, Yndling, Night Tapes, 16 Underground, and more.

Plus, this episode features tributes to two music industry greats who passed away this week. Perry “Teddy” Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist of The Cure, passed Dec. 26, and Howie Klein, head of Sire and Reprise Records, passed away at 77. Darren reminisced about long conversations with Howie and his love and dedication to music. 

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

• “Gold” – Sigur RósBlack
• “Celebration” – Depeche Mode
• “Little Birds” – She’s Green
• “From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea” – The Cure
• “Without a Trace” – 16 Underground
• “6 Underground” – Sneaker Pimps
• “No More Kissing in the Rain” – TrenteMøller
• “Sea of Tranquility” – Siouxsie
• “Champagne Charlie” – Ashes and Diamonds
• “Machine Gun” – Slowdive
• “Procession” – New Order
• “The United States of Amnesia” – Hooverphonic
• “What Else is There??” – Royksopp
• “Hurricane Heart” – The Mary Onettes
• “Musette and Drums” – Cocteau Twins
• “Pacifico” – Night Tapes
• “Blown a Wish” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Vertigo” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Jesseye ‘Lizabeth (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)” – Mercury Rev
• “You Know How I Hate it (How the World Moves On)” – Yndling
• “You Do Something to Me” – Sinead O’ Connor
• “Vertigo” – The Love is Deadly
• “Snow Heart” – Lucy La Dusk
• “Leave the Lights” – Marta and Tricky
• “All Night Long” – Peter Murphy
• “Sacred Echoes (Part Two)” – The Church
• “Twisterella” – Ride
• “Like Suicide” – Actors
• “Atonement (feat Hatchie)” – Winter
• “For Love” – Lush
• “Out of Breath” – Melt Motif
• “Shine ’07” – Ulrich Schnauss
• “War in Heaven” – The Raveonettes