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Aja Monet joins Lauren to talk about her latest album, The Color of Rain, and shares her musical DNA.

Plus, Lauren's got the finest music to motivate your Thursday, with the best tunes old and new.

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Music Played

  • Erykah Badu & The Alchemist

    Witch Doctor

    • Control Freaq Records.

  • Caribou

    Our Love

    • Our Love.
    • City Slang.
    • 001.

  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

    I Don't Know What It Is

  • Autechre

    Eutow

    • Tri Repetae.
    • Warp Records.
    • 6.

  • The Durutti Column

    Agonistes (feat. Caoilfhionn Rose)

    • London Records.

  • feeble little horse

    Rewind

    • Saddle Creek.

  • Jack White

    Neighbors Blues

    • Third Man Records.

  • Public Enemy

    Bring The Noise

    • Def Jam.

  • Public Enemy

    Give It Up

    • Def Jam.

  • Public Enemy

    Harder Than You Think

    • Public Enemy.

  • Sonic Youth

    Kool Thing

    • Geffen.

  • Public Enemy

    Fight The Power

    • The No.1 Rap Album.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 7.

  • The Prodigy vs Public Enemy & Manfred Mann

    Shut 'Em Up

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Japanese Breakfast

    Kokomo, IN

    • Jubilee.
    • Dead Oceans.
    • 3.

  • Alabama Shakes

    I Feel Hope Coming

    • Island.

  • Dummy

    Full Spectrum Dominance

  • Gold Panda

    You

    • You EP.
    • Ghostly International.
    • 1.

  • DIIV

    The Fountain

    • Fantasy Records.

  • Sailor Honeymoon

    Armchair (6 Music Session, 18 August 2026)

  • Mystery Jets

    Flea Joint

    • Fiction.

  • The Strokes

    Lonely in the Future

    • Cult Records/RCA Records.

  • aja monet

    Elsewhere (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello & Georgia Anne Muldrow)

    • Drink sum wtr.

  • Sade

    It's Only Love That Gets You Through

    • Lovers Rock.
    • Epic.
    • 11.

  • Nas

    If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)

    • Columbia.

  • Phoebe Bridgers

    Bobby

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Mount Kimbie & King Krule

    You Took Your Time

  • Slowdive

    Star Roving

    • Dead Oceans Records.

  • Moses Boyd

    Say Yeah

    • Exodus Records.

  • Jackson Sisters

    I Believe In Miracles

    • Telstar.

  • Roots Manuva

    On A High

    • Big Dada.

  • Westside Cowboy

    Pin Up Boys

    • Island.

  • Baba Stiltz

    Relief

  • Avalon Emerson

    Jupiter and Mars

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Panda Bear & Sonic Boom

    A? of WHEN

    • Domino.

  • Mogwai

    Helicon 1

    • Ten Rapid.
    • Rock Action Records.

  • Sahra Halgan

    Sharaf

    • Danaya.

Broadcast

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    BBC Radio 6 Music