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Indie sounds to sharpen your focus

Find your working rhythm with this focused indie selection, designed to help you concentrate and keep moving.

Expect tracks by Grimes, DIIV, Big Thief and loads more!

Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music Indie Forever.

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Music Played

  • Arcade Fire

    Keep The Car Running

    • Mercury.

  • Grimes

    Genesis

    • 4 A.D..

  • Boards of Canada

    Aquarius

    • Aquarius.
    • Skam.
    • A.

  • Massive Attack

    Protection (feat. Tracey Thorn)

    • Wild Bunch.

  • Pulp

    Something Changed

    • Island.

  • Daughter

    Burn It Down

    • 4AD.

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Blown a Wish

    • Loveless.
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 9.

  • Slowdive

    When the Sun Hits

    • Souvlaki.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 7.

  • Tame Impala

    New Person Same Old Mistakes

    • Fiction / Polydor.

  • Radiohead

    Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

    • In Rainbows.
    • XL Recordings.

  • DIIV

    Out of Mind

    • Is the Is Are.
    • Captured Tracks.
    • 1.

  • Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia, Max Oleartchik & Big Thief

    Mythological Beauty

    • Capacity.
    • Saddle Creek Records.
    • 007.

  • alt‐J

    Breezeblocks

    • Infectious.

  • The Beta Band

    Squares

    • Regal.

  • Angel Olsen

    New Love Cassette

    • Jagjagjaguwar.

  • Sigur Rós

    Glósóli

    • Takk....
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 2.

  • Warpaint

    Undertow

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.

  • Anna Calvi

    As A Man

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO. LTD..

  • UNKLE

    Be There (feat. Ian Brown)

    • Mo Wax.

  • Wolf Alice

    Silk

    • My Love Is Cool.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 6.

  • The Cure

    Lullaby

    • Fiction.

  • The Boo Radleys

    Lazarus

    • GIANT STEPS.
    • Creation Records.

  • Primal Scream

    Come Together (7" Mix)

    • Match Of The Day.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 5.

  • Bloc Party

    Compliments

    • Silent Alarm.
    • [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue.
    • 13.

  • Poliça

    Lay Your Cards Out

    • MEMPHIS INDUSTIRES.

  • Gorillaz

    Humility (feat. George Benson)

    • The Now Now.
    • Parlophone.

  • Brittany Howard

    Stay High

    • Columbia Records.

  • Sleigh Bells

    Rill Rill

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Too Much

    • ASTHMATIC KITTY.

  • Zero 7

    Simple Science

    • Make Records.

  • Animal Collective

    My Girls

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DOMINO.
    • 1.

  • Mac DeMarco

    Chamber Of Reflection

    • Salad Days.
    • Captured Tracks.
    • 9.

  • Metronomy

    Everything Goes My Way

    • Because Music.

  • Marika Hackman

    My Lover Cindy

    • AMF Records.

  • The Coral

    Jacqueline

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Deltasonic.

  • Khruangbin

    August 10

    • Late Night Tales.

  • London Grammar

    Non Believer

    • Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Deluxe).
    • Ministry of Sound Recordings.
    • 7.

  • Broken Bells

    Holding On For Life

    • After the Disco.
    • Columbia.

  • First Aid Kit

    Emmylou

    • WITCHITA.

  • Portishead

    Glory Box

    • GO BEAT.

  • B.E.D

    White Coats

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Hunnybee

    • Sex & Food.
    • Jagjaguwar.
    • 4.

  • The xx

    Chained

    • Young Turks.

  • Mogwai

    Helicon 1

    • Ten Rapid.
    • Rock Action Records.

  • Cigarettes After Sex

    Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby

    • I..
    • Spanish Prayers.

  • Elbow

    Magnificent (She Says)

    • Little Fictions.
    • Polydor.

  • Beirut

    Santa Fe

    • Pompeii Records.

Broadcasts

  • Last Monday13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Thu 29 Oct 202613:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever