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Clear your head with indie focus

Lauren presents a steady flow of indie sounds for work, study or switching off.

Today's mix contains focused beats from Beach House, The xx and Bombay Bicycle Club.

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

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Music Played

  • The Avalanches

    Since I Left You

    • XL.

  • Gorillaz

    Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack & Yasiin Bey)

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Andrew Innes, Primal Scream, Henry Olsen, Martin Duffy, Robert Young & Toby Tomanov

    Slip Inside This House

    • Creation Records.

  • Maribou State

    Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)

    • Counter Records.

  • The xx

    On Hold

    • Young Turks.

  • Beck

    The New Pollution

    • DGC.

  • Real Estate

    Darling

    • Domino.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    Lights Out, Words Gone

  • Beach House

    Master of None

    • Apple Orchard Music.

  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

    Countdown (feat. Mild High Club)

    • ATO.

  • Yo La Tengo

    Our Way To Fall

    • AND THEN NOTHING TURNED ITSELF INSIDE OUT.
    • Matador.
    • 2.

  • Ian Brown

    F.E.A.R.

    • Reloaded (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music.

  • Warpaint

    Love Is To Die

    • Rough Trade.

  • Khruangbin, Donald Johnson, Jr., Laura Lee & Mark Speer

    Two Fish and an Elephant

  • Pond

    Paint Me Silver

    • Marathon Artists.

  • Mercury Rev

    Holes

    • V2.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    The Dying Of The Light

    • Chasing Yesterday.
    • Sour Mash.
    • 005.

  • Feist

    The Limit To Your Love

  • Big Thief

    Masterpiece

    • Masterpiece.
    • Saddle Creek.
    • 2.

  • Bloc Party

    I Still Remember

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wichita.

  • The Charlatans

    Different Days

    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Jagwar Ma

    Uncertainty

    • Howlin'.
    • Marathon Artists.

  • Happy Mondays

    Loose Fit

    • Factory.

  • Glass Animals

    Pork Soda

    • Wolf Tone.

  • Stereolab

    French Disko

    • Duophonic Ultra High Fre.

  • DIIV

    Under the Sun

    • Is the Is Are.
    • Captured Tracks.
    • 2.

  • Sleigh Bells

    Rill Rill

    • COLUMBIA.

  • The Cure

    Pictures of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • London Grammar

    Metal & Dust

    • If You Wait (Deluxe Version).
    • Ministry of Sound Recordings.
    • 8.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Chicago

    • Asthmatic Kitty.

  • The National

    Fake Empire

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Beggars Banquet.
    • 1.

  • Cat Power

    The Greatest

    • (CD Single).
    • Matador.

  • alt‐J

    Tessellate

    • Infectious.

  • Emma Smith, Hot Chip & Sarah Jones

    Love Is the Future

    • Domino.

  • Spector

    All The Sad Young Men

    • Moth Boys.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Slowdive

    Alison

    • Souvlaki.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Sigur Rós

    Hoppípolla

    • Hoppípolla.
    • EMI Records.
    • A1.

  • Bon Iver

    29 #Strafford APTS

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Home Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Foals

    Spanish Sahara

    • Transgressive.

  • Spiritualized

    Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

    • Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space.
    • Fat Possum.
    • 1.

  • Super Furry Animals

    Juxtapozed With U

    • Universal Music.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    A Song For The Lovers

    • Hut Music.

  • Portishead

    The Rip

    • Island Records.

  • Grandaddy

    The Crystal Lake

    • V2.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    Wide Open (feat. Beck)

    • Virgin EMI.

  • CHVRCHES

    Recover

    • The Bones Of What You Believe.
    • Vertigo Berlin.
    • 7.

Broadcasts

  • Wed 5 Aug 2026 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Tuesday 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever