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Focus your mind with indie sounds

Lauren Laverne brings you three hours of the best indie tunes to help you stay productive.

Expect the best tunes from Wolf Alice, The Cure and Tame Impala.

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

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Music Played

  • Wolf Alice

    Silk

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

  • Blur

    Good Song

    • Think Tank.
    • Parlophone.

  • Glass Animals

    Hazey

    • Zaba.
    • Wolf Tone.
    • 001.

  • Sneaker Pimps

    6 Underground

    • Virgin.

  • The Cure

    Lullaby

    • Fiction.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Necessary Evil

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Primal Scream

    Slip Inside This House

    • sony bmg.

  • Moby

    Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

    • Mute Records.

  • Jamie Woon

    Sharpness

    • PMR.

  • Jungle

    Platoon

    • Jungle.
    • XL/Chess Club.
    • 4.

  • Happy Mondays

    Hallelujah (Club Mix)

    • Factory Records.

  • Tame Impala

    Patience

    • Fiction Records.

  • The xx

    Intro

    • XX.
    • Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Evangeline

    • Fontana.

  • Mazzy Star

    Fade Into You

    • Capitol.

  • Phoenix

    If I Ever Feel Better

    • Source Records.

  • Mac DeMarco

    Chamber Of Reflection

    • Salad Days.
    • Captured Tracks.
    • 9.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Video Game

    • Ascension.
    • Asthamtic Kitty Records.

  • Japanese Breakfast

    Machinist

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Gorillaz

    El Mañana

    • Parlophone.

  • Atoms for Peace

    Before Your Very Eyes

    • XL.

  • Ian Brown

    My Star

    • Polydor.

  • Broadcast

    The Book Lovers

    • Duophonic Super 45s ‎.

  • Swim Deep

    She Changes the Weather

    • Where the Heaven Are We.
    • RCA Records Label.
    • 11.

  • Kurt Vile

    Loading Zones

    • Matador Records.

  • The Charlatans

    Tellin' Stories

    • Tellin’ Stories.
    • Beggars Banquet.
    • 001.

  • Poliça

    Lay Your Cards Out

    • MEMPHIS INDUSTIRES.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    A Song For The Lovers

    • Hut Music.

  • The Coral

    Being Somebody Else

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Deltasonic.
    • 1.

  • Alvvays

    Not My Baby

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Interpol

    NYC

    • Turn On The Bright Lights.
    • Matador.
    • 3.

  • Big Thief

    Shark Smile

    • Saddle Creek Records.

  • Bon Iver

    Flume

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Jamie T

    Don't You Find

    • Virgin Records.

  • José González

    Crosses

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Peacefrog.

  • Radiohead

    Pyramid Song

    • Parlophone.

  • Daughter

    Numbers

    • 4AD.

  • Warpaint

    Intro

    • Warpaint.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.

  • Death Cab for Cutie

    I Will Possess Your Heart

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Atlantic.

  • Slowdive

    Souvlaki Space Station

    • Outside Your Room EP.
    • Creation Records.
    • B1.

  • Stereolab

    Brakhage

    • Dots And Loops (Expanded Edition).
    • Duophonic / Warp Records.

  • M83

    Road Blaster

    • Naive Records.

  • Men I Trust

    Lauren

    • Men I Trust.

  • The 1975 & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Somebody Else (Radio 1 Live Lounge Symphony, 30 Sep 2016)

    • I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it.
    • Dirty Hit.
    • 010.

  • Daft Punk

    Veridis Quo

    • Discovery.
    • Virgin.
    • 011.

  • Kasabian

    Processed Beats

    • Kasabian.
    • BMG UK & Ireland.
    • 002.

  • The Marías

    Ruthless

    • Superclean, Vol. II.
    • Superclean Records.

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