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Indie tunes to streamline your attention

Indie tunes to help you focus, create and power through, with three hours of music to keep your mind on track.

With tracks by Warpaint, Portishead and Ian Brown.

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

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Music Played

  • Grizzly Bear

    Two Weeks

    • CD SINGLE.
    • WARP.
    • 1.

  • Warpaint

    Biggy

    • Warpaint.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 5.

  • Portishead

    Wandering Star

    • Dummy.
    • Polydor Associated Labels.
    • 5.

  • Ian Brown

    F.E.A.R.

    • POLYDOR.

  • Groove Armada

    At The River

    • Pepper.

  • M83

    Road Blaster

    • Naive Records.

  • The War on Drugs

    Under The Pressure

    • Lost In The Dream.
    • Secretly Canadian.
    • 001.

  • Bat for Lashes

    Daniel

    • CD SINGLE.
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • 1.

  • The xx

    Intro

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

  • Pond

    Sweep Me Off My Feet

    • Marathon Artists.

  • Tame Impala

    Patience

    • Fiction Records.

  • Rahim Redcar (AKA: Christine and the Queens)

    Tilted

    • Because Music.

  • Broken Bells

    After The Disco

    • After The Disco.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Alvvays

    In Undertow

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Hot Chip

    One Life Stand

    • CD SINGLE.
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • 1.

  • Ladytron

    Beauty*2

    • Witching Hour.
    • Nettwerk Music Group.
    • 11.

  • Bon Iver

    Re: Stacks

    • CD SINGLE.
    • 4 A.D..
    • 1.

  • Maribou State

    Nervous Tics (feat. Holly Walker)

    • Counter.

  • The Psychedelic Furs

    Love My Way

    • White Label.

  • Doves

    Snowden

    • Heavenly.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    Always Like This

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Universal-Island.
    • 1.

  • Foals

    Olympic Airways

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Transgressive Records.
    • 1.

  • The Coral

    Being Somebody Else

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Deltasonic.
    • 1.

  • James Blake

    Limit To Your Love

    • A&M.

  • Air

    All I Need

    • Source Records.

  • The Japanese House

    Maybe You're the Reason

    • Maybe You're the Reason.
    • Dirty Hit/The Japanese House PS.
    • 1.

  • Glass Animals

    Youth

    • Wolf Tone/Caroline International.

  • Maxïmo Park

    Leave This Island

    • Too Much Information.
    • Daylighting.

  • Jungle

    The Heat

    • Jungle.
    • XL.
    • 001.

  • Jamie Woon

    Night Air

    • Polydor.

  • The Cardigans

    Carnival

    • Polydor.

  • The Stone Roses

    Shoot You Down

    • THE STONE ROSES.
    • Silvertone.

  • Swim Deep

    The Sea

    • Chess Club / RCA.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Now.

  • Jamie T

    Don't You Find

    • Virgin Records.

  • The Flaming Lips

    Race For The Prize

    • Warner Bros.

  • Metronomy

    I'm Aquarius

    • Because Music.

  • Blondie

    Rapture

    • Chrysalis.

  • First Aid Kit

    Blue

    • Wichita.

  • Röyksopp

    Eple

    • WALL OF SOUND RECORDINGS.

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

    • EMI.

  • Interpol

    NYC

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

  • The Postal Service

    We Will Become Silhouettes

    • Sub Pop.

  • DIIV

    Dopamine

    • Dopamine.
    • Captured Tracks.
    • 1.

  • Morcheeba

    The Sea

    • Warner Music UK Limited.

  • Radiohead

    Lotus Flower

    • The King of Limbs.
    • Ticker Tape Ltd..
    • 1.

  • The Orielles

    Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme)

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Deerhunter

    Revival

    • Halcyon Digest.
    • 4AD.
    • 3.

Broadcasts

  • Monday 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Thu 22 Oct 2026 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever