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Stay productive with this indie mix

Indie music to help clear your head and tackle the task ahead, with plenty of focused sounds to keep you going.

Featuring tunes by Michael Kiwanuka, Mazzy Star, Beach House and loads more!

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

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Music Played

  • Friendly Fires

    Paris

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Local Natives

    When Am I Gonna Lose You

    • Violet Street.
    • Loma Vista Recordings.
    • 2.

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love)

    • KIWANUKA.
    • Polydor Records.

  • Laura Marling

    Soothing

    • Semper Femina.
    • More Alarming Records / Kobalt.

  • Big Thief

    Velvet Ring

    • Masterpiece.
    • 4AD.

  • Blur

    Good Song

    • Think Tank.
    • Parlophone.

  • Warpaint

    Love Is To Die

    • Rough Trade.

  • The Maccabees

    Kamakura

    • Marks To Prove It.
    • Fiction.
    • 2.

  • Kavinsky

    Nightcall (feat. Lovefoxxx)

    • Nightcall.
    • Universal Music Division Virgin Music.
    • 1.

  • Pond

    Paint Me Silver

    • The Weather.
    • EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
    • 3.

  • Glass Animals

    Gooey

    • Wolf Tone / Caroline Music.

  • Mazzy Star

    Flowers In December

    • Among My Swan.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 2.

  • The National

    This is the Last Time

    • Trouble Will Find Me.
    • 4AD.
    • 7.

  • Beach House

    Other People

    • Bloom.
    • Sub Pop Records.
    • 4.

  • The Postal Service

    Such Great Heights

    • Subpop.

  • Metronomy

    16 Beat

    • Because Music.

  • The xx

    Basic Space

    • The xx.
    • Young.
    • 8.

  • Broadcast

    The Book Lovers

    • Duophonic Super 45s ‎.

  • Miike Snow

    Animal

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Spector

    All The Sad Young Men

    • Moth Boys.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • CHVRCHES

    Recover

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

  • The Cure

    Plainsong

    • Disintegration.
    • Fiction.
    • 301.

  • Cocteau Twins & Robert Smith

    Cherry-Coloured Funk

    • Heaven or Las Vegas.
    • 4AD.
    • 001.

  • Washed Out

    Floating By

    • Stones Throw Records.

  • Bon Iver

    29 #Strafford APTS

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Bloc Party

    So Here We Are

    • Wichita.

  • Grimes

    Oblivion

    • 4 A.D.

  • alt‐J

    3WW

    • Relaxer.
    • Infectious Music.
    • 1.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Cities In Dust

    • BEST OF SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES.
    • Polydor.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Roy's Tune

    • Dogrel.
    • Partisan Records.
    • 6.

  • Atoms for Peace

    Before Your Very Eyes

    • XL.

  • Pale Saints

    Sight Of You

    • 4AD.

  • Feist

    My Moon My Man

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Polydor.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Soft Shock

    • It's Blitz!.
    • Geffen.
    • 3.

  • The Neighbourhood

    Sweater Weather

    • I'm Sorry....
    • the [r]evolve group.
    • 4.

  • Foals

    Night Swimmers

    • What Went Down.
    • Warner Records.
    • 7.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    The Golden Path (feat. The Flaming Lips)

    • Virgin.

  • Gwenno

    Patriarchaeth

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Björk

    Venus As A Boy

    • One Little Indian Record.

  • Two Door Cinema Club

    This Is the Life

    • Tourist History.
    • Kitsune.
    • 4.

  • James Blake

    The Wilhelm Scream

    • CD SINGLE.
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Low

    Lies

    • Sub Pop Records.

  • Yuck

    Stutter

    • Yuck.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Sonic Youth

    Superstar

    • Geffen.

  • Broken Social Scene

    Guilty Cubicles

    • Feel Good Lost.
    • Arts & Crafts.
    • 2.

  • Zero 7

    In The Waiting Line

    • Ultimate Dilemma.

  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

    Sleep Drifter

    • Flying Microtonal Banana.
    • Heavenly Recordings.
    • 4.

  • Tame Impala

    Jeremy's Storm

    • InnerSpeaker.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wednesday 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever