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Nail your tasks with these indie sounds

Lauren Laverne helps you nail your tasks, supplying three hours of incredible indie sounds.

Focus along to tunes by The Smiths, Boygenius and Beck.

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

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Music Played

  • The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now?

    • Drive Time 2 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Iceblink Luck

    • 4 A.D.

  • The National

    Nobody Else Will Be There

    • 4AD.

  • boygenius

    Me & My Dog

    • boygenius.
    • Matador.
    • 2.

  • DMA’s

    Step Up the Morphine

    • Hills End.
    • Infectious Music.
    • 6.

  • The Charlatans

    So Oh

    • BMG Chrysalis.

  • Maribou State

    Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)

    • Counter Records.

  • Kasabian

    Processed Beats

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

  • Santigold

    Disparate Youth

    • Atlantic.

  • Stereolab

    French Disko

    • Duophonic Ultra High Fre.

  • DIIV

    Under the Sun

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

  • The Cure

    A Forest

    • Fiction.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    The World Is Crowded

    • Multi-Love.
    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Broadcast

    I Found The F

    • Warp Records.

  • Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline, Pat Sansone & Wilco

    Impossible Germany

    • Sky Blue Sky.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 003.

  • Massive Attack

    Karmacoma

    • Polygram TV.

  • James Blake

    Overgrown

    • Atlas Recordings.

  • Beach House

    Myth

    • BELLA UNION.

  • Tame Impala

    'Cause I'm A Man

    • FICTION.

  • Washed Out

    Feel It All Around

    • Transparent.

  • Beck

    Hotwax

    • Odelay (deluxe edition).
    • Geffen Records.
    • 102.

  • Remus, Eric Biondo, Leah Paul, Martin Perna, Yoshi Takemasa & TV on the Radio

    DLZ

    • Dear Science.
    • 4AD.
    • 010.

  • Superorganism

    Everybody Wants To Be Famous

    • Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

  • The xx

    Sunset

    • YOUNG TURKS.

  • alt‐J

    Bloodflood Part II

    • This Is All Yours.
    • Canvasback/ATL.
    • 12.

  • Local Natives

    Wide Eyes

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Infectious.
    • 1.

  • Wolf Alice

    Planet Hunter

    • Visions Of A Life.
    • Dirty Hit.

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Darklands

    • Original Album Series.
    • WM UK.
    • 1.

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Soon

    • Creation Records.

  • Ride

    Vapour Trail

    • Creation.

  • Arcade Fire

    Reflektor

    • SONOVOX.

  • Blur

    Badhead

    • PARKLIFE.
    • FOOD.
    • 6.

  • Alvvays

    Archie, Marry Me

    • Alvvays.
    • Transgressive.
    • 001.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Black Star Dancing

    • Black Star Dancing.
    • Universal Music Italia srL..
    • 2.

  • Bloc Party

    This Modern Love

    • Silent Alarm.
    • Wichita Recordings Ltd.
    • 7.

  • The Cardigans

    Rise and Shine

    • Polygram TV.

  • The War on Drugs

    An Ocean In Between the Waves

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • Daughter

    No Care

    • 4AD.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)

    • Mmm...Records via Caroline International/Island.

  • Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile

    Over Everything

    • Milk!/Matador/Marathon Artists/Mom and Pop.

  • beabadoobee

    Coffee

    • Dirty Hit.

  • HAIM

    Falling

    • NATIONAL ANTHEM.

  • Cat Power

    The Greatest

    • Matador.

  • The 1975

    A Change of Heart

    • I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 4.

  • Rhye

    The Fall

    • Polydor.

  • Foals

    This Orient

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Warner Bros..
    • 2.

  • SOAK

    Blud

    • Rough Trade.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 14 Sep 2026 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Next Thursday 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever