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Your soundtrack for taking it easy

Two hours of calm indie sounds to sink into, with laid-back favourites and dreamy tracks to help you unwind.

With tunes by Fleet Foxes, Doves, Keane and loads more!

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

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Music Played

  • Travis

    Coming Around

    • Independiente.

  • Phoebe Bridgers

    Scott Street

    • Stranger in the Alps.
    • Dead Oceans.

  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • Island.

  • Massive Attack

    Protection (feat. Tracey Thorn)

    • Wild Bunch.

  • Sigur Rós

    Gold

    • Von Dur / BMG.

  • Björk

    Violently Happy

    • One Little Indian.

  • The Futureheads

    Radio Heart

  • Real Estate

    Talking Backwards

    • Atlas.
    • DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD.
    • 001.

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Just Like Honey

    • Emperor Norton.

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Something to Talk About

    • Twisted Nerve.

  • The War on Drugs

    Pain

    • Atlantic Records.

  • First Aid Kit

    Emmylou

    • WITCHITA.

  • Kings of Leon

    Notion

    • Only By The Night.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Suck It & See

    • DOMINO.

  • Starsailor

    Lullaby

    • Chrysalis.

  • Alanis Morissette

    Thank U

    • (CD Single).
    • Maverick.

  • Blind Melon

    No Rain

    • Capitol.

  • Richard Ashcroft

    Music Is Power

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.

  • Japanese Breakfast

    Boyish

    • Soft Sounds from Another Planet.
    • Dead Oceans.
    • 6.

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Under The Bridge

    • Columbia.

  • Joy Division

    Atmosphere

    • Factory.

  • Marika Hackman

    Ophelia

    • Dirty Hit Records.

  • Wilco

    War On War

    • Nonesuch.

  • Doves

    Break Me Gently

  • Bright Eyes

    First Day Of My Life

    • SADDLE CREEK.

  • Radical Face

    Welcome Home

    • The Blacklist (Music from the Television Series).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Ezra Furman

    Love You So Bad

    • Bella Union.

  • Suede

    Stay Together

    • EMI.

  • Paul Weller

    All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You)

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Air

    Sexy Boy

    • Source Records.

  • Foals

    Spanish Sahara

    • Transgressive.

  • Stereolab

    Jenny Ondioline

    • Island.

Broadcasts

  • Sunday 17:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Thursday 04:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
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