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Find your calm with some indie

Let two hours of dreamy indie wash over you, with mellow favourites and soft sounds to help the day melt away.

Expect sounds from Alt-J, Royksopp, The XX and loads more.

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

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Music Played

  • Vampire Weekend

    This Life

    • Columbia.

  • Paul Weller

    Wild Wood

    • ISLAND.

  • Rufus Wainwright

    Crumb By Crumb

    • Dreamworks.

  • alt‐J

    Hunger Of The Pine

    • This Is All Yours.
    • Infectious Music.
    • 001.

  • Röyksopp

    So Easy

    • Tellé.

  • The xx

    Heart Skipped A Beat

    • XX.
    • Young.

  • MGMT

    Congratulations

  • Midlake

    Roscoe

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Bella Union.

  • Tracy Chapman

    She's Got Her Ticket

    • Elektra.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Roy's Tune

    • Dogrel.
    • Partisan Records.
    • 6.

  • The Verve

    Sonnet

    • Hut Music.

  • Joanna Newsom

    81.0

    • Have One On Me.
    • Drag City Records.
    • 3.

  • Embrace

    Gravity

    • Independiente.

  • Phoebe Bridgers

    Saviour Complex

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Richard Hawley

    Serious

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Mute.

  • Nirvana

    About A Girl

    • Geffen Records ‎.

  • Band of Horses

    No One's Gonna Love You

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Sub Pop.

  • Lana Del Rey

    Cinnamon Girl

    • Norman F Rockwell!.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 7.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Let Robeson Sing

    • Universal Music.

  • First Aid Kit

    My Silver Lining

    • Stay Gold.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Beautiful South

    Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)

    • (CD Single).
    • Go! Discs.

  • Whitney

    Polly

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

    40 Day Dream

  • Neon Indian

    Deadbeat Summer

    • Popfrenzy Records.

  • Pixies

    Where Is My Mind?

    • 4 A.D..

  • Laura Marling

    Blues Run The Game

    • Single.
    • Third Man.
    • 1.

  • Oasis

    Half The World Away

    • Universal.

  • Doves

    The Man Who Told Everything

    • Heavenly.

  • Super Furry Animals

    If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You

    • Creation Records.

  • The Cure

    Catch

    • Fiction.

  • The National

    Nobody Else Will Be There

    • 4AD.

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