I recently asked my Facebook friends for some new music suggestions. I was particularly looking for music and artists they listened to when the coffee’s wearin’ thin and they’re in desperate need of some focus. The response was overwhelming and I had to share. Here’s the full list. Happy listening! Get back to work! It’s not the weekend… yet…
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Classical. Baroque to be specific.
Bossa Nova (multiple votes!)
John Coltrane’s album “Blue Train”
Sonny Rollins’s album “The Bridge”
Stereolab
Beethoven’s Seventh by the London Symphony
Spotify’s Brain Food playlist
Tycho (multiple votes!)
God Speed You Black Emperor (multiple votes!)
Tortoise
Sigur Ros
Miles Davis
Phish (studio albums only!)
Pretty Lights
Aphex Twin (multiple votes!)
Sts9
Astrud Gilberto
Sergio Mendes
Walter Wanderly
The New Pornographers’s new album “Whiteout Condition”
The High Art soundtrack
Miles Davis’s album “Kind of Blue”
Debussy
Beach House (multiple votes!)
Explosions in the Sky (multiple votes!)
The End of the Ocean
Washed Out
Squarepusher
The Social Network soundtrack
Ritual
Bon Iver
Olafur Arnalds
Max Richter
Nils Frahm
The Zelda Soundtrack
Spotify’s Vietnam War Era Music
Iron & Wine
Spotify’s RetroWave/ Outrun playlist
Loscil
New Brighton’s album “Sketches”
Handel’s “Water Music”
James Horner
Bonobo
Prefuse 73
Lemon Jelly (my favorite so far!)
Mingus or other jazz
Haim’s album “Something to Say”
Toubab Krewe’s self titled album
Townes Van Zandt
Colter Wall
Son House
Devendra Banhart
Milk & Bone
Erik Satie
Grouper
Boards of Canada
Do Make Say Think
Vitamin String Quartet
The Pride and Prejudice soundtrack
Clutchy Hopkins
The Speedbumps’s new album “When the Darkness Comes”
Lo-fi Chill Out YouTube channels
Frodus’s album “And We Washed our Weapons in the Sea”
This Will Destroy You
Pelican
The Dirty Heads’s album “A Port in Any Storm”
Amelie soundtrack
Maurice Ravel
Russian Circles
Purity Ring (“Also good for casting spells,” my girl Abernathy)
