Chet Baker, the West Coast jazz pro who inspired his pseudonym. Serenity is achieved in just about all of Eno’s records, but our personal favourite is the piano-centric Ambient 1: Music For Airports. If you haven’t heard of Eno, you’ve probably heard his sonic contributions in films like Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, Traffic, Trainspotting, and Blue. The activist, producer, thinker, visual artist, and musician has a bountiful discography of immersive listening experiences, that shut down the body and open up the mind. Arguably, to this day, no one’s been able to top his atmospheric, unstructured musical passages.

Soundscape aficionado Brian Eno publicized the term ‘ambient music’ back in the ’70s. If Bon Iver Bon Iver is the muscle-relaxer of the folk-realm, then single Holocene is the metaxalone equivalent. An album so inebriating they named it twice, Bon Iver Bon Iver flows effortlessly, while still containing expansive, lush instrumentation and sophisticated arrangements. However, when seeking his most relaxing music, there’s one record a cut above the rest: his self-titled sophomore.

Soft relaxation music for sleep