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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

The tracks you can’t get enough of lately, all in one place.

These sedate, ambient and atmospheric tracks add a gentle touch of colour to bedtime. All are specially chosen to fade into the background, facilitating deep relaxation just when you need it most. We regularly refresh this playlist. If you like a mood, add it to your library.

In the late 1910s, the French composer Erik Satie came up with a concept he called “furniture music”—sounds designed more for passive listening than active engagement. It’s a useful idea in thinking about the history of ambient music in general, but it feels especially applicable to the wave of lo-fi/chill-hop that has washed over the digital world 100 years later: soundtracks for studying, reading, resting, cooking or whatever; more a sonic companion than a point of focus. With that, here’s a playlist of low-key, hip-hop-influenced beats to keep you company, whatever the errand—the furniture music for the 2020s. Our editors update picks here regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Relive your favourite tracks from 2018, all in one playlist.

Relive your favourite tracks from 2019, all in one playlist.

The clouds are grey, the sky is still. Then, in the distance, you hear it. Like its frequent companion rain, thunderstorms are as much an auditory experience as a physical one—after all, there isn’t much to hear on a sunny day. So sink in and take comfort: Here’s a set of thunderstorm recordings you can enjoy without getting wet. Our editors change things around regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.