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Songs to help you relax and unwind. Updated every Sunday.

Discover new music from artists we think you'll like. Refreshed every Friday.

Whether it’s a weekday morning or Saturday night, get going with this personalised mix of upbeat music. Refreshed every Monday.

Named because they believe “whales and dolphins are friends”, Whal & Dolph blend soft rock and whirring guitar lines with infectious pop melodies. Their music takes inspiration from the melancholy of late ‘90s Radiohead, the quirky indie electronica of Foster the People and Lana Del Rey's pop psychedelia.

Breathy, breezy but plenty expressive, this playlist captures the mellow, singer-songwriter-y side of pop and indie. Though it leans mostly on new stuff, we’ve mixed in a few classics for comfort’s sake. Because sometimes a light touch is all you need. We update these tracks regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Just because something is mellow doesn’t mean it can’t be interesting—consider the bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto, whose whisper-quiet approach covered over a world of detail. The music here—a mix of folk, psychedelia and other acoustic sounds from around the world—isn’t intrusive. If anything, it’s the kind of stuff you could happily have on without noticing, or at least without having to focus on. But it’s also the kind of gently exploratory stuff that can rearrange your perceptions if you let it. Our editors update picks regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

As anyone who practices yoga knows, shavasana is the most deceptively simple pose in the book. Sure, you’re just lying there. But you’re lying there actively, observantly—a state of meditative awareness that doesn’t have any good comparison in our daily lives. The challenge, it turns out, isn’t moving. It’s being still. In that spirit, here’s a playlist of calm but focused music to help guide you towards that elusive place. Our editors update selections here regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.