MAX RICHTER [VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASONS] 
The concerto you've a million times as you've never heard it before.

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS 
For when you're in flow (also, listen to him live in concert and enjoy his [perhaps] accidentally hilarious stories between songs! wait for the whale in the bathtub story . . . )

LUDOVICO EINAUDI 
Anything and everything by Ludovico Einaudi. Start here.

IAMBEAR 
It sounds how Iceland feels.

ERIK SATIE - GNOSSIENNE NO. 1 
Under umbrella on rainy streets of 19th century France.

ALEXANDRE DESPLATS - RIVER 
All things DesPlat are wonderful.

SHIGERU UMEBAYASHI - IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 
I imagine this Japanese movie to be the most haunting romance ever.

PARADIS - RECTO VERSO 
Jovial French low-fi. The whole entire album.

PETER GUNDRY - VÖLUR
Haunting.

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO & ALVO NOTO - THE REVENANT 
Low resonance

MATTHEW SCHOENING - EMOTIONAL CLOCKWORK
Infinite loop and recursion.

CLANN'S SEELIE 
Universal pulse.

AGNES OBEL - THE CURSE  
Soft, undulating, harmonic.

FEJKÀ 
Dulcet tones.

DEVORZHUM - DEAD CAN DANCE 
Melancholic World Beat with a soothing Eastern rhythm.

JAMIE XX - I DON'T KNOW 
Hypnotic club beat.

AYUB OGADA - KOTHBIRO  
(from the Constant Gardener)
Literally "rain is coming" Dholuo.  Soul saddening and soothing.

TWO LANES - LIVE FROM MÁLAGA, SPAIN 
Smooth tracks.