What's a good chill album or tune to listen to while drinking coffee or tea?

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ALBUMS:

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Wax Tailor - Que Sera EP

Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons

Amon Tobin - Bricolage

DJ Spooky - Songs of a Dead Dreamer

The Secret Whistle - Capturing Something

Daedelus - Rethinking the Weather

MF DOOM - Books of War

Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2

SONGS:

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm

Diplo - Works

Fela Kuti - Zombie

Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Mr. Dibbs - Bamboo

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

Toonami Beats - Strings

DJ Spooky Vs. the Freight Elevator Quartet- Downtempo Manifesto

Massive Attack - Protection (Trip Hop from 1994)

I live the mezzanine album but never listened to this one. Will do, thanks for the reccomendation

Mezzanine is the gold standard for me, but always good to explore and expand.

Air - Moon Safari. The father of chill downtempo music.

Anything post-rock...

  • God is an astronaut
  • Red Sparowes
  • Mogwai
  • Sigur Ros
  • Explosions in the sky

Etc. Etc.

begins relaxing to Godspeed You! Black Emperor

This is a post-rock band I just ... I don't know ... everyone praises them, but songs I've heard did not really convince me. It was somehow very different.

Even more than e.g. Mono and that's Japanese band. And we all know how weird Japan things can be.

I'm with you, unfortunately. Every so often I go back to try again because it feels so much like I should like their stuff, but it just never sticks. Glad that so many people are getting something from it, but I think I'm just not ever going to be one of them

My first thought was Explosions in the Sky, nice to see it already listed.

I listen to all these except never heard of Red Sparrows, guess I'll have to check them out

I finally get to my PC, so here's more:

  • Hammock
  • Appalaches
  • Unsigned Char
  • PG.lost
  • Bound (more of shoegaze)
  • Caves of Steel
  • Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson (more rock-ish, but great)
  • Coastlands
  • Distant Dream (more guitar soloing)
  • El Ten Eleven (more electronic)
  • El Altar Del Holocausto
  • Goodbye Earth
  • I/O
  • Neil on Impression
  • Nice Wings, Icarus!
  • No One Wished To Settle Hereafter
  • Old Solar
  • Random Forest
  • Redjetson
  • Rhone
  • Seanné
  • Sleepmakeswaves
  • Souls Vibrating in the Universe
  • This Patch of Sky
  • Upcdownc
  • We Deserve This
  • The End of the Ocean
  • DiEgita

Most of these can be found on Bandcamp. Let me know if you like something.

Definitely do. They have quite distinct sound due to usage of lap steel guitar. I like it a lot.

I'll check my collection for more bands like this if you'd like.

Ray Lamontagne, Trouble. Massive Attack, Mezzanine. Boards of Canada, Geogaddi. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. Royksopp, Melody AM.

One of the chillest, good vibe albums I have ever listen to blind was Masayoshi Takanaka's - All of me.

The youtube comment that was at the top of the video that I listened to years ago summed up the experience nicely, "No one searches for this album, it finds you when you need it.

Lo-Fi Girl on YT

Is Lo-Fi basically high-tech furniture music essentially?

Bit late, but a few recommendations, some already mentioned:

  • Massive Attack - Blue Lines
  • Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
  • Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
  • John Coltrane - Blue Train
  • Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST and Fire Walk With Me OST
  • Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

If you have Coltrane in there, I must mention "A love supreme"

Then I really must listen to it!

I really only know Blue Train, but I absolutely love it. Will get A Love Supreme on sharpish, thanks for the recommendation.

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

Sasha - Airdrawndagger

Com Truise - Persuasion System

Commix - Call to Mind

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Arvo Pärt - Portrait (Angèle Dubeau, La Pietà 2010) (or anything really)

Radio Free Fedi comfy channel

Radio Free Fedi is a fantastic service! Love it!!

Man, RFF and Pixelfed are literally the best things on the internet right now! I think RFF is basically one disabled guy in New Zealand who is not massively techy, holding the whole thing up for us. I've been thinking of volunteering in some capacity. It almost takes me back to my childhood, where every song meant something to me. Proper real music.

Anything by the sounds providers is my jam. The album with surreal is great, although I do prefer “an evening with the sound providers”.

It’s kinda chill hop but a bit more jazzy.

Past Lives by Doombird is nice background music. Not too deep, but pleasant.

Can't go wrong with anything jazz

Uncultured seeming option, but I nevertheless use it often to read and like it: Lo-fi beats to relax and study to playlist.