what do you listen to while sleeping or just really mellowing out
 

I've been staying up late the last few nights to do some serious book reading, and I haven't been getting to bed until around 5 when the birds are just starting to sing. Last night it started raining heavily where I live, I listened to Future Sound of London ISDN, and the entire Lifeforms album while simultaneously listening to the rain and morning birds, while I was relaxing off to sleep. That was a great thing.

I've been brought up listening to Neil Young's 'After the gold rush' at bedtime.There isn't another record that puts me to sleep like that one.It's a musical teddy bear.

explosions in the sky

Yoshimi & Yuka - Flower With No Color

A collaboration between super-ace drummer/trumpeteer Yoshimi (of Boredoms and OOIOO), and NY/Jap ex-Cibo Matto performer Yuka Honda. Most of this was recorded on a field trip up Mount Fuji, and then taken back to the studio for processing. The end result is a mix of birdsong, distant trumpets, glockenspiel style percussion, and the odd wobbly vocal. Sometimes ambient, sometimes jazz-cool, sometimes ethnic Japanese and sometimes just plain oddball, this all combines to make a very mellow and organic sounding CD

I can fall asleep to anything.

Drum n Bass, Hardcore Techno, Metal, etc.

Low is fine when slubering

I like this album for little naps.

Please, will you stop saying stuff that I totally agree with. As far as I know I have no long-lost twin, and if you persist in pretending that you are one I shall have no alternative but to leave the board. So there! :)

Will your wife approve though?

Oh yeah, the question...

"Post Rock" generally: Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Pelican, 65 Days of Static...

And the odd bit of "Chill Out": The Orb, Global Communication...

I have a wife as well as a long lost twin?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

I thought you were married.

Hmmm...good thread let me see here: Mono, Nick Drake, Smog, Joa Gilberto, Liars, Yellow 6.....some more maybe

that's such a great album! "mow deck in eye" is a great track.

i've been sleeping to growing and boris (lowercase boris, that is) when i'm just trying to calm my mind.

Thats very true. After the gold rush is by far his strongest album.

I also like listening to Dirty Threes' ocean songs.

No, but all being well my girlfriend and I are getting a place together later in the summer. The sale of my flat's going through at the moment, then she'll sell her place, and we'll get a small mansion* somewhere in Surrey.

* All this is true except the small mansion. It'll actually be a three bedroom semi.

It's surprising how good post-metal type music is at helping the drifting-off-to-sleep process. I guess that's easy to explain when it's drone-y type stuff, but I've been dozing off quite well to some stuff with fairly heavy riffs lately.

That's just your age