Collection · Albums
Albums I Study With
Records that hold the room together while I think.
The best study album is the one I forget I'm playing. These are records I can put on at midnight when the deadline is at 9am, and trust the room to stay quiet enough for the work.
Blonde
Frank Ocean · 2016
Slow weather. The lack of drums lets thinking happen between bars.
In Rainbows
Radiohead · 2007
The rhythm section grooves so steadily that the prefrontal cortex can lift off.
A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead · 2016
Greenwood's strings are an exoskeleton for focus.
Music for Airports
Brian Eno
The whole point. Designed for thinking — explicitly.
Selected Ambient Works 85–92
Aphex Twin
When the work is dense, this matches the density without distracting.