Blossom

Blossom

Brian Eno famously defined ambient as music that is “as ignorable as it is interesting”: easy enough in concept but deceptively hard to execute. Mixing new voices with classic tracks, here’s a playlist of music whose smooth contours and subtle shifts in pattern and tone make it as useful for listening in as tuning out—wallpaper you can get lost in. Our editors update picks regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

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