Albums That Help You Drift Off

I have quite many such albums. I generally prefer listening to the albums that I know by heart to drift off; otherwise it may get harder to fall into sleep. One thing to add: flute & harp music and harpsichord music also help me a lot in that. 

Here are some of those albums:

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Collage - Moonshine
Stratovarius - Visions
Therion - Theli
Therion - Vovin
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Keldian - Journey of Souls
Keldian - Heaven's Gate
Keldian - Darkness and Light
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Prometheus
Luca Turilli - King of the Nordic Twilight
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Beyond Twilight - Section X
Opeth - Morningrise

The melodic Peter Gabriel era Genesis albums. That's not to say I don't like them. It's just that I've been listening to them again at bedtime every night for the past week and I've never got beyond the second track on any album before I fall asleep. It's more likely that the poppy albums from the 1980's Phil Collins era would keep me awake at night though, which is definitely a bad thing. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 09 2021 at 11:21

Dave Gilmour - On An Island

Eberhard Weber - Pendulum

How could I blasphemously forget Amorphis - Tuonela?.. It's gotta be in my top 5, at worst.

Usually I drift off to some comedy, spoken word, or audiobook. Has to be something I’m very familiar with already - the point is not to listen, just to have a vague focal point for my consciousness to rest on as the rest of the body winds down. Not unlike meditation. I do not like to go to bed without having something on the earphones.

Music-wise, anything is fair game, so long as I know it very well, it’s relatively free from sudden changes in volume, and is an album or artist that generally makes me happy/comfortable. Droning/abstract is best. For a couple of months recently it was 200 Motels by Zappa, a pretty atypical choice due to its jarring contrasts between orchestral music and Flo/Eddie yapping away. Luckily the album was recorded so poorly that such shifts do not disturb my sleep.

I just had a wonderful dream-like out-of-body experience while napping to GLEB KOLYADIN's latest release, Water Moevements, a collection of solo all-instrumental keyboard (mostly beautifully-recorded piano) songs--beautifully produced by Vlad Avy. 

The first time I heard the debut album by U.K., I was really tired and half-asleep, and I was actually seeing the music.  It was a really nice non-chemically enhanced trip.

Blacksword wrote: chopper wrote: Dark Side of the Moon normally does it for me, but I reckon most Floyd albums would probably do the same (btw, I do like them but everything they do is at that kind of pace). The clocks chiming on Time always wakes me up if I try to drift off to DSOTM!