@thunderbird I find the genre, artist or album doesn't really matter. The more familiar I am with the song, the more likely it is it'll become background music and I can focus on work. My recommendation is Carpenter Brut's 'Trilogy', for all my fellow 80s dark synth fans out there.
It's fascinating how different our tendencies can be when it comes to focusing. The more familiar I am with a song, the more likely I am to be drawn into it.
@thunderbird music without lyrics. I find the “beats to think to” playlist from Spotify (or actually an old version of it that I exported to Apple Music) hits the sweet spot and helps me get in the zone and focus. Works for many colleagues too who I recommended it too.
@thunderbird And if I’m not in the mood for bounce/want something calmer, than some quiet classical music (preferably piano), such as Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma or one of the suitable Apple Classical playlists (Piano Chill, Calm Classical, etc) where I actually discovered those artists in the first place.
(And yes, my taste in music is actually quite eclectic 😄).
@thunderbird I have the same problem. I usually listen to the playlist Hackers Coffee on Spotify. But also sometimes on french jazz as I don't understand french making it less distracting than languages I do understand.
@thunderbird In my last job the radio was playing all the time and I learned to tune it out after a while. Personally I only listen to music when it's lighter work and not too focus-intensive. I find instrumentals distracting as well because I hear the names of the notes as they play so I'll have this beautiful track playing and my mind will be like "E F# G# E B G F#" in the background.
@thunderbird I had a phase of listening to music while programming. It felt energising and I'd get in a rhythm. Mostly game music, because there's fewer lyrics. Darren Korb's tracks for the Supergiant Games games (especially Transistor) are awesome!
@phils First of all: excellent music taste! But you possess concentration skills I will never have -- I'd be too compelled to watch or at the very least sing along 😜
@thunderbird Night Drive by Timecop1983 is one of my goto albums to focus. It’s not completely without lyrics, but there aren’t many, and it works for me. I think there is also an instrumental-only version.
@thunderbird Depends on the work. If it's got to do with words together and texts - definitely no lyrics (or lyrics in languages I don't unterstand a single word). But with anything else lyrics are no problem.
btw: Listening to music with lyrics while reading fiction in my sparetime has to be in the same language the text I read is. Otherwise I don't remember what I read a minute ago :)
@karnasubarna Nice! LoFi Girl is one of my go-to sources, but I also made a couple old school mixtapes with some of my favorite instrumental downtempo tracks. We'll be sharing that soon!
@funcrunch@truls46 Interesting! I can manage to listen to instrumental music if I'm working in a spreadsheet or doing something more administrative that doesn't require writing. But the second any level of creative writing is required -- even writing an email -- I normally need silence, too.
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