These hours-long music mixes can help soothe anxious thoughts and increase focus.
, an assistant professor of music at Hampden-Sydney College and author of a forthcoming book on the history of the ambient music genre, says, and the genre surged in popularity in the late 2010s and early 2020s. If you're not already a lo-fi fan, take a second and search the term on YouTube to see just how popular this genre is right now. Listeners have hundreds of recently added mixes to choose from, plus old favorites with view counts up in the millions.
Ambient music is consumed in a similar way — in hours-long video streams or playlists — but is a"stylistically distinct genre," Szabo says. It's grown from New Age, psychedelic rock and pop, jazz, and experimental classical music. It has a more classical feel when you listen to it, as opposed to the slow hip-hop beats of lo-fi.
If you're wondering if the music can also help with anxiety and stress, experts say it's possible. While it's unlikely that lo-fi ambient music can address any mental health issue at the root, it"can certainly affect one's mood and productivity in the moment," Szabo says."It can demarcate a time and space to be focused and creative; its consistent and smooth sounds are useful for 'drowning out the noise' .
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