5d ago

What are some good neutral albums?

Sort of fascinated by the notion of neutral music that isnt really cool/cold or warm

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I don't really understand what you are looking for. Can you give an example?
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cxo7H_BFidQ
  
  Sounds more melancholic to mean than neutral, but maybe that's subjective. I don't know of any specific album that sounds like this though, besides more slow piano music.
  Maybe try some atmospheric music. You will find tons of it on Youtube and elsewhere. Some faster, some slower. Most of it is pretty neutral.
AWOLNATION
Sharp edged & heavy but nice for napping, with it on low volume in headphones. Has a dreamy quality. Not warm, not cold or expansive. Something about it is neutral to me.
Father John Misty, most of his catalog.
A lot of alternative rock stuff is very neutral sounding to me, not warm or cool, it's between.
Easy listening may be what you are looking for. Also Coldplay is farely beige.
- I thought they were yellow
  
  I see what you did there.
WNUA 95.5 “Double-you en you-ayyyee, ninety-five point fi’iiive”
Any adult contemporary album
Soliloquy for Lilith by Nurse With Wound
Is what you're looking for perhaps Elevator Music or Muzak??
- Definitely, lounge
  
  To me that isn't neutral music at all tho, it always sounds very warm for me... Like the evening cooldown after a very hot day. And I like that about it.
  The actual "genre" that comes closest imo is Bossa Nova, think Girl from Ipanema.
BoC - Music has the right to children
TIL my taste in music is considered "neutral". I think I'm insulted.
- I didn't even know music had a temperature! I still have so much to learn about earth culture.
  
  Not super common I guess, but I find temperature describing a valid way of describing how music feels to you... Closely related to matching colours to music, which seems more generally accepted as being a 'real' thing
  https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/music-and-temperature.html?m=1
  _Cold: high-pitched, clear, dry, minimalistic sounds. Metal, ice, brittle materials breaking. Abrupt changes. Sharp sounds, with reverberation. Clear, precise, correct, sterile. Digital, technological. Lack of emotion.
  Hot: Pleasant, immersive sounds, without abrupt changes. Muffled sounds, as if heard through a warm blanket. Warmth = wellbeing. Rich, deep, low sounds. The sound of soft materials melting. Human, analogue, non-digital. Love, closeness, emotion._
  And also for example how a high quality vinyl record playing on old school decent stereo can really feel very different (warmer) from all other ways of listening to the same music... In general imo society did lose audio quality (warmth) when moving away from vinyl and big stereos to digital and pc speakers, Bluetooth speakers, earplugs... it's still the pinnacle listening experience for albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owt7tTdWLpY
Gorillaz - to binge.
This is pretty neutral:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2YLc5cZHZI&list=RDj2YLc5cZHZI&start_radio=1
Loveless by my bloody valentine isn't cold or warm to me, but it is underwater.
Two words: math rock
- Where to start reccomendation
  
  Hear last year's Toe here.
  
  Elephant Gym - Underwater
  
  Mute Math

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