Soar

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/against-chill-apathetic-music-to-make-spreadsheets-to

"Although I recognize the utility of listening to non-distracting study music, I nonetheless find it disheartening to see art being reconfigured, over and over again, as a tool for productivity—and then, when the work is finally done, as a tool for coming down from the work. It’s especially disconcerting to see the practice of active listening (which can be a creative act as well as a wildly pleasurable one) denigrated, dismissed, or ignored. Background music is hardly a new development, but, previously, these sorts of experiences were mostly relegated to elevators and waiting rooms; now the groundless consumption of music has become omnipresent."

It certainly sounds emptier than your normal elevator music which at least covered the classics, but imagine feeling nostalgia for that stuff.

This year I have been unable to do this kind of "passive listening", which I consider a good habit, even if I'm hearing a lot less music than usual. It's a good intro for the payoffs and the price of focus, something I really want to improve on other things besides the inherently passive media consumption