How Ambient Music Helps Quiet the Mind

Bleeps and bloops quiet thoughts and allow for greater focus.

Austin Harvey
5 min readNov 30, 2020

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For as successful as Radiohead’s Kid A was, it is still a rarity to find any sort of ambient music entering the mainstream.

The 1975 — arguably the world’s biggest indie pop group — have dabbled with ambient tracks on their records, from the title track of I like it when

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Austin Harvey

Writer, editor, and podcast host. Currently a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Host of History Uncovered and Conspiracy Realists.