Music to Chill by for the End of the Week

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I’m sure there are fellow 'dopers here who, like me, enjoy ending their work days and/or week with some choice music, what I refer to as my Sound*Therapy.
This is an excellent way to decompress and cleanse myself of the grime the job(s) has used to dirty me the past few days, and I’m very curious what other bands and albums you’d all like to listen to in pursuing the same valuable state of mind. I"m NOT asking for opinions on any particular bands or albums, just what aural escape pods we like to listen to at the end of week.
For me today, it was this classic from 1973, Led Zeppelin’s 5th studio album,
“Houses of the Holy”, with these essential songs:
-The Song Remains The Same.
-The Rain Song
-Over The Hills and Far Away
-The Crunge
-Dancing Days
-D’yer M’aker
-No Quarter
-The Ocean


List away, Straight*Dopers!

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Roxy Music - “Avalon”

Perfect Friday chill music.

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I’m loving the new Phish album which has a few reimaged Trey songs. Here is a live version of his song Evolve after it has evolved enough to be Phish. BTW, it’s a great album.

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About eight years ago, I discovered tropical house, a genre made up of djs who construct a more mellow sound than you typically think of when you think of house music. I found a few YouTube videos that were about 90-minute long Kygo mixes. Those videos have since been taken down, but I’m seeing Kygo in concert next month and he’s still one of my top picks for chilling!

If you’re not familiar with his stuff, I’d recommend checking out one of his remixes of a song that’s familiar to you. He did great remixes of Sexual Healing, Take On Me, Higher Love, and What’s Love got to Do with It.

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my goto music to come/calm down:

Bossa Nova

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Morcheeba hits my chill spot. I’ve been listening to Blackest Blue a lot recently.

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Sultans of Swing, which was actually inspired when Knopfler ducked into a pub to get out of the rain and encountered the worst band he’d ever heard.

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The Smiths - “Oscillate Wildly” (if you do not know it, probably not what you would expect in a good way)

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I know at least two radio stations which play this at some point during a Friday show.

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Was a long week last night and I wrapped it up be laying on the couch and listening to Portishead’s self-titled second album as I browsed around on my tablet and started to unwind.

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Cool af, thanks, that was indeed good in an unexpected way. I think now 1of my unthought goals for this thread was to find new music from bands/singers I’d always meant to get into but for some reason never got around to checking out; The Smiths are 1of those bands, especially Johnny Marr’s chill guitar playing, plus this song is minus the sometimes insufferable Morrisey. Now, of course, I need a dose of “How Soon Is Now?” and this may make it an '80s alternative weekend for my Sound*Therapy! You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar :sunglasses: :call_me_hand: