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.
WNUA 95.5 “Double-you en you-ayyyee, ninety-five point fi’iiive”
I don’t really understand what you are looking for. Can you give an example?
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.
I find a lot of atmospheric still to chilly or cool. Like its beautiful and all but not nourishing
You might like the OST from Chocolat, or (this is more of a stretch), The moon and antarctica by Modest Mouse. If that is too uptempo, you could try the Sun Kil Moon cover album of Modest Mouse, Tiny Cities
You are tripping, the moon and Antarctica is the definition of cold.
Try listening to the first track without shivering, without thinking of winter.
EDIT: “Lives” may be the coldest one, colder even than The Cold Part.
EDIT2: I take it back, the cold part is SUPER cold. Lives is just more memorable
I totally agree, but I’m not sure OPs notion of ‘cold’ is the same as ours.
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.
They were all yellow.
Fify
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.
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.
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
