Music for a walk at night

A walk at night is a different brief from a walk in daylight. The city sounds less. The lamps make everything look further away than it is. You hear the music more clearly because there's less ambient noise to ride against it.

What works for me is music with more space than I'd play on a daytime walk. Long sustained tones, ambient that takes its time, anything where the silence between events is part of the work. The street is doing some of the work for the music; the music doesn't have to fill the whole room.

Late lo-fi works. The sleep playlist works at low volume if the walk is short and the destination is bed. Wellness can work in a quieter neighbourhood but tends to feel underdressed for a city walk; it wants a still room, not a moving one.

Volume matters more at night, partly for the neighbourhood and partly for yourself. You're walking past windows. The music in your ears shouldn't be louder than the windows are quiet.