Music for the hour between work and dinner

The hour between closing the laptop and putting on dinner is the one most people don't soundtrack. Either residual work-mode music keeps playing too long, or the room cuts to silence and the day's energy doesn't have anywhere to go.

Brief: low enough to mark the end of work, but not so quiet that it tips you into evening early. A handoff, not a destination. Music that lets the shoulders drop without telling them to.

What I tend to play here is the slow end of the focus playlist, or the warm end of the lo-fi one. Things with a faint pulse. Often the best track for this hour is whatever was already playing as work ended — you let it run, and the room finishes the song instead of cutting it off.

I keep meaning to make a separate playlist for this hour and never quite do. It's short enough that a five-track stretch is usually enough, and five tracks isn't really a playlist.