Making the perfect work/study/chill playlist is the finest of arts, which is why, TBH, I've largely stopped trying. Don't get me wrong — I still have a "what I'm listening to now" playlist, a generic workout playlist, and a go-to driving playlist. But when it comes to my workday playlists (i.e., the music I'm listening to while I'm reading, working, or even trying to relax), I leave that up to the experts who put together lo-fi and ambient music mixes on YouTube. For the uninitiated, lo-fi is short for "low-fidelity," a subgenre of electronic music that's characterized by a "professional or flawed sound quality," causing it to sound fuzzy. Lo-fi "has roots in instrumental hip-hop, lounge, house, and downtempo pop," says Victor Szabo, an assistant professor of music at Hampden-Sydney College and author of a forthcoming book on the history of the ambient music genre, and the genre surged in popularity in the late 2010s and...
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