Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music does not fix anything, and no such claim is being made for it. What it gives is light enough to see by during a bad stretch, which is a smaller and more accurate promise: the stretch stays hard, and you are less alone in it for the length of a song. Anyone who has got through a hard month on one particular record knows the difference between relief and rescue.

So use it deliberately rather than as background. Put on the thing that matches where you actually are, not where you would prefer to be. Being accompanied in a mood shifts it more reliably than being argued out of it.