Listen to one full album lying on your floor, doing nothing else. Remember when music used to feel like that?

Music made as a sequence works differently when you let it run as one. Shuffling turns an album into forty separate items; playing it through gives you the shape somebody built, the slow track that only makes sense after the loud one, the ending that needed the whole middle. Half-listening while doing something else cuts the thing down to background. What you lose is not quality but attention.

Pick an album you already like and give it the whole running time with nothing else happening. Do not check your phone between tracks. Forty minutes is less than you will spend scrolling tonight anyway.