Listen to one album start to finish with nothing else open. You’ll hear the artist and yourself differently.

Attention changes what you get back. An album heard in fragments between other tabs gives you a few hooks; the same one heard whole and in order, with nothing competing, gives you the shape somebody built on purpose. It also leaves room for your own thoughts to run alongside, which is why music heard properly can tell you things about your week.

Pick one album and give it forty minutes with nothing else open. Lie down or walk, but do not multitask it. Notice which track turned out to be the one that got you, since that reaction is as much about where you are now as about the music.