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Mark McGuire - Music for Sleeping: Volume One - For Infants & Young Children (no label, 2018)

I like Mark McGuire and I always like a good "music for sleeping" album. Hard to find good albums to sleep to. What's with those Spotify playlists with like 8 minute tracks? And as soon as you start falling asleep it changes? Cmon. Here's 4 25 minute tracks McGuire put together to help his infant daughter get to sleep and stay asleep. I can't attest to how they work on kids but they are pretty effective - don't expect much though, these tracks are all borderline white noise. Not like ambient music posing as music to sleep to, like actual sleep-machine sounds. So not terribly exciting, but effective I suppose.

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