I have to have the television on to fall asleep always have since I was little. Well now I am old or just a lighter sleeper but I find myself waking more frequently and I think it is from the light changes (though I have the picture setting quite dark and the blues removed).
I am trying to fall asleep to music. Though it seems I need a pretty specific type. There has to be vocals, it has to be somewhat up beat, and stay in a higher octive.
A huge help if it is on Amazon Prime music as I have that little bedroom spy echo dot thing I use for tunes.
So far the best I have come across is

Owl City
The Postal Service
Snow Patrol

Deas Vail is really good too put it is only on the paid upgrade of Amazon.
Deas Vail

Enya and Enigma have some good ones but they tend to get into the lower octaves much more.

It is weird as these samples are nothing like music that I normally listen to which ranges from lots of country to heavy heavy rock like Five Finger Death Punch. I really enjoy Classical music and that did wonders when I was in High School and College and needed study music. Classical was the first I tried out and it did not help me fall asleep.

The ones I have listed give me almost a trance like feeling laying in the dark listening to them almost like I am floating or weightless and no alcohol or other mind altering substance has been used.

I don't even know what one calls this genre of music to really search for more of it.

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I feel for you as I am not the best sleeper. Have you tried white noise or nature sounds maybe crickets?

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Originally posted by cslinger:
I feel for you as I am not the best sleeper. Have you tried white noise or nature sounds maybe crickets?

Not tried the crickets but white noise must sound like water to me in my sleep as I seem to have to get up and pee a couple times the times I tried it.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
I don't even know what one calls this genre of music to really search for more of it.

Indie rock in the most general sense, but it sounds like you like the electronica instrument sounds, so maybe I'd say somewhere in the chillwave/synthwave/indietronica area?

I have an iPhone app that plays numerous nature sounds ranging from water, to crickets, to fire etc. works well for me.

Electronica music works as well but the whole other person in bed thing is a pesky nightly problem.

I can never sleep. Been that way since I was a kid. I need to be physically exhausted to sleep.

Tried music, it worked sometimes. What worked better was listening to a mildly boring podcast.

My go to now is setting my iPad to reverse contrast (mostly black) and reading until I fall asleep. A shot of Zquil helps too.

I wish I was like my wife who has the talent of closing her eyes and sleeping. My mind is just too active.

You might try this.

Delta Sleep System

No vocals though.

I have always had to have some kind of music on when I went to bed, ever since I was a child. About fifteen years ago I went through a stage of insomnia where I just could not get to sleep and when I finally did I'd wake up every hour or so and never get any good rest. I tried just about everything to remedy the situation and nothing worked. One night, when I couldn't sleep, I was wandering through a Borders Bookstore and came across one of these CDs and thought, "What the hell." I figured if it didn't work I was only out $10.

Every night since that night I've played these (I rotate through three different ones) and I've yet to hear the end of them. They work for me.

Listening to those bands you've listed (and reading your criteria) brings to mind Dashboard Confessional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLzuOMpkFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j82FBbgpUy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcgwuZZsTc

How about these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1awIcBrhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-xGerv5FOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClBwr64lLrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__3KRudhEo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO8qCRVj8dI


I've added this one because I just think its cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StFsv6P9OE

Certainly not every track by these, but off the top of my head, try these artists:

Death Cab for Cutie
The Shins
Broken Bells
Portugal the Man
Iron & Wine
Florence and the Machine
Mumford and Sons
some The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order
Haelos (like the track Dust)

Also, plug any of the songs you like of this sort into Pandora as a new "Station" and mine it for similar suggestions. It's very good at this...

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Originally posted by cslinger:
I feel for you as I am not the best sleeper. Have you tried white noise or nature sounds maybe crickets?

Not tried the crickets but white noise must sound like water to me in my sleep as I seem to have to get up and pee a couple times the times I tried it.

I guess I won't recommend the sound that I like to fall asleep to: the sound of waves crashing on the beach. It's got that rythmic but a bit random timing.

 
A fan.
 

Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream Album. Turn off shuffle and start at Disarm. I never make it past mayonnaise .

I like the local oldies rock station (60s era). Hits most of your criteria and is actual music, instead of angry yelling. YMMV.

I prefer the sound track from Amadeus, second on the list is a news station out of Las Angeles - knx1070 am.

I put together some albums/songs targeted towards sleep awhile back through amazon that included all three LOTR soundtracks, and the Gladiator soundtrack. I think I also included Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, which to me is a really good album, but somehow very favorable to sleep.

I also used to find putting on a very familiar movie helped me fall asleep. I'd not even try to watch it.

Black, Gustopher is on the right track. Look into Binaural beats. Binaural beats for sleep are super low (3-4 hz). Human hearing can only go as low as 20 hz if your hearing is good. To solve this problem, two pitches (within human hearing range) are placed in each ear at 3-4 hz apart. This tricks the brain into hearing a 3-4 hz binaural beat even though the pitches are higher than 20 hz . It kind of sounds like a slow wobbling effect. You must use headphones. You can find just the wave form or the wave form can be embedded into music. Based on your op, I would think the binaural beats embedded in music would be best. Check YouTube for them. Google other info regarding binaural beats.

There are different levels of binaural beats for things such as pain control, concentration, etc.

My go-to is the Windham Hill Sampler '84. The Windham Hill label unfortunately got caught up with "New Age" music, but it actually featured(s) incredibly talented musicians like Michael Hedges, who unfortunately died young in a car wreck, and George Winston. There are a number of "samplers" for various years, from which you can draw other musicians/tracks.

I also find Cocteau Twins very ruminative, but all of these may be a product of time and place for me, i.e., relaxing because it brings me back to a very good time in my life.

Sample '84: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...wr3uZhshghc2-16T66_).

Michael Hedges, Aerial Boundaries: https://www.bing.com/videos/se...D0958DB9E4&FORM=VIRE

George Winston, December: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2OXjl_xqQ8&list=PLH8F749pX4cXSmwr3uZhshghc2-16T66_).

Eric Serra s The big blue OST is great, some other of his soundtracks as well. There's spexifically another sea related but Messenger could also do the trick.
Big blue definitely a winner

G Winston for the win and try early Pat Methemy Group albums


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George Winston

His album entitled Autumn is a favorite of mine. No vocals, though, which the OP likes.