Noooooo. No no nothing with words. At all. They compete, you see. These days increasingly no music on at all when reading, or quiet orchestral, no announcers.

Words don't bother me too much - they're just rhythm and melody. That's why hip hop is so fun - mostly rhythm. Foreign language hip hop is particularly good for that as the words are incomprehensible - to me at least - so they're exclusively rhythm. 

I can't do both at once, brain gets confused.

I tried that lowfi girl thing once and it didn't work.

What's that moody blues album with loads of talking and an orchestral version of Knights in White Satin?

I can't listen to any music whilst reading for pleasure.  

They are two completely separate creative  indulgences and both diminish the other. 

I do listen to music when reading technical prose. When I used to have to do PD of Panel checklists for example,  Music for the Jilted Generation helped get the job done quicker and less painfully.

Don’t listen to it while reading. I do while writing though. Nowt with words mind. 

Days of future passed

Prog, there’s your answer. A multitude of sins

Incidentally, it will be 30 years ago this summer that the Prodigy released that album. Which was 30 years after Bob Dylan released both Times are A Changing and Another Side of Bob Dylan and the Beatles released Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale.

Other albums  released in 1994 were Nirvana unplugged on MTV, Parklife, Mellow Gold, Protection, Downward Spiral, Definitely Maybe, Weezer, Dummy, Regulate... the G Funk Era , Dookie, Live Through This, Return of the Space Cowboy, Korn, Second Coming, His n Hers, Dog Man Star, Lifeforms, 

Where are all the young pretenders to those thrones this year???

They are two completely separate creative  indulgences and both diminish the other. 

With two young children and a full time job, unfortunately I must combine these things. Reading while listening to music. Playing computer games with one eye on a film. Watching Everton while drinking heavily and weeping. That kind of thing. 

Sympathetic heh

The Bristol trip hop stuff that was the soundtrack to my A Level revision is still often my go to for this. Tricky, massive attack, portishead.

Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I/II

Gulda Plays Bach

Any work album by Brain.FM

Low-fi playlists

God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl

Bright Magic - Public Service Broadcasting

Every Day - Cinematic Orchestra

All great reading albums

I can't read or work and listen to music at the same time.  I end up either listening to the music and doing nothing else, or filtering out the music entirely and reading/working. 

Don't do this myself unless I'm reading a music biog. Currently reading Jah Wobble's re-released autobiography, and sometimes put Metal Box on in the background. 

Yoeman of the Guard - Gilbert & Sullivan 

You need to have a word with yourself.

Heh did,  was into tricky, massive attach and portiahead at university. Dummy is the best of the albums amit listed above imo.

I can’t read with music at the same time. And I can’t draft with music on either unless it’s something trivial or internal

KLF - Chill Out. 

Honestly.

A lot of those 1994 tunes take me back to the end of school and the start of my gap yaah.

Can't do it.  Attention span of a goldfish as it is.

I cant have any sound while reading either but looking at your playlist I am wondering if you might enjoy anything by The Carpenters or Simon & Garfunkel.

Bach Mass B Minor on low.

Or Swordfishtrombones

Max Richter & Tilder Swinton: The Blue Notebooks is winning this for me today.

Vladimir's Blues does it for me on that, Quips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZuc3_kSRk4

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People

I'm on "On the Nature of Daylight".  Provided you can skip past the Swinton word tracks, its a great album.