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Rainy night sleep music
For nights when it's pouring outside: Purrple Cat's rainiest and coziest albums, soft piano and slow grooves for wet windows and a warm bed. Free under CC BY 4.0: dreamy chillwave and ambient downtempo by Purrple Cat, every track in full with a free MP3.
- When
- Any rainy night
- Good for
- Rainy and stormy nights, autumn and winter bedtimes, reading under a blanket.
- Timer
- 60 min, then a slow fade
- From
- 12 releases: Sleep Tight, Ice Palace, Eye of the Storm, City Nights 2, House in the Woods, Bloom, Cat Nap, Whispers in the Dark, A Good Book, Nostalgia and Moving On, Brain Fog, Up All Night
Tips for this set
- It pairs well with real rain on the window. It works without one too.
- On stormy nights, a little steady music can soften sudden gusts and thunder.
- This set leans on the coziest albums, so it suits autumn and winter bedtimes even when it's dry.
Why these tracks
Every Purrple Cat track was measured for tempo, loudness, brightness and steadiness. The rainy night set scores all 343 of them against its own rules, takes no more than 5 from any one release, leaves out the spooky albums and orders the picks so the set drifts gradually softer: 1 h 01 min of music before it loops.
- +0:00Another DimensionA Good Book · 20191:59MP3
- +1:59Eye of the StormEye of the Storm · 20242:21MP3
- +4:20UndertowEye of the Storm · 20243:24MP3
- +7:44Cat Nip DazeCat Nap · 20192:28MP3
- +10:12Stale Cookies Still Taste Pretty GoodBrain Fog · 20193:07MP3
- +13:19AdriftEye of the Storm · 20242:44MP3
- +16:03Cave of SolaceEye of the Storm · 20243:00MP3
- +19:03It Was Just a DreamUp All Night · 20182:28MP3
- +21:31Ghost TownHouse in the Woods · 20213:09MP3
- +24:40Snow PillowIce Palace · 20242:36MP3
- +27:16WeightlessSleep Tight · 20253:15MP3
- +30:31EquinoxBloom · 20202:20MP3
- +32:50DiscoveryHouse in the Woods · 20212:24MP3
- +35:14LullabyBloom · 20202:36MP3
- +37:51Empty Food BowlCat Nap · 20192:41MP3
- +40:32Rainy StreetsCity Nights 2 · 20232:49MP3
- +43:21Whispers in the DarkWhispers in the Dark · 20192:54MP3
- +46:15Silent WoodHouse in the Woods · 20213:08MP3
- +49:23Through the TreesHouse in the Woods · 20213:12MP3
- +52:35Ebb and FlowEye of the Storm · 20242:23MP3
- +54:58Pitter PatterHouse in the Woods · 20213:00MP3
- +57:582:46MP3
Free to use, with credit.
Putting this set under a sleep video or a relaxation stream? It's all free under CC BY 4.0.
Free to use
- All social media. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Facebook, X and the rest, including monetised videos, 8-hour sleep videos, sleep streams, Shorts and Reels.
- Other projects too. Podcasts, meditation and relaxation content, games, apps, ads, client work and school projects.
- Edit it to fit. Cut, loop, slow down or fade tracks, and say it's edited in the credit.
- Credit Purrple Cat. “Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0”.
Never
- Never re-upload or release it on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer or Tidal, through a distributor or any other route.
- Never release remixes, samples or covers of it on streaming services either.
- Never register it in Content ID or claim other people's videos with it.
- Never pass it off as your own or sell the tracks as they are.
Why so strict about streaming? Re-uploads, remixes, samples and covers on Spotify, Apple Music and other services get fingerprinted, and then false Content ID claims hit everyone who uses the music properly. Purrple Cat Self Releases have no Content ID, so there's nothing to clear when you use them as intended.
Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0