Strings echo the guitars, as more wonderfully ambiguous guitar sounds enter the picture ... And when taken as a whole, Rain on Lens is certainly a good album. While the music is at times distant ...

It's no secret that rain sounds offer troubled sleepers comfort. "Rain is predictable, calming, stable, and non-threatening," says Dr. Shelby Harris, a behavioral sleep-medicine specialist.

The functional genre includes nature sounds, white noise, sound effects and silence recordings. “It can’t be that an Ed Sheeran stream is worth exactly the same as a stream of rain falling on ...