Top 5 Albums That Still Work at 1 a.m.

Records that get better as the house gets quieter.

1. 1

   Kind of Blue — Miles Davis

   Unhurried modal jazz. It never demands your attention; it earns it.

2. 2

   Blue — Joni Mitchell

   Voice, piano and dulcimer. Honest enough for the small hours.

3. 3

   In Rainbows — Radiohead

   Radiohead at their warmest. Nude and Reckoner were made for the dark.

4. 4

   Dummy — Portishead

   Slow beats, smoky vocals, city lights through a rainy window.

5. 5

   Blonde — Frank Ocean

   Drifting, hushed and intimate, like a late-night drive with nowhere to be.