Norah Jones' Come Away with Me

Some music appears on the cultural scene and they feel like they were dropped from the sky. Norah Jones' first album is one of those musical experiences. According to <i>Come Away With Me</i>'s Wikipedia, it is one of the bestselling albums of all time, <i>the</i> bestselling debut album by a female artist, and the third bestselling album of the twenty-first century.

The songs are comforting, like modern lullabies. They are uplifting. They are hopeful.

It's customary in any mention about how music affects one's mood for the better to say something about how one ought to listen to music because it rewires one's brain for the better. But we already knew that. No one needs a scientific study to know they feel better when they listen to Norah.