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There’s a particular niche of sophisticated, loungy music that thrived from the late ’90s into the mid-2000s.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

“Call Me If You Get Lost” dominated the set list, but Tyler made plenty of time for highlights from his six-album discography, bounding between orchestral boom bap, sun-kissed soul trains and loungy tropicalia.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

Mr. Paseltiner said he’d never heard of Lindisfarne and that an early iteration of the Darlingside composition was a loungy pop tune.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2018

On less boisterous evenings, expect loungy music from Billie Holiday and other crooners.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2016

Originally released in 1979, “Tian Mi Mi” was one of Teng’s greatest hits, a loungy ballad about someone with a sweet and disarmingly familiar smile.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2015