‘Tis said “music has charms to soothe the savage breast”. And haven’t we felt that to be so over and over again? Not just lullabies or the most lyrical of etudes, either. Soulful blues, hard-driving rock, EDM, sailing, wailing folk, rollicking Zydeco–these, too, and more, soothe the savage breast. Because sometimes frayed or enraged nerves easily fall into alignment with gentle melodies and smooth rhythms.

Some of you are too young to remember an old sitcom called M*A*S*H. Aired from 1972 to 21983, it chronicled day to day life in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War.