Audible Sleep Audiobooks

Sleep Sound with Richard Armitage: audio designed to be drifted off to, never finished

1 audiobook reviewed

About Audible Sleep

Audible Sleep is not an author in the conventional sense: it is the banner under which sleep-focused audio productions appear, a name that stands for a format rather than a person. The premise of the category is simple – audio designed to be drifted off to, not followed to the end – and the productions gathered under this name are built for exactly that job.

Judging work like this calls for different criteria from a novel or a history. The questions are practical ones: is the voice right, is the pacing genuinely unhurried, does it actually help you switch off? On those terms, sleep audio has become one of the quiet success stories of the audiobook world.

Audible Sleep in audiobooks

Our catalogue entry here is Sleep Sound with Richard Armitage, and the title gives you the proposition: a production built around Richard Armitage’s voice, with sleep as its whole purpose. Choosing sleep audio largely comes down to choosing a voice you find restful, which makes the named narrator the main event rather than a detail.

The honest measure of success is admittedly an odd one: this is the one kind of listening you are supposed not to finish. If you never hear the second half, it is working.