I’m the sort of writer that has to listen to the same album again and again on repeat as long as I’m writing something. I feel like it’s a Pavlovian trick, once I’ve built the world out in my mind and associate it with the music - every time I replay it, it reinforces the mental environment I’m supposed to be writing in. With that in mind, here’s some of the music I’ve relied on in the past:
Wind River soundtrack - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
The Proposition soundtrack - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly soundtrack - Ennio Morricone
Bach’s Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma
And some others that have not been as consistently replayed as I worked, yet I definitely got a lot of use out of them: Imarhan, Stone Roses, Tobias Hume.