British musician Max Richter has composed an eight hour classical album with the full intention of helping you to nod off.

Sleep, which is available as as a digital album, has been composed using strings, gentle piano and soft vocal sounds, all designed to calm and soothe the mind.

“It’s my personal lullaby for a frenetic world,” the composer says of his newest masterpiece. “Sleeping is one of the most important things we all do.”

Describing the album as a ‘manifesto for a slower pace of existence’, Richter hopes his composition will act as an eight-hour lullaby to see struggling sleepers through a whole night of peaceful rest.

Talking to deutschegrammophon.com, Richter explains that the hectic nature of modern society inspired him to explore the archives of durational classic music, with the hope of finding something to help promote relaxation.

“This isn’t something new in music, it goes back to Cage, Terry Riley, and LaMonte Young, and it’s coming around again partly as a reaction to our speeded-up lives – we are all in need of a pause button.”

“It’s my personal lullaby for a frenetic world”: this new classical album could cure your insomnia