For all those who love to paint, sketch, sculpt, or put their senses to any form of figurative canvas and create magical pieces of art, how often do you feel the need to turn to music for inspiration? Or do you prefer listening to music while doing your artsy thing? On today's Pandemic Playlist, we have chosen five songs that will inspire your creativity or just simply help you relax while you make your art.

'Thinking Of A Place' comes as one of the harder tracks on today's playlist, albeit the song is still a slow jam by nature. Like most of The War On Drugs songs, think Bob Dylan, heartland rock, blues, and synth all splashed together and you will come close to imagining what 'Thinking Of A Place' sounds like. The dreamy track will send you floating, drifting, and fading in a richly recorded slow rock number that goes down as the only song with vocals on our list. Without being too influential on your own unique artistic creation, 'Thinking Of A Place' could easily enter onto a road trip playlist, could inspire your beach vacation fantasies, or appeal as a track suitable for a long late drive through some quiet urban nightlife. But like the title, 'Thinking Of A Place' suggests whatever location you find beautiful.

The most gentle, most unfluctuating, or in a closer description, the most ambient track on our list, 'Weightless', with its fitting title, makes you feel exactly that. A wavey synth continuously contracts and dilates over a barely audible thump at a heart-beat tempo as the beat until, close to two minutes in on the 8-minute track, a sort of wind-chime tune plays on a mallet instrument. Gradual layers of instruments are woven in with changes that are so subtle, you may not even notice unless you pay attention. 'Weightless' comes as a perfect song to play in the background while you work on your art.

How can we make a playlist about relaxation and all things pleasing for your artwork inspiration without including some silky smooth jazz, right? Well, Pat Martino's 'Dreamsville' may just be the silkiest, smoothest of jazz numbers you've heard. With warm, intimate guitar rhythms that yield to no rules other than to comfort and relax you while you craft, 'Dreamsville' is full of beautiful guitar work that is an art to pull off itself. An ever-so-soft organ plays as the backup to the guitar and we understand that this minimalistic jazz piece uses few instruments as its heroes, but they do shine as heroes nonetheless. The song is sure to relax even those who don't like jazz, but lovers of the genre will probably want to snatch this up.

Listen to 'Dreamsville' here.

In case you haven't noticed, we have gone for a bit of variety on today's playlist. Alan Stivell's sprightly Celtic number 'Suite Des Montagnes' creates abstract mental imagery in its own right. For hardcore heavy metal fans, you may dip your fingers into ethnic-charged rock tunes every so often, but this track lets you enjoy a style of music that metal frequently gets inspiration from. 'Suite Des Montagnes' draws from some of the most primitive Celtic roots with a Celtic harp and low whistle as its musical weapons playing out in peppy, free-spirited melodies, and will certainly beckon the imaginations of an aspiring artist.

Listen to 'Suite Des Montagnes' here.

Another ambient tune, albeit more melodic than the previously listed Marconi Union song, 'Younger', comes as one of many truly rich and utterly beautiful Tony Anderson tracks (probably all suitable for this playlist). 'Younger' presents a bittersweet tune that tenderly slides between melancholy and hope. It may be hard to pin whether it is more one than the other of those two feelings, but that may be what Anderson had in mind when crafting this musical piece of art. The piano accentuates at just the right moments as the lead instrument with background trills and triplets while rich sweeping atmospheric instruments expand in this near-celestially-touched song. A dreamy piece of music that would be highly enjoyable to listen to while working on your art.

Pandemic Playlist is a daily list of songs that will keep you entertained instead of feeling drained while you're isolated at home. Look out for a fresh selection of great tunes from MEAWW to refresh your mood every day!

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Pandemic Playlist: From War on Drugs to Alan Stivell, the top 5 songs that will inspire creativity - MEAWW