Instrumental Hits Radio

Instrumental Hits Radio takes contemporary pop hits and reimagines them without vocals - rendered as instrumental arrangements that let you hear structure beneath melody. The station streams at 128 kilobits, decent quality for the format. Programming consists entirely of recognizable songs stripped to instrumentation. Some arrangements are straight covers; others rearrange and recontextualize familiar material. This works better than you'd expect. Without lyrics demanding attention, you hear production details most pop music buries. The appeal differs from typical pop radio - you can concentra…