For almost sixty years media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselvesfrom bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dres What You Want ad campaign in which Colin Kaepernicks headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush Mack Hagood draws evidence from noisecanceling headphones tinnitus maskers LPs that play ocean sounds naturesound mobile apps and inear smart technologies to argue the true purpose of media is not information transmission but rather the control of how we engage our environment. These devices which Hagood calls orphic media give users the freedom to remain unaffected in the changeable and distracting spaces of contemporary capitalism and reveal how racial gendered ableist and class ideologies shape our desire to block unwanted sounds.