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Lullabies

Hummed low, never sung loud

A lullaby for a baby is judged by one thing: does it hold for three minutes without an event that wakes anyone. No key change for excitement, no big finish — no finish at all, really. It thins, and then it is quiet.

Lullabies for babies to go to sleep

For the youngest listeners the words barely matter — the parent is the medium, and the music only has to be a calm, warm, unchanging place for a voice to sit in. Ours are written and recorded for exactly that: a hummed verse rather than a performed one, the same phrases returning, everything at the pace of a slow breath out.

Under two, we would say: keep the screen out of the cot and let the lullaby be sound. The films exist for the stage after, when watching the sky settle becomes part of it. More on ages, on the parents’ page.

Ends on a held sleeping frame

Every lullaby ends the same way, because sameness is the comfort: the picture holds, the goodnights are said name by name, and the last thing to go quiet is the light. Goodnight The Cat Nap. Goodnight, Tardy.

Tonight’s lullabies

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