"Lullaby" from from Crayon Physics Deluxe on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS7, & macOS (2009)
Composer: _ghost
Album: Crayon Physics Deluxe
Label: Humble Bundle
Publisher: Kloonigames
Developer: Kloonigames
"Lullaby" is the perfect song for a game like Crayon Physics Deluxe, where you can go from puzzle to puzzle with this ethereal voice singing while you try to figure out how best to get the ball to the star using the fewest number of crayon strokes. The piano/chimes and guitar are a nice accompaniment that helps to break up what essentially is the same 14ish-second vocal part sung over the course of the whole song. There isn't much development in the song, even with the flittering flute and additional electronic instruments and sound effects, but it doesn't need to be anything more than it is. The song feels like it exists for the player to lose themselves in, bringing any aggravations from either receiving only one star at the end of a level or having to restart a level because the game wigged out when your single line became too long for the game to comprehend.
I've only been able to find out a little bit about the artist _ghost, primarily their SoundCloud page that I found from a Reddit thread. It looks like the song was written independently of the game, three years before it came out, and that it uses samples from skoria and brad sucks. They haven't uploaded any new music in seven years, although they're part of Ghost Kollective, who were last active five years ago.
That's all I've got for "Lullaby," a calming song used brilliantly in a game that is calming in and of itself, until it isn't.
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