The Ingrid – Lullaby
There is a particular kind of cruelty embedded in tenderness — the sort that Harriet Wheeler once traced in The Sundays' crystalline sadness, that Elbow find in the small devastations of ordinary life, that Mazzy Star perfected by making beauty itself feel like a wound. The Ingrid, a trio assembled at university in Chichester of all places, seem to understand this instinctively. Their third single, "Lullaby," is a song that comforts you the way a stranger at a funeral might: warmly, sincerely, and from a distance that never quite closes.