Paul Simon to Release ‘Seven Psalms,’ First Album of Newly Written Material in Seven Years
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Paul Simon has announced a new album, “Seven Psalms,” a suite-like conceptual album that he says is meant to be listened to as one 33-minute piece of work, containing seven distinct but interlinked songs, or “movements.” The May 19 release will mark the first all-new collection he’s put out since 2016’s “Stranger to Stranger” and the first studio album of any sort since “In the Blue Light” in 2018, an album of re-recordings of older songs.
The release is also due to have a companion documentary, “In Restless Dreams,” directed by Alex Gibney, according to a title card at the end of a trailer Simon has released for the upcoming album.
No official announcement of that film has yet been made. The album was recorded entirely on acoustic instruments, with choral contributions from the British vocal group VOCES8, and a guest vocal appearance by his wife, Edie Brickell.
Kyle Crusham co-produced with the artist. Although no studio was named in the announcement, Simon was reported by people working in adjacent studios to have been recording new material at New York’s Reservoir Studios last year.
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