is still looking for angels in the architecture. Maybe especially now; he’s 81 and, like many of his contemporaries, thinking about end-of-life issues both spiritual and corporeal. The observations in his quietly stunning new album, ”Seven Psalms,” reflect a sort of consummate maturity: There aren’t many more stages of ripeness you can move on to, in this life, beyond the one where a hard out looms.
The record begins and ends with bells. One guess for whom they’re rockin’ and tollin’? Death is a constant theme here, although any statement he has to make about it is posed as a series of questions in these sometimes elliptical, sometimes plain-spoken lyrics. Religion, as either myth or reality, is especially on his mind.
“Seven Psalms” is just as striking in its musical assemblage, although no one will accuse this complicated listen of bearing excessive earworms. The vast majority of the instrumentation consists of Simon himself plucking acoustic guitar or other stringed instruments, with intermittent bursts of exotic percussion or glockenspiel or bass harmonica that keep things a little bit tense as well as beautiful.
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