Album Of The Day: Even When My Heart Is Breaking by Matthew Smith

Album Art of Matthew Smith's Even When My Heart Is Breaking EP - On a background that looks like rough, brown paper, in a dark brown a rough heart shape is on the left in the middle. To the right of it, in the same dark brown color is the artist's name in large, lowercase letters. Then below that in a handwritten pen style is the EP title.

Matthew Smith has spent decades taking old hymn texts and either giving them new melodies, or just recording them in a more contemporary style. He has worked with the Indelible Grace artist collective a lot too. One of his earliest solo artist releases is this EP, a collection of five hymns. These renditions are beautiful and can bring new life to these hymns because it's very different than the church choir backed by an organ or piano. Somehow, I have both the 2004 CD and the 2011 CD re-release; I made that mistake because the 2011 re-release has much different artwork, I think. But on the other hand, i guess it's not a mistake to support independent artists, so let's just say I'm a collector, then.

Release Year: 2004
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Album Art of Matthew Smith's Even When My Heart Is Breaking EP 2011 edition - Towards the top in the center, the artist's name is printed in grey, with a hand-drawn double line below it, and then the hand-written EP title in white pen. The rest of the artwork is an illustration of a man in shorts and a T-shirt huddled in a rowboat, being tossed and turned in the large waves all around him.

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