Album Of The Day: Psalms by Sandra McCracken

Album Art of Sandra McCracken's Psalms album - A close-up photo of a middle-aged woman from the shoulders up, with her hands clasped together to the left of her chin. Her blone-brown hair goes down past her shoulders. She is leaning in and staring straight into the camera with a fairly blank expression. The shoulders are out of focus. The background is a dark gray, nearly black. In the top left, printed in a serif font is the artist name on two lines in a milky white, with the album name just below it in a pastel pink.

Released 10 years ago this past week (April 14), this album finds this talented singer-songwriter setting the Psalms to new melodies. The Psalms are ancient Hebrew songs and prayers and Sanda McCracken sets some of them to new folk/pop melodies. On previous albums, McCracken wrote folk/rock songs from personal experience, but with Psalms and her more recent releases, she has moved to scripture-based songs of encouragement and praise to God. Recorded live in a living room in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, this album has a simple beauty to it and you might feel like the musicians could almost be playing in your living room right now if you close your eyes. It's an intimate, beautiful album with lyrics based on ancient texts and it's well worth a listen.

Release Year: 2015
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