Album Of The Day: Songs For Lent by New York Hymns

Album Art of New York Hymns's Songs For Lent album - With a beige border around it, a black-and-white photo of the East River of New York City, with what looks to be docks in the foreground on the left, and larger buildings behind those. A few bridges are spanning the river, and on the right side in the distance is the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan. The top half and a bit more is just clouds over the cityscape. In the clouds, it has the album title in red and the artist collective name in a smaller gray font just below.

About 13 years ago, I downloaded this album for free from the NoiseTrade site (RIP). Over the last decade or so, it has become my personal tradition to listen to this album on Good Friday every year. New York Hymns seems to be a collective of musicians from New York, mostly, but some in other parts of the United States. This album has a bunch of new and old melodies set with mostly older hymn or prayer texts, each song somewhat related to the traditional "Stations Of The Cross" progression following Jesus's torture and death that many churches remember today. The music is definitely structured as hymns, but the sound is mostly a simple, modern folk style, I think I would call it. It's a beautiful way to reflect on the day of Jesus's sacrifice. The album isn't on streaming, but it's easy to buy independently and provides a good hour of thought and reflection.

Release Year: 2011
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