Vinyl Record

Paul Simon - Seven Psalms

Paul Simon - Seven Psalms on LP vinyl. A 2023 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 2023

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2023 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Seven Psalms is Paul Simon's 2023 late-night meditation on God, aging, attention and the strange persistence of song. It is not structured like a conventional comeback album. Simon presents it as a continuous 33-minute acoustic composition in seven connected movements, with recurring guitar figures, quiet percussion, vocal murmurs and brief appearances by Voces8 and Edie Brickell. The origin story matters because the work began with a dream in 2019, and the album keeps that pre-dawn quality: thoughts arriving before argument, images half-lit, jokes and dread sharing the same small room. The Lord, Love Is Like A Braid, My Professional Opinion, Your Forgiveness and Wait do not behave like singles; they are stations in a single devotional and philosophical walk. Released when Simon was in his eighties, Seven Psalms is austere, intimate and oddly playful, less concerned with summing up a career than with listening for what still interrupts silence.

Seven Psalms matters because it is one of Simon's boldest late-career formal choices. After decades of albums built from sharply etched songs, he made a continuous acoustic piece about mortality and divinity, proving that his curiosity about structure had not ended with age.

For collectors, Seven Psalms stands apart from the standard Paul Simon shelf. It is not a hits-adjacent purchase but a late statement best heard in one sitting, where the vinyl format suits the intended continuity and the quiet scale of the performance.

Sparse acoustic song-cycle with fingerpicked guitar, low percussion, choral colour, intimate older vocals, devotional questioning and a continuous nocturnal flow.

Recommended for: Paul Simon listeners interested in his late-career experiments; Collectors of songwriter albums meant to be heard as one continuous piece; Fans of quiet acoustic records about faith, age and mortality.

When was Seven Psalms released? Seven Psalms was released on May 19, 2023. Is Seven Psalms divided into normal songs? It is presented as a continuous 33-minute composition with seven connected movements rather than a standard sequence of standalone singles. Who appears on Seven Psalms? The album includes contributions from the vocal ensemble Voces8 and from Edie Brickell.