The Album Club: "Da Pacem" by Arvo Pärt
It's pretty, of course, but I can't help but feel pretty bored here. Some of the songs interest me more than most of them do, but it honestly feels like the same choral dynamic repeated across a whole album with very little variation. Religious music like this was never really intended to be actively involving anyway as such. I guess it's supposed to inspire feelings of connection with God or something. It's very pretty, it really is, but it also bores me. Too much of the same thing and I didn't find most of the psalms to be all that memorable.
The most melodically active and therefore most interesting psalm was Psalm 117. Of course just my personal reaction.
5/10 - fine, I guess, but I won't return to it.
EDIT: It's also a cultural thing, probably. If you grew up with this, you're going to have more of a connection with these psalms than I do. I prefer Danish psalms, since I grew up with them and feel that they are part of my cultural background in some way that matters, even though I'm an atheist.
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