You forget, I'm a filthy apostate. Apparently.

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.

Once again MicShazam ruins the vote! :laughing:

Everyone else here seems to be more into stoned church music than I expected. I feel bad pissing all over something so old and culturally important, but if I'm not feeling engaged by it, that's how it is. Sorry to commit blasphemy on every nearly unanimously liked album. I swear I'm not being a contrarian on purpose.

You're good. Just keep doing you.

Yeah. The last thing we want is
https://www.memecreator.org/static/i...es/4561726.jpg

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I prefer Son of Psalm personally.

Psalm people have can't resist a pun.

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