Paul Simon returns to music with ‘seven-movement composition’ titled ‘Seven Psalms’

Paul Simon is marking a return to music with the new opus “Seven Psalms,” described as a “33-minute, seven-movement all-acoustic composition.” The project, due out May 19, was reportedly made with the intention to be listened to in its entirety. The heavily-lauded singer-songwriter behind “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Kodachrome” and “You Can Call Me Al,” announced the opus on Wednesday alongside a promotional trailer describing its inspiration as a dream he had a few years ago. “The dream was so strong that I got up and I wrote it down, but I had no idea what that meant,” Simon, 81, says in ...