Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs..?

So, we are told (commanded?) that authentic Christian worship includes our reciting and singing of Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs (or, songs from the Spirit. see Eph.5:19 & Col.3:16). At the risk of being anachronistic, it seems that we are pretty committed the third (spiritual songs), open to the second (hymns), but distinctly - dare I say strangely - reticent about the first (psalms). Apart from a handful of songs based on Psalms (e.g. The Lord’s my Shepherd (Townend); Give thanks to the LORD, our God and King etc.) and a few of the hymns we sing (e.g. Glorious things of thee are spoken), my sense is that Psalmody is generally notable by its absence. We periodically recite Psalms together in our evening service, but even that is a long way from the old BCP lectionary that would have us read through the entire book of Psalms every month! Reading some Psalms in the last couple of days in our Bible Read Through, I began to wonder why the reciting and singing of Psalms in our corporate worship has fallen into disuse? What might it sound like if we consciously re-integrated it into our worship? I guess there are the historic metric settings, but it turns out there is a bit of a renaissance of psalm singing going on these days. Here are a couple of options. The first is part of the Psalms-project and you can track down a lot of their work on Youtube. The second is more obviously congregational! There are also more settings of Psalms on the Church’s Spotify play-list: scroll down to the bottom of the MIE web-page, and click on the green circle with three arcs in it (the Spotify logo) - though you’ll need to set up an account to listen.