Doing Hymns Well

I feel bad, just a little, that I don't like most modern Christian music, especially modern hymns. I really like hymns, and it is disappointing that so many modern takes on hymns sound dorky or dumb to me. So I get excited when I find some good hymns or spiritual songs, like the album "Come O Spirit" by Bifrost Arts. I found this a couple of weeks ago, and have been enjoying it a lot recently. While I realize not everyone likes this type of music, I think this album suggests some good principles for making spiritual songs today:

1. Beauty is often preferable to energy, intensity, accessibility, and excitement. A lot of worship music sounds cool and catchy to me, but not beautiful. That is a shame. 
2. All our church music doesn't need to be easily singable by everyone. Church music used to be complicated and intricate, made to be sung only by the choir. Today it seems every church song must have such simple rhythm and melodies that absolutely everyone can sing along. Could we settle on some kind of balance, or some of both types of music?
3. When updating an old hymn that has good lyrics, one doesn't need to add new lyrics to it. Sticking praise choruses into the middle of hymns has never made sense to me. Sure, you don't need to sing all the verses--but just make the song shorter.
4. Use the drum set sparingly, if at all. You also might also exchange your electric guitar for a banjo occasionally. Derek Webb's recent song "The Spirit vs. the Kick Drum" expresses the problem well. 
5. Voices are beautiful instruments, and its nice to hear them by themselves once in a while.
6. Christian should be making well produced music, but not everything should be polished until it sounds perfect. "Come O Spirit" has a refreshing variety of music and voices on it. Many of the tracks are very simple too, and that is OK

Right now you can also stream this album from the sidebar of my blog. Take a listen and tell me what you think.