HOZIER'S NEW ALBUM moved me to TEARS! | Unreal Unearth Reaction 

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son of nyx is actually a piece of alex, his bassist which he wrote in memory of his dead father (nick) that’s why it’s called son of nyx. it also functions as a track to transfer us to the darker side of the album, quite literally crossing the river styx. it’s an amazing piece

The line about a butchered tongue still being spoken above the ground...my goodness

I´ve heard this album described as "everyone gets emotionally destroyed by three of the songs, but never the same three" and honestly true

For me, Butchered Tongue just hits me so much deeper after hearing him speak Gaelic throughout which is something he hasn't done in past albums and it's just so so beautiful and haunting

Francesca has so much meaning and is actually one of my favorites on the album! it's inspired by a couple in 14-century italy, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta. Francesca was married off in a political marriage to a man much older than her, Giovanni. instead, she falls in love with Paolo, who is Giovanni's younger brother. they have an affair, but when Giovanni finds out, he murders both of them. in Dante's "Inferno," Francesca and Paolo are in the 2nd circle of Hell, Lust, where their punishment is to be tossed around in a hurricane for eternity, and Hozier mentions it representing them being "swept off their feet" and their love for each other being so strong. Dante says that their two "shades," or souls, were so closely intertwined that they could be seen as one. that's basically what the song is about/inspired by and literally almost makes me cry every time, especially the lyric "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" in the outro.

I struggle listening to Butchered Tongue without crying, as an indigenous person constantly seeing roadsigns with names given by our ancestors getting spray painted over or just vandalized in general the song means so much to me. The place names here were given to describe the land, describing lakes and mountains and it was all named with a purpose. There are so few people that know what those names mean, where they come from because "it just means home to them". My familys/ancestors language has already gone extinct like so many other indigenous languages and god the song is so incredibly important and absolutely hearbreaking.

I was NOT prepared for this album. Abstract (Psychopomp) in particular got me good. The imagery of holding roadkill in the street having hit it, the tears running down your face shining in the light. God. This man could do no wrong.

Eat your young is actually a reference to a essay from 1729 (A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift) that says that a solution to poverty in Ireland would be that poor people sold their children for the rich to eat.

Your raw reaction to Hozier's music is really interesting and emotional. Your response to Butchered Tongue is right on the money. As an Irish person and speaker of Irish, I found this song so heartbreaking. Not all of this songs are personal though, may of his references are literary, like Francesca which is based on a love story in Dante's Inferno. Eat Your Young takes inspiration from Swift's A Modest Proposal, and satirically suggests that the war-mongers and capitalist skip the destruction of their children's future and just eat them instead. I love this album beyond all reason.

You should definitely listen to his other albums! His self titled is his first album, and has more themes of death as well as religion. His second album, Wasteland, Baby! is my favorite album from him, and deals more with the end of the world inspired from the works of T.S. Elliot.

This album is about a break up but Hozier walks us through it through storytelling his feelings into the narrative of dante's inferno. I really recommend looking up his interviews about Francesca and Unknown. The shortened background is that Francesca is about how Francesca's lover says he'd relive their whole love story all again to end up in the first circle ofhell with her where they are stuck in hurricanes because at least in every life and version of hell he could try and make his way back to her. Unknown is about how betrayal is what puts you in the deepest pits of dante's inferno and he portrays betrayal as that hell - that is this is from the perspective of someone betrayed by who they love most but they still say that the betrayal and pain is worth it because at least they got to look upon the real version of the person they loed for the first time. I recommend listening to Wasteland, Baby! next - I think you'd love it and the concept of it being how love can be a destructive force and exist admist destruction. Also take me to church was written to raise awareness for how gay men were being tortured to death on live streams in Russia, the song follows the relationship between religious trauma and queer love- the music video and the bridge really helps illuminate this.

Also you mentioned how dark eat your young is and that’s actually one of my favourite parts of his music. I love how he doesn’t shy away from being quite visceral in some songs. He has an entire song about two lovers rotting together in a field (in a week) and it’s so beautiful. It just kinda makes his music feel more real if that makes sense. Not shying away from topics like actuality of death and serious political issues is so appealing. You don’t see that a lot in popular music I think. In general his songs just feel like he’s being very legitimate in his music. I rarely find songs that discuss love in a way I feel comes close to the actual feeling but he manages to do so over and over again. I just love him so much

To add another layer to Abstract/Psychopomp: A Psychopomp is an entity whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. In the song Hozier essentially casts his love into the role of a Psychopomp, reliving the memory of them running into traffic to pick up a wounded animal. Their selfless compassion, their almost reckless deed to ease the suffering of an innocent being, makes him realise he has no choice but to love the person he is singing about. When he thinks back on his relationship with the person, this is the moment that still comes back to haunt him every time.

Hozier’s albums make me simultaneously want to sink into and be swallowed up by the soundscapes, while also wanting to soar out of my body and float away. It’s such a unique feeling. Thank you for this wonderful video.

oh my god abstract is absolutely one of the greatest things he's ever done imo. idk why but it moves me so much he killed it with this album. Comparing his memory of watching an animal get ran over in the road, and like, the rawness of love someone has for their pet, letting go of this relationship, unbelievable.

It’s not even that he’s underrated, it’s that he’s THE artist of this generation: as a musician, as a lyricist, as poet, as a producer, as a storyteller, as a SINGER. This album is genuinely a masterpiece and the fact that it’s inspired on Dante’s inferno makes it even much more of a achievement. I feel unbelievably lucky to witness his work and to be able to be inspired by it.

I was already getting emotional with the album but butchered tongue DESTROYED me... i don't think I can listen to that song without crying. He mentions how grateful and blessed he is of being able to still talk his native tongue however butchered it is, and he recognizes that not all have such luck, and that really hit me hard. I come from a place where our natives where completely destroyed by colonization, and all we have are words, there's an indescribable pain that comes with feeling a deep connection with your roots but never being able to connect fully because you know the language is simply extinct... that shit just broke me dude.

Butchered tongue hit me in my core as a first generation immigrant to the US. I was born in Burma to a minority called the Chin people (Tedim, to be specific) and Burma has been in a coup since 2021 (and many other coups before that). Trying to retain my native tongue, resist assimilation, and fight as much as I can from afar…this song touched my soul

love going through the emotional journey ofthis album with someone else it's SO gorgeous

Top five for me: 1. Unknown / Nth 2. First Light 3. All Things End 4. Damage Gets Done 5. To Someone from a Warm Climate

Butchered Tongue consistently murders me every time I listen to it, it's almost too beautiful. I care so much about language, and history, and stories and people, and I've never had a song so elegantly put to words exactly how I feel about it before. How we're intrinsically connected to our pasts, and the words that people used back then. The histories that other people burned, that we'll never get back. The way that not just in Ireland, but native people in so many places in the world have been butchered along with their even their languages. Beautiful. Truly gorgeous. This album is a new favorite for me. Top 5 is "Butchered Tongue", "Abstract (Psychopomp)", "I, Carrion (Icarian)", "Unknown / Nth", and "First Light". I'm also gonna include "To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe)" because I can't limit my favorites to just five.

Concept albums are my favorite and UU is probably my new all time favorite. We are literally traveling through the nine circles of Hell (Dante's Inferno) with De Selby pt.1 and 2 being the descent into it and First Light the ascent at the end of the journey. With the beautiful lyrics this is a 10/10 for me. Anyway my five favorites : 1. De Selby pt.1 2. First Light 3. De Selby pt.2 4. Francesca 5. Abstract

It’s so beautiful to listen to someone who actually fully appreciates his absolute mastery of both lyricism and music production. He puts so much attention to his words and music and layering of themes, that the more you learn about him/the songs, the more you get out of them. Please listen to all of his albums now, he really is a modern day poet of a musician and deserves all our utmost respect and id love to hear your take on all of them.

This video autoplayed after an interview with Hozier and I let it play solely for the joy of watching someone with next to no knowledge of his body of work completely fall in love with his voice and lyricism in real time. It was absolutely beautiful to see. Welcome to the fold. 🖤

butchered tongue just hits so hard for me as not only a black woman but one with a Jamaican father and African American mother. My ancestors went through hell and all they had was each other so they built up new culture and shared it amongst one another and even when they were cut down for it they still shared it from beyond the grave.

My Top 5 would have to be 1. I, Carrion 2. Unknown 3. Francesca 4. Abstract 5. Who We Are

Please!! You need to react to his other albums cause he's a great singer and songwriter. And UU was heavily inspired by Dante's Inferno.

I just have to say this was such as absolutely astute, thorough, appreciative exploration of this album. I’m so grateful you gave it such respect. 🙏🏽

I was so in love with this album upon first listen, as soon as it came out, but hearing you react and the things you had to say about it, and the beautiful little aspects you highlighted that I hadn't even picked up on, made me fall in love with it all over again! Hozier is truly an incredible artist. His musicianship, his vocals, and his deep poetic ability, just insane. Every one of his albums I love and I was shocked how this one instantly took first place for me.

Wasteland baby! is maybe one of my favourite albums of all time....truly just melodically and lyrically spectacular.

Anything But is a really cheeky cutting metaphor. He’s upset with someone and would rather be anywhere but in their presence, with nothing left to give them. “If I was a riptide I wouldn’t take you out”, “if I was a stampede, you wouldn’t get a kick”. Our boy Andrew really gave up on them.

if you have the time for it, definitely listen to his other two albums! wasteland baby is similar to this one in that it has more variety with genre and musical experimentation. his first one is a bit more raw and intimate, and is always going to be my first love. and i promise, sitting down and really listening to take me to church will make it feel like a completely new song 😂 and if you want to just enjoy the beauty of his voice, look up his performance of “the humours of whiskey” and cover for “cosmic love”. both videos are really short but pack a punch to the ears

The imagery in Abstract (Psychopomp) gets me every time, its so beautiful. Like the use of 'psychopomp', a being that guides souls to the underworld, to describe his partner in this memory where they rushed to comfort this animal as i died, without a second thought so that it wouldnt die scared and alone, like their natural instinct is to just run to its aid without even thinking of their own safety running into a road full of cars; And how that was the moment he knew he had no choice but to love them seeing how absolutely pure and selfless they are and how thats just like a perfect window into who they are as a person and not an act . AAAAAAghhhh

Picking favorites of Hoziers work is impossible. Every song is crafted with so much care and weight that it feels insulting to leave any by the wayside. Hozier is truly an artist in the most pure and complete way. I've never seen an artist like him before.

i think "you called me angel for the first time my heart leapt from me / you smile now, i can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth / and whats left of it i listen to it tick / every tedious beat" has to be one of the most beautiful lyrics ive ever heard. right there along side the first verse of 'talk' about orpheus and eurydice

Let me just say-it’s always SO refreshing when someone really truly understands what an artist is trying to say with their lyrics. You’re doing great!!

Welcome to the magic of Hozier!! Absolutely loved your reaction! I usually listen to heavier music, but Hozier will forever be that artist that is just so damn special. The way he writes the music and the lyrics seems like he puts a bit of himself into every bit of it. He's the one who inspires me so damn much, his music just feeds my soul, it just heals me from within. Cannot explain it haha. I', very excited for you to check out his other albums!! This man legit doesn't have a single bad song.

Loved your reaction! 🥰 For me Butchered Tongue is number one for sure. Being from a country where our native language suffered a fate similar to that of Gaelic, this song really resonates. Thinking that it was somewhat shameful to speak my language and express my culture when I was a child and seeing a shift now, where people my age slowly understand that it, in fact, isn't... "A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground" line made me burst into tears. Overall top 5: 1. Butchered Tongue 2. De Selby Pt. 1 3. Son of Nyx 4. Francesca 5. I, Carrion But also it's really difficult to rank Eat Your Young and All Thing End, cause I've got so used to them by now, they kinda stand on their own. 😅

To note: You mention 70s vibes for First Time. Andrew has said how much of an influence Van Morrison is for him as a musician and you can ABSOLUTELY hear that in his music. He's covered Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing" and its stellar. You'll hear that in Anything But as well.

You express your thoughts about each song so well/quickly! I felt very similar about many of these songs but couldn't quite articulate those feelings, ty so much for this!

I haven't spent a lot of time with the back half of this album and experiencing it with you has me BROKEN. It's chills all over for 20 minutes. This album is so healing after the devastating last few years. We need MORE of this, more acceptance and rebirth.

Seeing someone experience Hozier's music for the first time is so precious.

Thank you for a full album reaction😊 Hozier is a brilliant lyricist, isn't he. If you dive deeper into his music, please know that some tracks he released are not on his albums, specifically NFWMB and A Moment's silence which were included in the ep before Wasteland! Baby ,his 2nd and my favorite album🥰

I had listened to I Carrion previously, but the way he sings it on the album absolutely shatters me.

First time on your channel and I wanted to comment and say that I really enjoyed your depth and thoughtfulness on each track. I really enjoyed this reaction! Thank you.

Loved your insights! This album was really all I hoped for and more. Absolutely recommend you listen to Through Me (The Flood) as well, it was on the Eat Your Young EP but not the actual album and it's an absolute favourite of mine. This album specifically is stacked with allusions to Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, and the 9 circles of hell. Eat Your Young references Swifts' 'A Modest Proposal', a satire piece about the mistreatment of the Irish by the English.

He’s an artist just like the legends in the eighteenth century cuz he always make sure the meaning of songs are actually related and details are on point he’s just perfect 😍 we love Hozier ❤

Please listen to the live performance of Nina cries power with mavis staple. It is an absolute absolute masterpiece and I think you’d enjoy seeing them play all together. Also i know it’s technically not on there but Through Me (The Flood) is sooo good and you should def listen to that. Hozier has said that there’s some lyrics in that one that he’s particularly proud of.

I never comment on videos but this was one of the most amazing album reaction videos I have ever watched. Hozier is one of my top 3 favorite artists and I think you now know why! You should react to his first and second albums as well, especially the second one. My favorite song is from his 2nd album and its called "Shrike". I feel like you would love that song and really connect with it. Thank you:))

What an intro to the majesty that is Hozier’s body of work!!! Having been standing in awe of his lyrical/musical/vocal prowess for a good decade, I cannot imagine experiencing this masterpiece in one go basically as a first listen to him. Your reaction was amazing. I’m so glad it touched you as powerfully as it did the rest of us. :) I cannot get through a few of these songs without crying, which is usually a good indicator for how high they rank individually haha. My CURRENT top 5: 1) Abstract (Psychopomp) 2) Unknown/Nth 3) Who We Are 4) De Selby (Part 1) 5) To Someone From a Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe) Thanks for reacting to this album! It’s been living in my head rent free since the singles started dropping. Definitely subscribing, can’t wait for you to get to his other works. :D

I, Carrion never fails to make me sob my eyes out. he’s the most perfect story teller ever and i really just love hozier with my entire being. thank you for reviewing this perfect album 🫶

You should definitely listen to more of Hozier's music, he's a literal genius. My top 5 from UU at the moment are: 1. Unknown/nth 2. Francesca 3. First time 4. Damage gets done 5. De Selby (both 1 an 2 I can't chose ok) Honorable mention to Through me (The flood) which didn't make it to the album but is probably one of my favourite Hozier songs.

FAVORITE… Wasteland Baby! Check out his interviews- Francesca is an extrapolation from another story. His mom is still alive, and an artist. Love you discovering Hozier ❤❤ Thank you for giving me a new level of interpretation ‼️

My favourites are probably 5. Through Me (The Flood) (the lyricism just makes me feel so. much.) 4. Butchered Tongue (such a beautiful song, the way he captures the topic is so moving) 3. Francesca (as a literature student I am legally obligated to love this, also saw this one live and it was divine) 2. Eat Your Young (again, literature student but also HBOs Hannibal is my favourite show, also just an objectively wildly good song, soo catchy) 1. I Carrion (I can’t really put it into words but this makes me immediately think of the people I love the most, sounds cheesy but this song just feels like pure love to me) Also I think Unknown (Nth) is about the relationship of Lucifer and God from the perspective of Lucifer who can’t stop loving God even after his fall. Not 100% sure tho

dan!!! i'm SO excited to see you reacting to hozier!!! him and taylor swift are my top 2 artists of all time and i love your taylor reactions so i really hope you continue diving into hozier's discography!! your reaction and breakdown were amazing, you are so perceptive when analyzing lyrics. i always love hearing your thoughts 💗 this will probably change as i listen to the album more but my favourite song rn is francesca. its such a beautiful retelling/interpretation of francesca and paolo's story from dante's inferno. like two people who are condemned to hell for the sin of loving each other, but saying they would do it all over again if they got to spend another minute together?? 😭😭 i get goosebumps every time

I cry to all his songs. They are poetry set to beautiful music with a powerful angelic voice

Dan you have such a beautiful ability to feel emotions so purely, it's just so amazing to watch. Thank you for this reaction and your interpretations, they really help inform my own. ❤️

I really enjoyed hearing your reaction and thoughts! I think you would love the deeper meaning of the songs and how they relate to Dante’s inferno. Francesca is one of my favorite tracks on the album and it has a beautiful literary backstory.

Top 5 songs on this album for me are First Light, De Selby 1, De Selby 2, Francesca, and Damage Gets Done. What a phenomenal album. Better get nominated for some Grammys. And having the album go along with and be inspired by Dante's Inferno, beautifully done!

“Anything But” is a really interesting song in the sense that it can be interpreted in a few ways. You picked up on the speaker loving someone so much they ‘wouldn’t get a kick’ if he were a stampede or ‘a riptide wouldn’t take them out’ but the actual meaning is that he doesn’t want anything to do with them. Such as when he says ‘if I had deaths job, you would live forever’, almost like a little joke.

I love the line in eat your young that goes "come and get some, skinning the children for a wardrum, putting food on the table selling bombs and guns. its quicker and easier to eat you young." because hozier always has really strong political messages in his songs (swan upon leda was his response to roe v. wade being overturned for example) and that line was about the selfishness of world leaders for sacrificing the lives of children in their wars and it makes me SCREAM BECAUSE HOZIER IS ZO GOOD OMFG

I just discovered your channel and I love how you talk about music!!! Just the way you find connections between what's happening sonically and what's happening lyrically is so fascinating and really adds to my understanding of the music. And you gleaned so much from the songs without any background info which I think is a testament to your analytical skills as well as Hozier's ability to communicate his message. I hope you react to more Hozier! This album is an absolute triumph and very thematically cohesive, but his other two full length albums are as poetic and thoughtfully rendered. I would love to hear your thoughts about them!

Your empathy really shines through the music you listen to, and it really makes your videos very enjoyable to watch.

Really intelligent and insightful analysis! I've seen a few interviews of him discussing the themes for these songs and for a lot of them you've been spot on! Really impressive!

Glad you got to hear these gorgeous songs. Over Covid, apparently his mom had stopped by his house and left flowers without him knowing, and he came in to the kitchen and saw them and that moment really struck him, she painted the covers of his first ep and two albums too! Instead of pictures or digital art, those are oil paintings for his self titled and for Wasteland, Baby!! There’s a video somewhere where they did a photo shoot for wasteland baby and then she painted the cover based off of it! Not sure if she did the Unreal Unearth cover too

For me it’s: 1. Who We Are 2. Son of Nyx 3. Abstract 4. Butchered Tongue 5. All Things End But it’s so hard to choose honestly

my top 5: 1. to someone from a warm climate 2. abstract 3. i, carrion 4. who we are 5. first light i was SOBBING the first time i heard the album, and trying to keep it quiet cause my husband was sleeping right next to me. i felt so spiritually fed by this album and it resonates so closely in a way i cant describe. im so excited to see him in concert in october 😭

The ah ah ah ah part in Who We Are takes my soul out of my body out to space for a second

Your reaction to Butchered tongue is exactly the same as mine 😭❤️ I listened this album at the midnight, such an amazing experience

I actually think Unknown/Nth is the only song where he wishes he's never known the lover. It's like they betrayed the singer, and he's saying, "I thought we knew each other, but you never understood me, really." the lyrics "That I'd walk so far just to take/The injury of finally knowing you" and "There are some people, love, who are better unknown" Make me think this way

My favourites are Francesca, First Time, Abstract, I Carrion and First Light - in no particular order I love them all. Tbf each time I listen to it I find a new favourite

In De Selby (part 1), "a darkness so deep that god at the start couldn't bear" refers to the creation myth in genesis where the first thing god says is let there be light. The narrator of that song says "no closer could I be to god or why he would do what he's done" because the narrator's mind is trying to fill the empty space, too.

Ive been a hozier fan for years and im so happy hes getting more recognition, his music and lyricism is unmatched

im sure someone has already mentioned it, but Hozier started in an interview that the album takes heavy influence from Dante’s Inferno, even having songs grouped on the vinyl under each circle of hell. I loved seeing the lyrics from your perspective though, just shows the endless layers of depth hidden in the songs ❤

All of the songs in this album is so personal to me, specially Francesca, unknown, first time and butchered tongue( cause they tried to butchered my mother tongue as well and some how they were successful) The album is based on Dante’s inferno and some references is are in this book ( for example Francesca) I love hozier, his songs, his voice and his performance. He is a gem in this dark and cruel world.

I can’t wait for you to figure out the Dante’s inferno, third policeman, and a modest proposal references because the lyrics get even deeper (and eat your young makes way more sense lol) PLEASE listen to his other albums. He is an unparalleled lyricist

My top 5: 1. De Selby (Part 1) 2. De Selby (Part 2) 3. Son of Nyx 4. Butchered Tongue 5. Unknown / Nth (It was so hard to pick)

In case anyone’s wondering what De Selby means, someone made a really good comment explaining it on the lyric video to De Selby (part 2). Basically though De Selby is a character created by Flann O’Brien who is known for their philosophical beliefs.

Watching you experience this for the first time is giving me so much joy. Hozier puts out such beautiful, moving albums. All things end is my favorite.

'Who We Are' has got to be my all time favourite of his- something about it really reaches to my soul. However, I would eat up anything he produces lol, he can do no wrong.

Top 5 you ask? well well well... 1.) To someone from a warm climate (wow) 2.) First light (wow) 3.)Damage get's done (brandi carlile favs) 4.) Unknown/ nth 5.)Eat your young the two wows are interchangeable

The moments when you were feeling the music and you said 'Ooohh" or "urgh", I said ooohh and urgh

Wasteland, Baby! would be such a trip and I would love to see you react ! Your reactions & analyses/reflections were so good to watch ❤

I, Carrion is about Icarus, but told through a different imagining of the story. Hozier talks about it when he introduces the song, there’s some videos of him explaining it but basically it’s imagining Icarus’s fall as being such a lovely experience that he can’t believe he’s died when he eventually hits the sea, and him being in denial about being dead. Comparing it to being in love is such a beautiful idea, this song is one of my favorites and it rips my heart out every time

all are MASTERPIECES. It is not an album of song. It is his poems spoken w music.

I would give anything to listen to francesca for the first time again😭😫

I would love to see you react to his other albums! You should really start with his self titled then move onto Wasteland, Baby! I know what you mean about being scared to touch take me to church but I think an in depth dive into the song will surprise you!

"It's really dark." WELLLLL... as it's The Divone Comedy...

The last part of Unknow always stunning me, because that last sound that it can be hear is the same that a vinil disc make when you finish one face, when the spike reach the end of the face. So, to me, he add that sound to the end of the song to mark that everything that comes later is the beginning of another history, of a new chapter in his life.

This album makes me feel all the emotions. Particularly Francesca, Abstract (Polychomp), To Someone from a Warm a Climate, and Through me (The flood). To me, this album says everything I've been feeling for the past two years since my first love died by drowning. It brings back so many memories and emotions and I'm so greatful for Andrew.

Hozier is magic.

it was truly an experience. i've only known take me to church and blood upon the snow, but this was my doorway into the full world of hozier. It felt so nice, and emotional listening to this while driving down the country roads while the golden hour sun was shining on me.

Francesca takes a lot of inspiration from true history and Dante’s inferno it’s well worth looking into

Francesca is actually about the historical figure/ character from Dante’s inferno Francesca da Rimini who had a relationship with her husbands brother and when the husband found out he killed them both and in Dante’s inferno their souls are forever together in the second circle of hell, lust

Man, yeah, I have so much I could say about every song here. Hozier albums always send me down research spirals and I end up learning about history and poetry and music from all the references he makes, lol. You can analyze them for hours and keep finding new depth. I'm really enjoying your reaction here and especially your comments on production (which I know nothing about).

loved your reaction!! it's hard to find someone who really dives into the lyrics and origins of the songs and gives honest and raw opinions about them these days. keep up the good work! subscribed :))

In Butchered Tongue, not only is he talking about the tragedy of Irish history but he's connecting with a broader indigenous experience. Hushpukena and Appalachicola are towns in Michigan and Florida that retain names from indigenous languages. Hozier talked about speaking to people from those places and asking what the names meant and having no one know.

incredible analysis !!!

I have seen Hozier in concert twice. When you think he sounds good on record, he blows you away. He sounds BETTER live than on recordings and his published songs. It's raw, beautiful, impressive, and the best voice I have ever heard live. He doesn't edit his voice in any way when recording.