![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Time to get slinky, to slip into something more comfortable, to get it on and get it off? Yes, but there’s a sad ending. The most well-developed examples are to be heard on the likes of Francesca, a mountain of a song, written with Jennifer Decilveo, with doom chords that Black Sabbath would sell their souls for, I, Carrion/Icarian – another co-write with Decilveo, this one swapping volume for the decorum of Simon and Garfunkel – and Damage Gets Done, a commercial radio banger with seven writing credits that features vocals by Brandi Carlile. The differences are subtle but robust: the songs are incontestably Hozier, but the input of his co-producer Daniel Tannenbaum and an array of co-songwriters can’t be ignored. Hozier sings in Irish on the songs De Selby (Part 1) and To Someone from a Warm Climate that is subtitled Uisce Fhuaraithe, which translates as “chilled water” but which he elegantly recasts as “the feeling of coolness only water brings”.Īnother first is certain to have a bearing on the commercial remit of Unreal Unearth: this is the first of Hozier’s albums to feature co-writers. Unreal Unearth may continue to highlight Hozier’s somewhat more academic interests, but the songs here are as rooted by earthly concerns – physical presence is as “natural as another leg around you in the bed frame”, he sings in To Someone from a Warm Climate – as they are by scholarly matters – “And though I burn, how could I fall when I am lifted by every word you say to me? If anything should fall at all, it’s the world that falls away from me,” he sighs in I, Carrion/Icarian. Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman, Dante’s Inferno, the Roman poet Ovid, Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf: these aren’t random works culled from Jedward’s book collection but, rather, some of the inspirations for Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s third album. ![]()
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