#andrew john hozier byrne

[septemberkisses]

hozier wrote 'too sweet' for the "i can fix him" sunshine girls who have always been too good too nice, for the people pleasers who are terrified of failure, and for those who find the darkness intriguing

[mythologiestofollow]

HOZIER – FROM EDEN

[dalyankiz1981]

Hozier being another completely relatable Irishman 🇮🇪

I can’t get through those final scenes and that musical score without tearing up… In fact, no that’s being generous - I’m sobbing like a baby! 😭 💔

[todayontumblr]

Friday, August 18.

Hozier.

Salutations. Singer, songwriter, and eternal dreamboat #hozier today bestows us with his latest immaculate release Unreal Unearth (2023), his first album in four years. And it's safe to say it has it all and then some: inspired by Dante's Inferno and the concept of the nine circles of hell, a love letter to Greek mythology and Irish folklore, drawn from his own experiences of the pandemic, and displaying his seemingly endless talent for everything from piano ballads to up-tempo folk-pop to fuzzy brash rock to funk and R&B to afrobeat. It's a case of you name it, he got it. 

Naturally, the critics have gone bonkers for every one of its 62-minute running time—but frankly, we care not for the oppressive opinions of those in the expensive seats. What really matters is the fandom community. As luck would have it, there happens to be a rather formidable one here on Tumblr. Unreal Unearth is out today, at the very longest last, and it's something close to an unhealthy (affectionate) jubilation. Why not ~jubilate~ with us. 

[whenthep8wn]

Yall, can we please talk about how Irish hozier sounds on nothern attitude....

[battlestariroh]

Só if Hozier falls in love, just a little, oh a little every day with someone new; & Florence goes from road to road, bed to bed, lover to lover; how long until they do this with one another?

[apollolynx98]

I'm feeling masochist so I'm gonna listen to some Hozier songs that make me question my existence & ask myself that if love is real why I can just feel the shadow of it when I listen to his music.

[oppulenceee]

After finally seeing him live , I’m here to declare my renewed and seemingly undying love for Hozier.

🫡❤️

[thejinxmaster]

Andrew John Hozier-Byrne running to write a written apology as we speak

[2bearsinatrenchcoat]

i NEED songs similar to Jackboot Jump by Hozier. like nobody understands. i could listen to this song on loop for YEARSSSS but if i do that ill get tired, so i need songs similar .

like, the energy, the percussion, the KEY??? i love this song with my whole heart someone PLEASE give me recommendations 😩🙏

edit: not to mention the tempo!!! angel of small death is SIMILAR, with the minor key and percussion and all that, but the pace is so slow compared. :(

[eddie-munsons-balls]

This would heal me

Vc: shelbs0o (on TikTok)

[cup-noodle]

hozier says pledge allegiance to the flag 🏳️‍🌈

[mythologiestofollow]

HOZIER – ILLINOIS BLUES (COVER)

[redwolf17]

Much of Hozier’s work is out of his deep appreciation for the work of Black artists and naming that—along with admitting just how much there is to be thankful and grateful in that truth. “If I weren’t to write music that was authentic to my influences, I would no longer feel [like] an authentic artist,” he asserts. “But what wouldn’t feel right is to not mention that all of my influences—the vast majority of my influences—come from Black artistry.” He likens it to how, if someone from Poland or Scotland came to Ireland and were a remarkable uilleann pipe player and they carved out a life and a career and were rewarded for their pipe playing, but didn’t mention Seamus Ennis or Finbar Furey, it wouldn’t make sense to him. “All I can do is keep pointing back,” he adds. “What I try to do is create breadcrumb trails to constantly signpost in the work where it is coming from—whether it be naming a song after Jackie Wilson or, in a song like ‘Almost,’ there’s something like 18 nods to jazz songs.”

The island where Hozier comes from has its own history with survival and escaping the horrors of colonial rule. Even though he donated 100% of the publishing money from his single “Jackboot Jump” to the NAACP, he can’t answer for America’s history, nor can he rise to the question of answering for America’s particular failures towards Black people—or how they are still, actively, kept out of conversations around becoming the beneficiaries of industries that make fortunes off of the music that is built from their innovations.

“I listen to music everyday that’s released in America and I find gospel chords, neo-soul chords, jazz chords, R&B beats, hip-hop beats, the legacies of funk,” Hozier says. “Gospel and jazz are constantly used in modern popular music, but what isn’t part of the conversation is that, no matter what, the music is all influenced by Black artists and it rests on the shoulders of the achievements of Black artistry. All I can do is be honest about that and try to honor it where I can. The idea of writing music that isn’t influenced by Black artistry, that ship has sailed. It’s impossible. I challenge anyone to do it, but I don’t think it can be done. If you look back at Frederick Douglass and his travels to Limerick, meeting Daniel O’Connell—our emancipator—the struggles are tied. The question of anti-racism, it’s a global question—so I try to just acknowledge that influence and honor that work.”

Reminder that Hozier, as he himself repeatedly says, is not an Irish folk artist, or a fey bard from 1,000 years ago, he’s a contemporary Irish artist who takes his main inspiration from blues, soul, jazz, R&B, and other genres of specifically Black American music. If you like his music, awesome, but let’s recognize where it comes from :)

Here’s a playlist to check out some incredible Black artists whom Hozier has mentioned as inspirations.

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

happy 34th birthday, andrew john hozier byrne. we are readily awaiting your ep 💟

[super-big-naturals]

You? Be loved?? WHY???