#unreal unearth unheard

[starrlikesbooks]

About 70% of my brain is totally dedicated to thinking about Hozier, so here are some Hozier book recs!

Self Titled:

• Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

• Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

Nina Cried Power:

• No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

• Soulswift by Megan Bannen

Wasteland, Baby:

• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

• Milo and Marcos at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes

• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

Unheard, Unearth:

• Icarus by K Ancrum

• Death's Country by R. M. Romero

• Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil

[gwendoodlin]

New Music, New Drawing!

In honor of ‘Unheard’ releasing today, I figured I’d once again draw Hozier!

[allamericanb-tch]

remus lupin’s favorite things 

his whiskey neat 

coffee

black, in his bed at 3

[purple-mushroom-cap]

wildflower and barley is like when you're standing on the edge of your life seeing your regrets lined up next to each other and then someone from the sunlight brushes their hand against your shoulder and and tells you that its okay and that you lived and you were worth all the love you've been given and gently coaxes you away

[cannibalgirlfrnd]

hozier performing an acoustic set of from eden, dublin 2019. I get brought to tears every time I watch this.

(don’t ask me how to get the full footage bc idk 😭 the concert was professionally recorded because it was supposed to be televised but it never ended up happening. somehow some fans managed to 🏴‍☠️this specific part, I just screen-recorded it and have had it saved for 4yrs)

UPDATED : the full concert film is here !!!

[tired-and-swaggy]

how does hozier never miss??? this needs to be studied????

[hozieresque]

god didn't give me a dick because he knew i'd get hard from listening to hozier

[freakazoidvoid]

Thank you Andrew John Hozier-Bryne for single handedly keeping the fan-fiction title industrial complex well stocked

[justgivemeabookplease]

Mind you I've only listened to the song once so this could be totally wrong in like a month when I've played it to death but I find Too Sweet really interesting for the Circle of Gluttony because I can't tell which person he's condemning.

On one hand, the narrator talks about sleeping late and partaking in simple pleasures that are not healthy for him. And we as a society tend to think of those consumptions as having bad morals: sleeping late is lazy, staying up late is irresponsible, drinking is sinful, and coffee at 3 am is unsafe. But he doesn't describe any signs of overindulging which is what gluttony is actually about. (“You don’t got to pretend, baby now and then don’t you just want to wake up dark as a lake…”)

On the other hand, the person being described as the opposite is very disciplined, very health-conscious, to the point of not letting themself "indulge" at all. This could be the overindulgence that gluttony criticizes, even though what they are indulging in is healthy and good for their body, it is too strict and therefore too "sweet" (as in pure). After all, "too" as an adverb makes the adjective excessive. Being too pure and being gluttonous for it feels very akin to "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

It's not about whether the narrator deserves this partner, as TikTok was quick to attribute the song's meaning to. The partner is not too sweet in that the narrator is unable to enjoy the taste of them (as someone accustomed to a more bitter pallet like whiskey and black coffee would find it hard to eat something sweet). It's a question of which is worse: feeding the body or feeding the soul.

[crawlhometohozier]

Don't mind me, just going to be listening to the snippet of Too sweet until March 22nd.

[bookholichany]

Its actually so funny that you think i’d be able to just get over the lyrics "This year, I swear it will be buried in words (The diggers are diggin' the earth)

Some close to the surface, some close to the casket

I feel as useful as dirt, put my body to work"

[foxglovedforest]

y'all are out here losing it about wildflower and barley but bitch what about Empire Now?? what about a song gently inviting you to imagine a kinder world at the end of the empire a hundred years from now?? The comfort of a future so bright it's burning? Of knowing a better world is in the grasp of our hands and its coming? Idk about y'all but I needed to hear that

[gwendoodlin]

The many faces of Andrew Hozier-Byrne! Drew these from his interview with Lewis Howes which was so lovely! Also if you haven’t listened to Wasteland, Baby! Extended, go do it 🫵

[thisphantomlife]

Wildflower and Barley is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.

I relate to it from the perspective of a disabled person, which is certainly not what he had in mind writing it but the grief and loss of normal life is something many of us knew well before the pandemic hit.

That longing to still feel useful and valued even when you no longer feel you have anything to offer.

When your body doesn’t move as it once did and you ache to just use it fully.

When the world around you has changed dramatically. When you become part of a community that is constantly in mourning.

It’s universal and specific.

I love him for this song.

[cannibalgirlfrnd]

i am having the strongest symptoms of hysteria right now. this is straight up p*rn oh i know he’s good with his hands. everyone say thank you to ireland

credit: hozier_gifs on twt

[musings-n-museums]

for the soulmates & people wanting to believe it's fate

road to hell (reprise) from hadestown by anais mitchell // francesca by hozier // orphée et eurydice performed by lyric opera of chicago // san junipero from black mirror written by charlie brooker // hanap-hanap by james reid and nadine lustre // run away with me from killer track by starkid // la la land directed by damien chazelle // excerpt from euripides // all things end by hozier // soulmates directed by min yong-geun

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