Apple Music host Zane Lowe of “Unreal Unarth,” “It’s rare that you hear an album that can place you in this magnificent, uplifting, and thoughtful space. “
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Hozier joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 for a verbal exchange around his recently released album, Unreal Unarth. During the interview, Lowe notes, “It’s rare that you hear an album that can immerse you in this magnificent and uplifting area for reflection. It doesn’t look like any album I’ve listened to for a long time.
During the verbal exchange, which you can watch in full below, the two talk about a variety of topics. They dive deep into Hozier’s inspiration for the album and its writing. It’s also worth noting that the Irish singer-songwriter tackles the subject. effect of his debut album, adding the hit single ‘Take Me to Church’, reflecting on the task 10 years later.
Reflecting on the themes he explored during the making of Unreal Unearth, Hozier said “I knew that there was a lot of light and shade on the record, for sure. And knew that it was going to be part of the idea of touching on these themes that are all kind of universal, like playing with this idea of circles.
“I knew it was going to be thematic, but there are also. . . yes, you can’t. . . Telling is like any experience of falling in love, or breaking up, or thinking about it after a hit, or experiencing at this point, nothing is perfectly good. No time is ever. . . Every experience is filled with a multitude of things. »
Elaborating further on the pipeline and progression of his songwriting, Hozier said, “I think I turned to it first for myself. I didn’t think it would be as inspiring as that. I sought to move on to this poem. Parte. De me, as a lyricist, I suppose, had all those poems that I was looking for to get closer to, all those old poems.
“Yeah, it is very human…The feeling was, there was always some part of me, and this is the macabre part of me, and there’s a kind of … Even since I was a child, I just wanted to hear this long, very descriptive, very visual telling of a man walking through hell, in a very visual way. And so inventive. So there’s that part of me.”
Later on in the interview, Hozier also touched on the impact of his breakthrough hit “Take Me To Church” on his career and reflecting on that 10 years later…
“I think it was too heavy,” he admits. “I was proud of that song, and there was a component of me deep down, if I can admit it, that idea of the song being written and written for me. And I was an unknown, unknown Irish musician. I’d never sold out [small Dublin venue] Whelan’s, I’d never played at Whelan’s. You know what I mean? I was doing songs and open mic canopy stuff. So to write, I figured I could enjoy it through a small organization of people.
“I think that in my box or in my song tradition, there is not much revelation of the fact of confrontation. We’d possibly be at a low point for that right now, but it’s just in my box, in my same song tradition. “
Buy or stream Unreal Unearth.