Hozier
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It’s not typically that you simply stumble throughout a songwriter whose lyrics each sound and skim like poetry. When these lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the religious ardour and craving of gospel and the blues, you work you’ve chanced upon one thing particular. And so it’s with 23-yr-previous Andrew Hozier-Byrne, an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from County Wicklow who goes by the identify of Hozier.
Hozier releases his self-titled debut album on Columbia Records, following his two EPs Take Me To Church and From Eden. The new album produced by Ron Kirwan (PJ Harvey and Depeche Mode). Hozier will function the hit single “Take Me To Church” in addition to his most up-to-date launch “Sedated.”
Raised in a musical household, Hozier’s childhood and adolescent listening was dominated, he says, “by Chicago blues, Texan blues, Chess Records, Motown, after which I found jazz, however extra importantly, Delta blues that terribly haunting sound. Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, individuals like that. Later, it was Pink Floyd, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, plus Tom Waits was an enormous, big affect. I was all the time drawn to singers with one thing haunting about their voices. The similar goes for writers akin to James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. You can’t outline what it’s, nevertheless it buries itself deep in your soul.”
After a string of bought out dates and electrifying performances together with TV appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hozier will return stateside when he launches his first nationwide headline tour this fall. The tour crisscrosses the nation earlier than wrapping up with two exhibits in New York City.
Tastemakers and critics have wholeheartedly embraced his spirited and soulful sound. He’s drawn reward from NPR, New York Magazine, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, MTV Buzzworthy, Consequence of Sound, and extra. Most lately he was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Tiny Desk Concert.ShopTV Exclusive
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