Hozier's new songs just dropped . Fun fact about me: I've never been normal about this man. Excuse me while I go absolutely insane.

this has been me for the past month and im ok with that

y'all remember when dante wrote a fanfiction of the bible and then hozier wrote a fanfiction of said fanfiction?? iconic if you ask me

that man has the capability to make me go absolutely feral

hozier really makes albums that are just like: here’s a song about how love is tragic love is death love is torturous oh but also it is the sustenance of life and we find reasons to endure all of that because we find another person who makes it wortwhile and there is beauty in the grip of love. now here’s a song with heavy social commentary on bigotry and corruption and western colonization and the death of languages and how fucked the world is sometimes oh but also we must build revolutions and fight back and there are countless who do and who have over time and there is hope, so much hope, hope of our own making that what is good and just will prevail. now here’s a song about nothing lasts and existence is futile but also god is it precious, so precious, and we must seize it by the neck and run with it. now here’s a song about transcendence and also would you love me if I were a worm? oh now here’s another song about love and death. and by the way I’m going to form a cohesive narrative throughout the album by taking inspiration from famous literary works, mythology, and concepts. no there are no breaks or intermissions in my album, no room to breathe at all. what do you mean you have whiplash. what is that.

Not a Transformers post but Hozier released his album and no I’m not sane or okay. I wanna talk about Butchered Tongue because there’s barely any discourse about it and I am absolutely inconsolable about it. While there are a lot of elements/ central themes of Irish colonization and the preservation of Irish language and inherently history/ culture with it, as a Person of Color, I was so deeply moved. It is a song of beautiful mourning, of sorrow in the blood and scars that run through the dying of or absolute death of a language. However, it is also a celebration and expression of admiration and awe over the strength and perseverance of language and those who wield it. Every verb, noun, accent, rolling of the tongue. Every simple sound, letter, article. All of it is an act of defiance of the voice to the oppressor. It is a fibre of being healing the deep wounds inflicted by the colonizer. Every utterance screams “We are here and we are moving onward even while still bleeding.” Even then, Hozier still captivated the grief that comes with the fact that…not all cultures have that. Not every community has the ability to learn their languages. Some are gone entirely. Some stopped being passed down for the sake of survival and assimilation. The anguish that comes with a bloody tongue, one that cannot speak what it was born to utter, to scream to sing…it’s a feeling difficult to put into words. To have this song in the Circle of Violence not only brings to light the physical violence against the Irish in their colonization, but the invisible consequences of such brutality on the colonized. The murders and scarring didn’t stop at flesh. Even some languages that survived didn’t escape without scars and wounds, infused with the languages of their colonizer (ex- Tagalog having pieces of Spanish in it). This was a love letter and kiss of praise yet also a funeral dirge to those wounded by colonization, and I have never sobbed so hard over a song before. It stirred such deep grief in me that I cannot explain.

Totally normal indeed

look I know there’s a joke about “white hozier fans” as in the people who listen to him for being a forest spirit and don’t get the bigger message behind his music and the Black influences that define a lot of his work, but something I really like about Unreal Unearth is it kind of steps away from the “forest father” feel with its production (less acoustics than self-titled, leans more into rock than wasteland, baby!) and there are significantly less love songs/songs related to relationships than the last albums which really forces the listener to actually understand what he’s trying to communicate, so I hope it’s a learning opportunity for people who haven’t yet grasped the really big social justice and social commentary strand in his music

Me rn

"And to men, also, just be wary of any mentality that would make cattle or make vessels of women. Because that same mentality will make machines and tools of you, and make monsters of you."

- Hozier

the holy trinity (Hozier, Wasteland, Baby!, Unreal Unearth)

Why Would You Be Loved is the anti-No Plan. They're in conversation with each other.

One asks "why would you love and care and create and try to help others when there is always going to be suffering and pain and the death of everything?"

And the other asks "why would you wallow in the suffering and pain and death when you could love? everything is going to end anyway."

Rip Aragorn, you would’ve loved Unreal Unearth

i'm fairly sure that each time i hear "and though I burn how could I fall when I am lifted by every word you say to me'' my soul literally leaves my body and i start levitating

The Ash Lad and the Wolf – Theodor Kittelsen // In the Woods Somewhere – Hozier