“Unreal Unearth,” the third studio album from Irish singer-songwriter Hozier — the stage name of 33-year-old Andrew Hozier-Byrne, is a lush, 16-track exploration of the ideas and people that we let consume us. Thus, the beauty of “Unreal Unearth” comes from its thematic depth and the ways in which Hozier utilizes sound and lyrics to continually unearth (and therefore reveal) that which makes us human. In this album, Hozier cleverly draws from Dante Alighieri’s epic “Divine Comedy,” — more specifically the poem “Inferno” — exploring Dante’s nine circles of hell. Just as the poets Dante and Virgil travel deeper and deeper into hell in “Inferno,” the themes of the songs in “Unreal Unearth” take the listener on their own sonic journey of love and sorrow. These feelings of desperation take a different shape in “Eat Your Young,” the sixth song from “Unreal Unearth” and one that has quickly garnered over 83 million streams on Spotify.

Source: Forbes September 09, 2023 06:37 UTC