Hozier - Unreal Unearth | Full Album Reaction
Added 2024-02-20 01:37:25 +0000 UTCTHIS IS INSANE WHERE HAS THIS BEEN
warning: LOTS of talking.
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Genuinely curious to know if you made it to his concert because I just attended one this past Saturday and I feel like I was changed for the better 🥲. He was amazing.
Marissa Franco
2024-08-19 15:00:28 +0000 UTCyou being upset about this album not receiving a single grammy nomination at Abstract (a song that quite literally is everything to me as it’s my favorite hozier song ever and has gone to me top songs streamed of all time before the album is even a year old) means a lot to me actually
Mythri Partha
2024-08-10 13:50:02 +0000 UTCI've tried to be better at that! Appreciate you lots Des <3
Michael Beveraggi
2024-03-23 17:18:06 +0000 UTCalso, i would love a 1 month out update lol! i know my opinions have changed a ton since i originally listened, and i would be interested in seeing how yours do too. re: concerts, i’m traveling from georgia to wyoming to see him this year, and i’m super excited!
des williams
2024-03-07 07:15:35 +0000 UTCsomething i have always loved about you as a reactor is when you don’t know or understand something and you look it up to make sure you properly grasp the point of a project. this album was my favorite last year and is one of my favorites of all time, seeing you enjoy it so much was such a good time! thank you for sharing this reaction with us.
des williams
2024-03-07 07:11:22 +0000 UTCI’ve been SOO EXCITED for you to get here and I can’t believe I haven’t seen your reaction until now! Thank you for giving this album the time and respect it truly deserves. Somehow it is even better live. I went in October and have tickets again in August 😂 The stage and background is set to make it look like he descends into hell and then reascends with First Light. He also performs many of his older songs! So amazing!
Samantha Hercules
2024-03-06 02:03:39 +0000 UTCHis interview with Zane Lowe about this album is so so good. Highly recommended.
Stephanie Orman
2024-03-05 21:54:13 +0000 UTCI saw him live in december and this just brought back all the memories! Such an amazing concert, I’ve been a lowkey fan of his since 2015 but my love grew a lot this past year. Loved hearing your thoughts on this!
CC
2024-03-05 16:23:16 +0000 UTCHow did I miss this! I'm just seeing this and I'm studying for an exam tomorrow... so unfair that I have to wait, lol.
April Wier
2024-02-27 03:21:55 +0000 UTCI had already listened to this album, but didn't get the chance to dive deep with the lyrics. It was really enjoyable going through it a little slower and deeper with you! Thanks!
chimelle6
2024-02-26 00:12:47 +0000 UTCPleeeaase listen to more Hozier!
Bailey Gennings
2024-02-25 01:20:54 +0000 UTCOmg I’ve been waiting for you to react to Hoizer! So excited for this one 😍
Jaime
2024-02-24 19:42:57 +0000 UTCYou should do a reaction to the music videos. The music video for All Things End is special.
Marissa Franco
2024-02-24 15:45:28 +0000 UTCYou need to react to his 2019 album Wasteland, Baby.
Angelique Juliette
2024-02-23 18:39:50 +0000 UTCThe whole time I was going ohhh no he doesn’t realize what “moment” is being talked about
Shaelyn Ahern
2024-02-22 00:14:38 +0000 UTCLoved this ❤️ my first hozier experience 👏🏻 Big fan og brandi Carlisle. If you want to I would love a reaction to her album “By the way - I forgive you”.
Ida Lisby
2024-02-21 18:12:58 +0000 UTC"this feels like a celebration of life" about Abstract is so funny 😭
Fatima Ali Hussain
2024-02-21 12:38:33 +0000 UTCI remember hearing someone said "Hoizer doesn't right about love, he writes about devotion" and that has stuck with me ever since.
Hey it’s just Grace
2024-02-21 05:42:24 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you listened to this album! It's my favorite! You should do his first album too! I was unable to get tickets to his tour stop here but he is doing a festival here THIS Saturday and I got a one day pass! It's my first time seeing him! I can't wait!
Shawna Lea
2024-02-21 02:56:35 +0000 UTCI’m back… after watching this twice, I MUST tell you how much fun this was to watch you experience this!!! Hozier truly is a poet and i could have watched 3 more hours of this!! You really felt the beauty of this album. Now i think you need to listen to Wasteland Baby… 😎
Maryn Levi
2024-02-20 22:27:57 +0000 UTCI'm so happy this album won the poll!! I remember when it came out, I waited to have my free alone time, sat on my reading chair with the lyrics pulled out and listened to this audiobook, I mean album. Seriously, I love the way Irish authors write, and Hozier is definitely included here. His lyrics are always so poetic, deep, and with his voice it makes for a whole different world experience. I think I'm responsible for half the streams of First Light.
Mariana
2024-02-20 17:51:47 +0000 UTCAlso, I think Uiscefhuaraithe is really special in the context of the rest of the song because it’s a word that you quite literally would not have been taught unless you come from Ireland (a very cold climate). And I think it’s a really beautiful testament to teaching your partner things about your ubbringing and your life that they wouldn’t have thought of before, but are important to truly knowing and understanding who you are
Elise Herzog
2024-02-20 13:29:08 +0000 UTCalso sorry for the long ass comment lol thought you might like the context/history! :) my favourites from the album are abstract (psychopomp), i carrion (icarian), francesca, butchered tongue and first light. but honestly, the whole album is amazing.
jade
2024-02-20 12:58:38 +0000 UTCgaeilge is the name for the irish language in irish. depending on what province in ireland you're from, it's pronounced differently. i'm from ulster (in the north of ireland) and we say gay-lee-ga but someone from connacht (con-uck-t) (north west of ireland) might say gway-lee-ga. uiscefhuaraithe, as you found out, basically means water cooled/cooled by water. eat your young is actually based on jonathan swift's essay a modest proposal where he basically targets/mocks the british policy towards starving irish peasants by suggesting that the irish should just eat their young or even sell them as food to british aristocracy as a means of earning money. it's meant as a mockery of capitalism, aristocracy, class wars and colonialism etc. butchered tongue is, of course, based on the british's attempt to completely eradicate the irish language. despite what you were talking about, the irish language isn't a completely eradicated language it still survives to this day, however, sadly many people are of the opinion that 'well it's dying out anyway, only about a third of the enire population speak a little bit of it, with even less speaking it fluently so what's the point of preserving it especially since english is the dominant world language anyway'. preservation of it is made even harder by the divide between republicans/nationalists (people who believe in a united nation of ireland) and loyalists/unionists (people who believe ireland should belong to the british union/united kingdom) as when 32 counties of ireland received their independence from the united kingdom, the 6 counties that are now known as northern ireland remained a part of the united kingdom. the republic of ireland has a majority catholic and nationlist population, whereas, northern ireland for most of history had a majority protestant and unionist population (recently polls show more catholic %). the trouble, then, comes with unionist and loyalist politicians in northern ireland refusing to recognise irish/gaeilge as a legitimate language. for example, in the republic of ireland road signs (which hozier mentions in the song) have both the english and irish names of places on them, which is one way we are attempting to preserve the language. however, ni politicians believe that by attempting to preserve the language in ni by adding irish to road signs instead of solely english, that this is oppressive to the unionist and protestant population of ni. the celebration by an indigenous peoples of a previously suppressed culture and it's survival after at attempt of eradication is thought of as an oppression when we attempt to celebrate our culture simply because to unionists/loyalists the simple thought of being irish/irish people is oppressive to them. so, very complicated lol. so hozier (who actually had a protestant upbringing though he went to catholic school) is basically celebrating the continued survival of a language that was basically this close to exstinction but also reflecting sadly on the fact that, because of that attempt, and the lack of people that speak it, it's sadly 'foreign' to him because english is our mother language now. we celebrate it in any way we still can but because of actions outside of our control decades ago, this language that we yearn for so much isn't intrinsic; nevertheless we are grateful it survived.
jade
2024-02-20 12:55:41 +0000 UTCLOVE this reaction! Love revisitng this fantastic project with you. Unreal Unearth is battling it out with D-Day for AOTY in my heart. You're so right - when you listen to projects like this, it's so clear that the Grammys have no idea about the beautiful music that exists in this world.
Alix Drifty
2024-02-20 06:58:40 +0000 UTCoh man i've been HOPING for this one for awhile!! This album fully rewrote my DNA and even now months later i'm still fathoming these songs. Can confirm, these live are unreal (cannot stress enough how good the show live is if you can make it happen) and Francesca in the car does, in fact, hit real good - bonus points if you can find a thunderstorm to drive in while blasting it on some back roads. Also Eat Your Young came out wayyy before the album did and then a couple EPs dropped with a couple of the songs (including Through Me (The Flood) that didn't make the full album that haunts me to this day, it's so good) so it has a lot more streams than the others probably because of that. Literally never apologize for doing a dive into a song before/during/after a song - we're all behind the screens wanting the people listing for the first time to also know the stuff we know/think!!!!! There's just something that gets me about going from "put me back in it" to "i am never going back again" and the entirety of going through the entire album of pain and loss and still getting hit with "do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness love I still carry for you?" like, sir???? what do you mean??? and trying to fathom the being unknown is just. like yeah sure i *am* good on my own but to be unknown? to not have that person that knew my soul and being the way i thought they did? to be unknown now that they are no longer there? ughhhhh that makes me want to just go feral. anyways, this was a journey, i'm so so happy you did this one, it was like listening for the first time again and i got to fathom a couple songs in a new light!
Marisa Ford
2024-02-20 05:42:06 +0000 UTCI’m only halfway through, but I gotta stop to tell you about Son of Nyx! Charon, who ferries souls across the river Styx into the underworld, is a son of Nyx. But it’s a play on words - a friend of Hozier’s lost his father and put together a piano piece in his grief and sent it to Hozier. It’s featured in the song. Hozier’s friend’s father was named Nick - his friend is a Son of Nick’s.
Ellis Hale
2024-02-20 04:51:19 +0000 UTCI loved seeing your reaction to To Someone From A Warm Climate because I think everyone is just so confused the first time we listen but it’s just so beautiful. It’s my personal favorite song the album. I went to his concert in September and he described “Uiscefhuaraithe” as a word in the Irish language that doesn’t have a direct translation to English, but was explained to him as meaning the feeling your body gets when it’s cold, but it knows that that coldness has come from water. He gave the example of being in a dark, cold cave and if you were to touch the wall of the cave, you’d know that it was cold but also that it had become cold through the action of water, which I think is a pretty cool concept to slip into the song. I take the meaning of the song to be that there are things that nobody teaches you when you grow up a certain way (for example, in a warm climate you don’t learn how to quickly warm your own bed before sleeping— and anyone from a cold place knows that feeling of climbing in a cold bed and moving your legs to try to warm it as quickly as possible), but for him and whoever the song references, love was something that didn’t need to be taught, it came naturally to them. that’s my two cents haha
Elise Herzog
2024-02-20 03:48:20 +0000 UTCThe magic of this album is every song is so deep and rich in meaning, but even a casual listener feels moved. The lyrics operate on so many levels. Every song feels deeply relatable while still tying together the themes of Dante’s Inferno. (If you want to learn more about how that, I recommend this video that goes through all the songs in relation to the circles of hell: https://youtu.be/UOdcdno0Uu8?si=KbX_yXPBW0d08aBs). The album also references Greek mythology as well as Irish literature (De Selby is a character in Flann O’Brian’s The Third Policeman). This album is 100% my AOTY (actually might be my number one album of all time). And I can confirm that it is AMAZING live. I saw his show in October (and I got tickets to see him again in April) and it was INCREDIBLE. Not just the music (which is transcendent) but the light show he puts on during it takes you to a whole other plane of existence.
Sav Miller
2024-02-20 03:39:26 +0000 UTCFeeding the hungry 🥹🙏🏼🙏🏼 bless
Kristen Vogel
2024-02-20 02:46:47 +0000 UTCI have never clicked on something so fast! I’m SO excited to see your reaction to this masterpiece. I feel like every time I listen I find something new in one of the tracks and it’s such a beautiful experience! Hozier’s work is just incredible and I’m so glad to see you dive in deeper!
Elise Herzog
2024-02-20 02:13:11 +0000 UTCYES so excited to see your thoughts on this!! Hozier honestly never disappoints
cara
2024-02-20 01:45:03 +0000 UTCOkay omg, it's almost 11pm, I'm still any uni and I was desperately planning to go to sleep earlier tonight, but I need to see this once I get home I'm too excited !!!
Aninha Silva
2024-02-20 01:40:12 +0000 UTCI have never clicked so fast!! I am SO excited to watch this. This album is so fucking beautiful
Maryn Levi
2024-02-20 01:39:53 +0000 UTCYAAAY
Bailey Gennings
2024-02-20 01:39:26 +0000 UTC
