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Eat Your Young EP - Hozier

    March 17, 2023 - Hozier, world renowned singer-songwriter from Ireland, released an extended play entitled EAT YOUR YOUNG and announced a global tour.

    The new EP is a supposed Birthday gift to fans - as Hozier's Birthday was on March 17. He said it was an "added joy" to release the three-track record on his special day, but releasing music itself is already a gift. Along with the singer's Birthday, March 17 was also St. Patrick's Day - a special day to Hozier's Irish heritage. 

    The entire album UNREAL UNEARTH will be out sometime in the late summer months. Following the release, Hozier is scheduled to go on tour starting in the United Kingdom on June 25 and will make his way to the United States on September 9. Madison Cunningham will join him on all legs of the tour as the opener. 

    EAT YOUR YOUNG is a soulful EP with a highly symphonic background. Although many of his melodies are unchanging and consistent throughout his mainly three-minute-thirty-second songs, Hozier causes listeners to dig deeper into his provoking lyrics. 

    The extended play is inspired by "Dante's Inferno," a poem written by Dante Alighieri in 1320. The poem reflects on Dante's journey through the "9 Circles of Hell." Hozier focused in on two of the circles, gluttony and heresy, in the title-track Eat Your Young and All Things End.

    Eat Your Young is written from the prospective of an unreliable narrator who overindulges in themselves and elevates himself above others through material possessions or status. All Things End is about a breakup and how heretical they can feel at the time. The singer-songwriter is usually not a fan of "happily ever after," but to many All Things End is a positive outlook on a breakup song.

    Lastly, Through Me (The Flood) is about a reflection on loss, and specifically inspired by the pandemic as he wrote it during the middle months of 2020. The Roman poet Ovid and his "Metamorphosis" collection caused Hozier to think a lot about change and how it affects people. 

     Continuing with his religious overtones, after inspection one can see how the entire EAT YOUR YOUNG extended play is written by the same lyricist as Take Me to Church back in 2010. 

    Eat Your Young can seem more radio-like, but the constant chord progression we know and love from Hozier is there. His hearty belt can be heard in All Things End while Eat Your Young may be harder for some listeners to understand his word-choice. 

    Hozier discarded a lot of his pandemic work because he said it seemed too "woe is me" and "frivolous." All Things End was one of the few songs to survive but Eat Your Young and Through Me (The Flood) were written more recently.

    This is Hozier's first extended play since his sophomore album WASTELAND BABY way back in 2019. He hopes that it resonates with fans, but the lyrics are definitely truthful to himself and what he has gone through over the past couple of years.


    Andrew Hozier-Byrne (@hozier) | Instagram

    You can purchase tour tickets, listen to his music, sign up for presales and buy merch here.





April 17, 2023

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