Hozier: Alternative Music

Hozier is actually my all time favorite Alternative artists out of all of them. Most artists only have a few songs that I actually like. With Hozier, I haven't seen or listened to a song yet that I haven't completely fallen in love with. The way he sings is just amazing and makes every song sound phenomenal and owns it.

Andrew Hozier-Byrne was born on March 7th 1990, is an Irish  musician from Bray County Wicklow. in2013 he released his deput EP Take Me to Church and then his second EP From Eden. At first when I started listening to Hozier, it was even before he became famous, but just like everyone else with popular artists, I listened to his more known songs before exploring  his other work.

The first song I heard Take me to Church really made me think about his music and that he really sings how he feels and makes his listeners really here what he is singing. When you listen to the song you first think he is just talking solely about his religion, but when you really take the time to understand what he is talking about, you realize that he is actually talking about the "cleansing" feeling of having sex. I also think there is a metaphor when he says "take me to church" he is really saying that he rejects the ideas of most Christian type churchs and their beliefs on sex and homosexuality. When Hozier writes his music, he really thinks about the lyrics he writes and makes sure it really has a meaning and purpose. This is one of the reasons why he is a musical genius and why I like his music so much.

When I started discovering some of his other music he releases in his albums, I soon found a song that instantly became pretty much my favorite song of all time. His opening song from his second album called From Eden just gives me shivers and goose bumps every time I listen to it. Here are some of the lyrics from it:

Babe, there's something tragic about you
Something so magic about you
Don't you agree?

Babe, there's something lonesome about you
Something so wholesome about you
Get closer to me

I slithered here from Eden just to hide outside your door

I think that this song is pretty much talking about something I think we all can relate to at one point or another, and that is the infatuation of a certain person that you want to be with and hold and love. It especially shows that when he says, "get closer to me".  And Hozier talks about how sometimes he, and other people believe that they just aren't good enough for that person when he says the line "I slithered here from Eden just to hide outside your door". Since "Eden" is the garden from which Adam and Eve ate from the sacred evil tree and he says he "slithered" because he's comparing himself to the decieving snake hiding outside her door just to be close to her.