Nobody’s Soldier, from Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s excellent Unaired EP, pairs his expressive howl with a rumbling blues guitar line
Hozier’s new single is Nobody’s Soldier. Could it be a Too Sweet-style juggernaut? We take a first listen
Then, in March this year, he put out the Unheard EP, cut from the same recording sessions and fronted by the rootsy juggernaut Too Sweet, a laid-back epic that took a life of its own when it. Now he rounds off a busy summer on the road with an excellent new three-track EP, Unaired, again taken from the Unreal Unearth recordings and opening with the shiver-inducing stomper Nobody’s Soldier.
It’s a gripping cacophony that takes up the themes in Unreal Unearth, which portrayed nature as a brooding, unknowable force at the horizons of human understanding. “If I tell you this is drowning,” he sings ominously, “you’ll tell me I’m walking on water”.First-time visitors to Ireland: ‘Some people have saved up all their lives to come here’
The singer has explained that the song is a gut response to the horrors unfolding across the world – wars, intolerance, social-media insanity. These are subjects he has talked about on the road, where he has finished performances with a call for a ceasefire in Gaza – a money-where-your-mouth-is gesture that many artists at his level refuse to take .
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