The Irish singer-songwriter is trying to be too many things and in the overstuffed morass it fails to really evoke anything
poet’s most famous work, sort of, as a loose theme – but also not, because the first two songs are nothing to do with it and are instead a reference to another literary work . It seems exhausting before we even press play.
The songs skip between folky and funky , Hozier presenting sweet and pleasant falsetto one moment then yelling-into-the-void theatrics the next. “Eat Your Young” is kind of sultry and playful despite being a song about the endless gluttony of the rich and the crumbs the rest of us survive on. “Who We Are” is classic Hozier: big, loud and failing entirely to recapture the satirical majesty of his breakout hit “Take Me to Church”.
Still, we dig onwards, from the dull “To Someone from a Warm Climate”, to the bizarrely garbled “Anything But”, which sounds like someone put “Graceland” through a blender.What is frustrating is that, given space, many of the songs would shine – the Brandi Carlile duet “Damage Gets Done” is a big, driving song that is full of satisfying harmonies over a fun, high-school riff, for example – and Hozier is undoubtedly a good singer.
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