Hozier announces new EP ‘Unaired’, coming next week
Hozier has announced a new EP called ‘Unaired’ – you can find all the information below.
The Irish singer-songwriter is due to release the collection next Friday (August 16), following on from this year’s ‘Unheard’. Pre-save/pre-add it here.
‘Unaired’ will feature the upcoming song ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, which Hozier debuted recently during his headline set at Lollapalooza 2024.
He has since shared a snippet of the studio version of the track on TikTok – check out the clips here:
@hozierofficial NOBODY’S SOLDIER. COMING SOON
@hozierofficial Replying to @caiiti09 Delighted to officially announce the new EP ‘Unaired’ is out on August 16th! You can pre-save now (link in bio). Thank you
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The announcement comes after Hozier previewed another new song, ‘July’, on social media last month.
Hozier’s four-track ‘Unheard’ EP followed his 2023 studio album ‘Unreal Unearth’, which earned the artist his first-ever UK Number One LP.
In a four-star review of the record, NME wrote: “Hozier not only navigates different genres on ‘Unreal Unearth,’ but chooses between moments of sparseness, like the minimalist ‘To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe)’ while also making space for expansive tracks.”
It continued: “Hozier’s vocal abilities are on full display across ‘Unreal Unearth,’ but much like the album’s instrumentals, it’s his understanding of when to give more understated performances, as on gentle ‘I, Carrion (Icarian)’ or to go full-force, like on the end of pared-back ‘Unknown/Nth’, that make the songs triumph.”
Speaking to NME last summer, Hozier reflected on the current political and social climate across the globe, and stated that he felt the LGBTQ+ community were being targeted as scapegoats.
His Lollapalooza 2024 show last week also saw him call for a ceasefire in Gaza ahead of playing ‘Nobody’s Soldier’.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter where you come from,” Hozier said. “It doesn’t matter if you are an Israeli citizen or Palestinian citizen – you wouldn’t want to see any human being be subject to the kind of terror we have been witnessing.”
In other news, Hozier covered The Band‘s song ‘The Weight’ with Mavis Staples, Joan Baez and more at the Newport Folk Festival last month.
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