#tHE WHOLE ALBUM IS UNREAL

[eldritchsmokeshow]

Yes I'm so normal after listening to Ethel Cain's Preachers Daughter album I'm so glad you asked ahaha*is visibly shaking, sobbing and covered in blood*

[destinyandcoins]

the transition from de selby (part 1) to de selby (part 2)

[carmen-berzattos]

There's something at the tip of my tongue about the parallels between Jackie and Wilson and Who We Are

How the narrator of Jackie and Wilson wants to run away with a woman that he's carved out of his imagination based on a brief interaction. How they would try the world, but good god it wasn't for them. So they run away from it into a fantasy world where they live by their own rules.

And then comes the narrator of Who We Are, who dreamt his whole life of finding someone who would hold him like water or like a knife, only to find that running away from the world will only get them so far, since "the hardest part is who we are". And only to find out that the "phantom life" he's fantasized about is actually just that: a phantom. And its absence sharpens like a knife

[decarath-s]

Listen ofc all of the Unreal Unearth songs are amazing because it's Hozier we're talking about but holy fuck-

Personally the song in this album that smacked me across the face at first was Abstract (Psychopomp), and I can't believe more people are not going feral over it like I am, look-

H U H

I saw you perform this ultimately fruitless yet incredibly significant, humane and selfless act of kindness. You put your own life at risk for something others would have considered "too small". I saw you run into moving traffic, stain your own hands, just to offer a little comfort to this poor animal in its dying moments. I was terrified, I knew I had no choice but to love you.

[ndcgalitzine]

suddenly First Light starts playing and you realize the album is over already and your heart is aching because you never want it to end

[untimelyambition]

hozier knew what he was doing with those three bars of acoustic guitar at the end of first light, something about it catches in your chest it’s such a perfect way to end the album

[spineless-lobster]

Hozier straight up saw thanzag and said “they need a soundtrack” and wrote unreal unearth

[vincentsleftear]

feel like people don’t give Hozier enough credit for inventing love with his DEBUT album

[cokoweee]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[seehowtishines]

wearing noise canceling headphones aren't enough, i need the sound waves engraved on my brain

[cadriox]

DracoEd broke into my house one day and made their bed here ever since

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[eyefisch]

Hozier’s done it again with this album guys. So many fanfics are about to be written with these lyrics, you have no idea

[fawnforevergone]

hozier referencing 'inferno' part 3 : 'unknown / nth'

although this second verse is specifically referencing the scene of lucifer chewing on judas, i found some cool referencing in the scene where count ugolino is chewing on the skull of archbishop ruggieri (more on that with part 4 of this lil' series). the part that most caught my eye was the "caught between my teeth" which mirrors one of the most vivid pieces of imagery in 'unreal unearth' - hozier's lover chewing on his heart.

also, an extra lil' extract - the scene that verse two of 'unknown / nth' is based on:

[wordswhisperinthedark]

K.WILL WE TRUSTED YOU😭😭😭

[be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie]

derek nurse listens to hozier. thats it thats the whole thought

[arson-09]

Who We Are came on the shuffle and it felt like a knife to the chest