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The November Album of the Month is Unreal Unearth by Hozier
“Unreal Unearth” is the third studio album by Irish musician Hozier, released on August 18, 2023. The album includes the singles “Eat Your Young” and “Francesca,” as well as “All Things End.” Hozier will tour Ireland, the UK, North America, Australia, and New Zealand from June 2023 to November 2024 to promote the album. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and debuted at number one on the Irish and UK charts.
Hozier wrote the album during the COVID-19 pandemic. He wanted to make sense of the experiences from those two years. He drew inspiration from Dante’s “Inferno,” which he was reading at the time, and organized the album around the nine circles of Hell. Additionally, Hozier includes ideas from Flann O’Brien’s novel “The Third Policeman.”
Hozier described the album as “quite eclectic” and noted that it has a “retrospective” feel. He also mentioned that the three songs from the “Eat Your Young” EP do not represent the whole album.
Overall, “Unreal Unearth” represents a journey through Dante’s nine circles of Hell, with each song exploring a specific “universal theme” or feeling.
You can check out this album and a lot of other audio “gems” at the Record Cellar.