If you've lived your whole life before the First Light, you'd better check out Hozier's latest LP, Unreal Unearth! James & Connor are reviewing the "Unaired" edition of the album, with seven bonus tracks including Too Sweet, his biggest hit since Take Me To Church! This concept album inspired by Dante's Inferno takes us down circle by circle, vice by vice, so seamlessly that you'll forget you're in the middle of the descent. Through moving songs like Francesca, All Things End, Butchered Tongue, and Eat Your Young, Hozier explores our relationship to darkness, power, and human connection through his well-sifted lyrics and unique creative lens.

We'll dig into Hozier's Irish roots, from a small hometown to the country's national choir, and discover his rise from starving artist to folk pop sensation. We refamiliarize ourselves with the mythology behind the Divine Comedy, reminisce on the popularity of Take Me To Church, and gear up for Thanksgiving before The Mixtaper brings us his Hoziest facts to date! Twitter stalkers, lead pants, and a well full of digestive biscuits (for the land) await us in Fact Or Spin! Then we'll discuss the whopping 16-track record and its accompanying EPs in their entirety! Will this hellish descent be able to rise above the competition?

Let us know which EP songs you think should have made the album! Did we get close on pronouncing "uiscefhuaraithe?" If this podcast felt like Hozier's yell, let us know in the comments and on social media.. and be sure to follow along through the holiday season! Happy Thanksgiving!

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0:00 Intro

4:30 About Hozier

13:04 About Unreal Unearth

18:13 Podcast Segment That Feels Like Hozier's Yell

19:10 Awards & Accolades

21:22 Fact Or Spin

22:50 His Fans Track Him

27:22 He Nearly Drowned

31:22 He's Immortal

34:43 He Offered Biscuits To Faeries

43:04 Album Art

44:30 Nobody's Soldier

46:22 July

48:53 That You Are

51:18 Too Sweet

55:44 Wildflower And Barley (feat. Allison Russell)

59:09 Empire Now

1:01:00 Fare Well

1:02:34 De Selby (Part 1)

1:04:55 De Selby (Part 2)

1:08:09 First Time

1:10:49 Francesca

1:13:43 I, Carrion (Icarian)

1:16:59 Eat Your Young

1:20:19 Damage Gets Done (feat. Brandi Carlile)

1:22:56 Who We Are

1:26:34 Son Of Nyx

1:28:26 All Things End

1:30:22 To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe)

1:33:44 Butchered Tongue

1:36:05 Anything But

1:38:41 Abstract (Psychopomp)

1:40:50 Unknown / Nth

1:42:52 First Light

1:45:05 Final Spin

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