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We have just watched Hozier on BBC 2's Later with Jools Holland . His debut, eponymous album was released on 6th October 2014 through Rubyworks/Island Records. It was preceded by a new single, Take Me To Church Live Dates Wednesday 12th November – Manchester, Ritz Sunday 16th November – Glasgow, O2 ABC Saturday 31st January – London, Shepherd’s Bush Tracklisting : Take Me To Church/Angel Of Small Death And The Codeine Scene/Jackie And Wilson/Someone New/To Be Alone/From Eden/In A Week (Feat. Karen Cowley)/Sedated/work Song/Like Real People Do/It Will Come Back/Foreigner’s God/Cherry Wine http://hozier.com/ Find Tickets  Hozier (Deluxe Version) - Hozier available on iTunes Click here for more information about Hozier and the Album 

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Hozier releases his debut, eponymous album on 6th October 2014 through Rubyworks/Island Records. It is preceded by a new single, Take Me To Church, on the 15th September 2014. It is only when you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry that you realise just what you are missing out on the rest of the time. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure you’ve chanced upon something pretty special. And so it is with Andrew Hozier-Byrne, a County Wicklow singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who goes by the name of Hozier, and whose way with words is a blessing (for us) as much as his susceptibility to romance, and romantic dreaming, sounds like a curse (for him). The vividness of his imagery speaks of a soul in thrall to, and beset by, intense and sometimes ungovernable emotions. Well, Ame