Hozier - From Eden
I always have the impulse to start writing a novel during week 10. Maybe that's because I've spent the majority of the term writing literary analyses and crying my eyes out over the insane amount of reading I have to do... I digress. I really need to write something creative to balance out all of the madness that has been happening lately. But I can't start that until I've written the last of my final essays (about 20 pages to go!!).
Anyway, here's some new music for the week. Hozier is an Irish musician with a really chill, folksy-gospel-blues-soul vibe to his music. He uses lots of religious metaphors, something I always find fascinating in any genre. Take Me To Church is one of my current favourites from his EP. He uses the female pronoun "she/her" to represent a kind of saviour, which is a really interesting critique of the romantic. Here's a quote from a recent interview:
“I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.”
Hot dang. Death and rebirth. So deep. His lyrics are pretty dark, but I really dig the sound. Listen! In the meantime, I've got some serious academic writing to do. I'll be back when the storm blows over...
Hozier - Angel of Small Death
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