Irish musician Hozier’s recent and unexpected EP release, ‘Unheard’, has been taking over the internet as fans rush to listen to the songs that did not make the cut on his ‘Unreal Unearth’ album in 2023.
Hozier has noted that he started reading Dante’s Inferno during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and that he framed ‘Unreal Unearth’ around the themes of the novel and the concept of the nine circles of Hell. It is a retrospective look on society, his relationships, and the self. Hozier has provided that these unheard songs “might’ve made it to the circles of gluttony, limbo, violence, and the outward ‘ascent’ respectively” had they been on the original 2023 album.