thank you shuffle gods because I will never shut up about this band!!!
hi hello do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Friday Pilots Club and how amazing they are and then maybe we go listen to their debut album entitled 'Nowhere' together?
but for real, if anyone reading this wants to listen to the full album and talk about it afterwards, it would be so cool and i will treasure you and put pretty flowers in your hair 🥺👉👈
The time has come for me to yap about Hymn To Virgil from Hozier's Unreal Unearth: Unending
12/06/2024
THE PRODUCTION?!!?! I tip my hat to the incredibly talented producers Jeff Gitty, Bekon, and Some Fuckin Guy™ named Andrew idk
I think they did an incredible job balancing out the tasteful use of vocal effects and letting his natural voice soar! mans was BELTING. also the runs?? he is a runner he is a track star
I am in love with the off kilter flow he gets into during the verses!!! he doesn't do that very often but man oh man, does he smash it out of the park
THE MASSIVE WAVE OF THE CHOIR VOCALS. opening the song with this modulated choir- it immediately ropes you in. drown me in that ethereal sea of gorgeous sounds please and thank you. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS- it was bugging me that the intro sounded familiar but I couldn't remember what -> IT'S LIKE THE INTRO FOR Through Me (The Flood)!!!
the synths?? FORGIVE HIM FATHER FOR HE HAS SYNTH!!
the keys are so gentle yet haunting. there is no better way I can describe it other than it is HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL.
the lyrics are insane but I mean, it's Hozier. when has the lyrics been NOT heartbreaking, soul crushing, breathtaking, yearning levels of insane?
"If I held in my hands everything gold could buy
I'd still not have a thing worth giving you
You tell me the sun is shining in paradise
And I have to watch your lips turn blue
I would burn the world to bring some heat to you"
as for the part that I absolutely lost my mind to last night, you ask? around the 14 second mark, it happens for just one second- maybe even half a second- but it's the part where the first vocal run is introduced. it rises in a crescendo OR SO YOU THINK, because it doesn't even GET to finish! it gets cut off by the bass and drums!!! and then the first verse starts!!! That's like some Labrinth type of production I AM OBSESSED it's such a small detail that could easily be overlooked, but to me that part was an instant stank face moment I squealed and startled my cats. The way it starts off quiet and gradually gets louder only for it be cut off... And this all happens in the span of one (1) second... I immediately felt the depression leaving my body.
I would love to see this song be used in a movie because it is just too damn epic, it is nothing short of cinematic. Hymn To Virgil is the type of song that needs to be played loud. thems the rules.
Have you heard Rio by G Frequency yet? If you hadn’t heard Hozier did a side quest and is featured on a funky hip hop track. It apparently came out a week or two ago and he hasn’t said anything to promote it.
It has a 90’s/early 2000’s Hip Hop vibe, and I think they used his voice well with the production.
I did in fact know about this and it was (still is) ON REPEAT!!
It made me so happy upon discovering this track because I grew up on hiphop, amongst many other genre of music. But especially around my early teen years, that was the height of me being passionate about all things hiphop, and it's also when Take Me To Church came out and I was so ecstatic to have found Hozier.
So the fact that its been 10yrs now and my worlds are colliding to bring together this fucking amazing track?!? I am OVER THE MOON. This genuinely made me so incredibly happy!!!
I've yet to listen to the rest of G Frequency's discography but I did listen to this album, Soul Focus, and holy smokes, it is right up my alley of funk and groove and rap amalgamated into one incredible record.
ANYWAY! If anybody reading this hasn't done so yet, please do yourself a favor and give it a listen
