Hozier - Unreal Unearth

Unreal Unearth is the third studio album by Irish musician and singer-songwriter Hozier, released in August 2023 via Rubyworks and Columbia Records in the US and Island Records in the UK.

The last decade has brought both public and critical acclaim. Multi-Platinum album sales, Platinum singles, awards including a GRAMMY-nomination, film and video game soundtracks and countless sold-out live shows all over the world. But as Hozier prepares to release his third album –‘Unreal Unearth’ – his passion for his art is undimmed, and his curiosity about our world – and all that is good and bad about it – remains undiminished.

Hozier wrote the album during the COVID-19 pandemic and stated it was his way of "making sense of the experience of the last two years". It was inspired by Dante's Inferno, which he began reading at the time; he framed the album around Dante's concept of the nine circles of Hell. He called the album "quite eclectic" and stated that there is "something of a retrospective in what the sounds lean into".

The album features Hozier writing and singing lyrics in the Irish language for the first time. In an interview with The Irish Times, he said "there's so much that cannot be expressed outside of that language, that language can express that we're unaware of".

This double album 2LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves, pressed in the US via Rubyworks and Columbia Records.