Hozier- HozierLabel: Columbia Released 10 7 14 LP includes full album on CD Its not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. 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 youve chanced upon something special. And so it is with 24 year old Andrew Hozier Byrne, an

as they had been on the verge of breaking up

Fanfare And Prologue

The Lurkers had no schtick

The songs and performances evoke a band that never stopped working and writing together

finds WHITMER: age thirty

Eagle Birds

social and personal issues in their music

Nothing But the Stars

Mercilessly

Rambozo the Clown

and what on earth this band of insurgents is doing signing an Epic Records contract with L

With track titles like "Nautical Depth"