Muffled screams from Kiely immediately make your hair stand on end as we try to decipher the lyrics before it eventually concludes with quietened siren-sounding melodies. Is it the sound of a huge truck beeping as it reverses down the road? Is it static and reverb from guitar wails? Who can tell, except Dara Kiely, Alan Duggan, Adam Faulkner and Daniel Fox. Opening track 'The Gum' will presumably be an absolute mindf**k to try perform live, but we're itching to be in the audience. In classic GB fashion, the quartet start off Album Number Three, the brilliant Most Normal, with a kaleidoscope of bizarre sounds crashing together to somehow make a coherent level of noise. Every instrumental aspect has clearly been chosen with innate care, while his poetic lyrics convey otherworldly imagery for a moving subject.

' Her husband waits outside/A cryin' child pushes a child into the night/She was told he would come this time/Without leavin' so much as a feather behind/To enact at last the perfect plan/One more sweet boy to be butchered by hand,' the opening verse announces as soft acoustic guitar plucking and poignant strings brings his stunning words to life. The singer-songwriter dedicated to the struggle for women's rights around the world, and will be making a donation to abortion rights groups. Powerful single 'Song For Leda' was written and produced by Andrew Hozier-Byrne with production from Jennifer Decilveo. It marks Hozier's first album since 2019's Wasteland, Baby!. The acclaimed Wicklow musician has released a brand new track from his upcoming third studio album Unreal Unearth, which is expected to be released later this year.

Opening with simple piano chords, the singer-songwriter declares, ' Never felt alone 'til the late night/never felt she was my own 'til the tears dried/working on the karma but it takes time/innocence and sadness was a fine line/better savour every moment as it flies by/every minute boy.' Hozier, 'Song for Leda' 'Innocence and Sadness' strips it all back to the root. The minimal instrumentation only serves to showcase his talent further and build even more excitement for the follow up to 2019's Without Fear, which arrives on November 4. The Dubliner has dropped another cut from his forthcoming second album Sonder with an earnest love song that amplifies Kennedy's trademark raw vocal prowess.

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