Hozier has confirmed that he’ll perform a set at Glastonbury Festival today (June 23), as he releases his new single ‘Unknown / Nth’.The Irish soloist wrote in a Tweet that he is “thrilled” to be playing the festival’s Woodsies stage (FKA John Peel Stage) tonight at 7.30pm BST.With the news comes the release of ‘Unknown / Nth’, a glacial new song that features on the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album ‘Unreal Unearth’.Speaking about the track, Hozier said: “The title comes from the expression of an unknown but large number, i.e. ‘Nth’.
The song reflects on having your heartbroken by someone you trusted. You think you learned, and it happens again.“It also recalls ‘Ninth’ or the 9th circle [in Dante’s Inferno] of treachery.
The song throws away the old premise of angelhood. None of us are angels. We are all going to break someone else’s heart or hurt another person.
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