No Better Heart-Tugger Than Hozier

Hozier can tug heart strings unlike anyone working the music scene today. He reaches you in places that likely haven't been touched in ages. Folks in the balcony read his messages loud and clear. This time love stands out as the clear message. It gets plucked straight from the soundtrack to The Legend of Tarzan. You can clearly tell "Better Love" was a no expense spared production from Hozier's first piano note to the final chord. Hozier understands how to get in a zone once he has occupied it. Look at his face in the video. Nothing but determination as far as the ear can hear. The sound he's forging is his and his alone. Of course it helps to be guided by crisp jungle snippets from the movie itself to get us all into the same primal instinct. How the piano glides up scale at precisely the right juncture, the way the drums ante up this song's overall fire, how Hozier serves as mainly the gatekeeper through which the magic can unfold before us. It justifiably cements Hozier's reputation aa a leading concert hall get. "Better Love" likely will have the doubters who question whether The Legend of Tarzan deserves a robust viewing taking back their consternation in a fraction of a second. On the lyric side passion drips everywhere. Couched in brutish imagery but passion laden all the same. Hozier's "blind to the purpose of the brute divine". He thrills in knowing how alone and unknown he and his beloved really are. Grand longing gets confessed. But at the heart there's no better love loving him than she. My favorite line has to be "Like fire weeping from a cedar tree know that my love would burn with me. We'll live eternally. Such bold promises coming from mortal man. No doubt he's got conviction on his side and that counts for an awful lot on this planet. A fun place to hear "Better Love" blaring would be spinning around under the Zilker Park Christmas tree. Lights spinning. Giddy dizziness mounting. Besides which the birth of Jesus and Hozier were made to go hand in hand. Listen to "Take Me To Church" and tell me you're not compelled to double over sobbing, confessing to things you were never even guilty of doing in the first place. "Better Love" can make you realize that, despite society's overblown imagery of immaculate pair-ups, imperfect love does have its own special rewards for any who seek to learn what they are. As you might expect from a Tarzan movie soundtrack cut "Better Love" shuffles along at a galloping pace. That leaves Hozier to merely strut his convincingly facade busting stuff. After that's done you'll be putty for the man to mold in whatever way he chooses. Not all the prime summer movie real estate has been converted to millions invested versus millions earned back. A new Tarzan's on the prowl. There's no better opportunity to explore Hozier's "Better Love". Who knows...maybe you'll strut a little taller in the saddle upon repeated listening. Hozier found his mark in blazing record time and a letdown doesn't appear imminent anytime soon. Too many more tracks like this and years from now we may be talking about the legend of Hozier. Here's to what his future has in store.