r/Hozier • u/AdNo2939 • 8d ago

Hozier genre

It's interesting how people seem to universally refer to Hozier as "folk" when he hasn't really made much folk music and most of his music is pop soul.

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u/DontDreamItsOver3 8d ago

Universally? If you read reviews of each of his albums, folk comes up but so do many many other words. What makes you say he’s universally referred to as folk?

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u/Strezzi_Deprezzi 7d ago

A lot of folk people gravitate towards him; he's often in similar categorizing genres as folk people (e.g., collabbing with Mumford & Sons, Noah Kahan, hosting people like Gigi Perez and Madeline Cunningham for his openers), also the general title of Forest Daddy and all of the earthy artistic undertones he embraces/gets associated with

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u/DontDreamItsOver3 7d ago

I think folk people gravitating to him makes sense. I don’t think most of his music sounds like what I think of when I think of folk (it’s a pretty small % to my ears), but that’s just how I hear his music. I also don’t see Gigi Perez or Madison Cunningham as folk at all. I probably see Allison Russell more as folk than I do Madison Cunningham. And I adore all 3 artists (I love Allison Russell the most, then Madison C. Gigi Perez’s music is newest to me.)