There is no blues music without one of the most horrendous atrocities of human trafficking in the last few centuries. There is absolutely no rock and roll without blues music. A lot of my folk influences would be coming from Ireland.

From there, I just fell in love with the music coming out of black America. My first introduction to music Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, the music that my dad used to play in the house. Naming your project Nina Cried Power is a bold way to show your appreciation for American rock. It steered me into the position of well, fuck it, I want to write songs that are exciting and fun to play. After touring the first album I was super fortunate to be able to tour to that extent. I spent two years on the road with a very, very intense schedule, and it’s very, very hard to write and certainly produce and record music while on the road. I wanted the songs to be enjoyable to perform and exciting to sing and exciting to perform live as well, too. There is a certain sort of energy I wanted to capture across a lot of the songs. A lot of the demos being made, it was just screaming into a microphone until late in the night. Maybe part of it is just living alone in the countryside and having the space and freedom and no neighbors within earshot. Nina Cried Power is the loudest and hardest you’ve screamed on a project. A post shared by Andrew Hozier Byrne on at 2:34am PDT This collection of songs is an example of what I’ve been working on in the last while and will be a small taste of what is to be expected from the upcoming album. I’m thrilled to release the Nina Cried Power EP on September 6th. (This conversation has been lightly edited for cohesion and brevity.) during the Civil Rights Movement and more. Some of them are optimistic some of them are terrified some of them are really looking forward to just burning within it.”īelow, Hozier digs into his mission with Nina Cried Power, the message of its rousing single, working with artists who marched alongside Dr. Every song is standing around the same awful bonfire. “That’s how I kind of picture it in my head. “ is best looked at as a little bit of a sampler, four corners of the world the album populates,” he explains. Jones, who contributes his organ-playing both to “Nina Cried Power” and other songs peppering the EP and forthcoming album. The title track of the former, which is also the lead single, is inspired by the legacies of artists like Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Billie Holliday, James Brown and Mavis Staples - who lends her vocals to the song - and “crediting the legacy of protest.” It’s a testament to his love of American rock and roll, a celebration of its gospel and R&B roots with musicians like Staples and Booker T. 6, Hozier returns with his new EP, Nina Cried Power, with a full-length album to follow in 2019.

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