“Too Sweet” by Hozier

"Too Sweet" was the surprise opener of Unheard, the 2024 EP Hozier built from four songs that didn't make it onto his third album, Unreal Unearth, and he trailed it on TikTok with a clip of himself sketching a skeleton. He said the leftovers still belonged to that album's world of gluttony, limbo and violence, and this one has a wicked grin about it: a slinky, soulful groove, a sly vocal that slides and struts, the whole thing pitched between a come-on and a shrug.

Hozier co-produced it with Bēkon, Chakra, Sergiu Gherman and Peter Gonzales, with Andrew Scheps on the mix. Then it took over. It topped the charts in 14 countries, among them Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, and finished 2024 as the fifth best-selling single in Britain.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.