''Eat Your Young'' is the sixth

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(EP) by Irish singer-songwriter

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. The three-track collection was released on 17 March 2023 through

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, to celebrate the singer's birthday,

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, the ten-year anniversary of his debut, and to tease his then-upcoming third studio album ''

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''. At the time of the EP's release, all three of its songs were slated to appear on ''Unreal Unearth'', though "Through Me (The Flood)" ultimately was absent from the album. Hozier performed the EP in full in a set on

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's '' World Cafe'' on 18 March 2023. The title track was released as a single the same day and debuted at number seven on the

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and number 67 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. For the latter, it became Hozier's second entry on the chart, with the first being the breakout single "

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" in 2014. "Eat Your Young" also became Hozier's third song to top the US

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charts. The title track's music video starring

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was released on 5 April 2023, followed by a video for "All Things End" on 27 April 2023.

Reception

In a review for ''Mxdwn'', Blake Michelle praised the songwriting of the EP, writing "The title track falls into the same category of '

,' in using a mix of religious and sexual imagery to create social commentary—in this case, consumption and prioritizing war profits over alleviating poverty. It turns the need to produce and consume into an almost demonic urge, fitting for a song based on the Gluttony level of hell. The following two songs stare into the abyss, and yet find comfort in the knowledge that everything is temporary."

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

– lead vocals *Craig Balmoris – drum programming *

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– background vocals organ piano strings synthesizer * Amanda Brown – background vocals *Darien Dorsey – organ *Marius Feder – synthesizer *Gregory Fletcher – background vocals *Drew Forde – viola *Roland Garcia – percussion *Peter Gonzales – drums programming *Sergiu "Rappy" Gherman – programming * Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman – bass electric guitar synthesizer *Peter Gonzales – drums programming *Nayanna Holley – background vocals *Stuart Johnson – drums , synthesizer *Charles Jones – background vocals *Daniel Krieger – guitar bass *Andrew Kwon – violin *Haesol Lee – violin *Daniel Lim – cello *Ginny Luke – violin *Lisa McCormick – french horn *Kadeem Nichols – background vocals *Stanley Randolph – drums *Aretha Scruggs – background vocals *Toni Scruggs – background vocals *Jordan Seigel – string arrangement *Fletcher Sheridan – background vocals *David Simmonds – background vocals *SORA – cello *The Whole Soul Strings – strings *Danielle Withers – background vocals

Technical

*Hozier – vocal engineer *Wil Anspach – engineer *Matt Anthony – engineer *

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– mixing engineer *

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– mastering engineer *Sean Cook – vocal engineer *

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– mastering engineer * Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman – engineer *Peter Gonzales – recording engineer , mixing engineer *Adam Hong – mixing engineer *

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– mixing engineer *Daniel Krieger – vocal engineer *Logan Taylor – assistant recording engineer , engineer *Jordan Siegel – recording engineer

Chart performance

While the EP as a whole did not chart in any territory, all three songs charted individually.

"Eat Your Young"

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

"All Things End"

"Through Me (The Flood)"

References

{{Hozier 2023 EPs Hozier (musician) EPs Rubyworks Records albums Works based on Inferno (Dante) Albums produced by Jeff Gitelman