Hozier singing trad tunes on TikTok is what we needed today

Hozier joined the video-sharing app yesterday and has amassed 340k followers on his verified account

Hozier has joined TikTok

It has been a grim week for news, so when we opened TikTok and saw Andrew Hozier-Byrne gently humming an old song about whiskey, it was exactly the salve we didn’t know we needed.

With the one-minute clip being viewed 2.5m times in less than a day, we’re clearly not the only ones who have it on repeat.