Wasteland, Baby! by Hozier

Wasteland, Baby!, Hozier's second album, arrived on Rubyworks Records on 1 March 2019, his first full-length since the 2014 debut that made his name. The Irish singer folds in "Nina Cried Power" and "Shrike" from the previous year's Nina Cried Power EP, alongside the single "Movement", and the whole thing moves at a slow, smoldering soul simmer, with the folk and blues that run through all his work never far from the surface.

He's still a songwriter who reaches for religious and literary imagery and isn't shy about politics, and the arrangements give those big ideas room to breathe. It debuted at number one on both the Irish Albums Chart and the Billboard 200, later went gold in the US, and sent him out on a North American tour that spring and across Europe from late summer into the fall.

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