Hozier Announces ‘Wasteland, Baby!’ Fifth Anniversary Vinyl Release

We’re nonetheless within the Wasteland, Baby: Hozier has introduced a particular vinyl launch of his second studio album Wasteland, Baby! to have fun the report’s fifth anniversary. While the album technically celebrates its fifth birthday on March 1, the vinyl can be launched on April 19.

Pre-order the Wasteland, Baby! fifth Anniversary Vinyl 

The vinyl package deal can be obtainable in Ultra Clear & Transparent Green discs. The printing will embody the album in all its glory on sides A-C, whereas aspect D will characteristic tracks from his Nina Cried Power EP, a surprising stay model of “Shrike” from Dublin’s Windmill Lane Studios, an acoustic model of “Be” (obtainable to take heed to in the present day), and an especially particular unheard monitor “Why Would You Be Loved” – recorded on the time of Wasteland, Baby! 

Hozier’s second album debuted atop the Billboard 200 upon its launch, making it the singer-songwriter’s first U.S. primary report. Following the discharge of his debut report and the large success of the one “Take Me To Church,” Hozier took a one-year break from his work to maneuver again to Ireland. It was throughout this time that he gathered inspiration for Wasteland, Baby!, which he wrote between 2017 and 2019. The report produced the singles “Nina Cried Power” (referring to at least one Nina Simone) that includes Mavis Staples, “Movement,” “Almost (Sweet Music),” and “Dinner & Diatribes.” 

The album reconciles apocalyptic imagery with themes of hope. Back in 2019, Hozier shared that the report is about “discovering some silver lining, one thing to hold onto, and one thing that gives you with some quantity of hope and provides you some sense of religion in folks and religion within the kindness that persons are able to…That’s what loads of the songs on the report had been making an attempt to achieve for.”

In August of final yr Hozier scored his first ever UK number one together with his third studio album Unreal Unearth. He outsold the whole UK Top 5 mixed in launch week and likewise scored the highest spot in Ireland, in addition to securing his first ever number one album within the Netherlands and prime 5 spots within the USA and Germany.

Pre-order the Wasteland, Baby! fifth Anniversary Vinyl