Hozier Wasteland Baby!

Multi-platinum singer songwriter Hozier will release new album, Wasteland, Baby! March 1st on Island Records.

Hozier first rose to prominence following the release of his globally successful, triple platinum single Take Me To Church. The track was nominated for Song Of The Year at the 2015 Grammy Awards, won Song Of The Year at the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, won Song Of The Year at the 2015 BBC Music Awards and won Top Rock Song at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, where Hozier also wonTop Rock Artist. Take Me To Church has sold 2.23 million copies in the UK to date. Hozier also saw great success with Someone New, which went gold and Cherry Wine and From Eden both being certified silver

Wasteland, Baby! is the follow up to Hoziers critically acclaimed self titled debut album, which has now amassed over 2.5 billion streams while his total and the album has sold over 850 thousand copies in the UK, going platinum in the process, while the record has sold 4 million copies worldwide. Hozier received a nomination for Best International Male; at the 2015 Brit Awards.

The album follows Hoziers recent Nina Cried Power EP. The EP, which features Multi-Grammy award winning artist and performer Mavis Staples and instrumentation by renowned Grammy Life Time Achievement Award recipient Booker T. Jones, has been streamed over 26 million times since its release in September last year. The title track of the EP also opens Wasteland, Baby! and has already proved incredibly successful for Hozier. Barack Obama included the song in his favourite songs of 2018 playlist;