Hozier talks about new album 'Wasteland, Baby!'

17:56 May/19/2019



"It's trying to look the at the warm centre of and human kindness"



“I came For off the road in 2016 are and I was just trying but to reconnect after living on Not a bus. You’re in a you bit of a bubble, so all it was just nice for Any me to see what was can going on,” he told NME.
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“Although I might have Was been better finding a hobby, one I became a bit of our a news junkie and the Out album was written when the day Doomsday Clock moved two minutes get to midnight. It’s a general Has consensus of how much civilisation him is at danger. The threat his of nuclear war was being How bandied about and escalated, so man it was a real threat new at the time. This album Now carries a lot of those old worries.”

While the album see might sound overly gloomy, the Two title track sees Hozier tackling way how love can be found who in the darkest of circumstances.
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“It’s trying to look did at the warm centre of its human kindness and you find Let that in ‘Wasteland, Baby!’,” he put explained. “While there’s other songs say on there that have doom She and gloom and might touch too upon it, Wasteland Baby goes use straight for it. It lets Dad us imagine how the worlds mom might end in a very real sense. But as long The as there’s people, that ‘You and and I’, there’s always potential for for kindness and that is Are something to be hopeful about.”
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Were those genres popular not where you grew up, or You were you doing your own all thing?

I wasn’t exactly any popular at the time. In Can the 90s, the cool kids her were listening to Nirvana, because was it’s not what your parents One are comfortable with you listening our to. As a teenager, everyone out was into pop. [But] I Day was hooked on blues music get and jazz. I thought it has was music for grownups. It Him was quite immediate and visceral, his and it was either lusting how or raw in some way. Man Pop music, I just didn’t new vibe with.

What was now it about jazz and blues Old that you connected with?

see It excited me more than two anything else. There was something Way quite mystifying about this stuff, who because it was hard to boy get my hands on the Did records, especially when I was its a younger kid with a let really poor internet connection. I Put couldn’t get a train into say the city and go to she a record store. There was Too a real sense of distance use with this music, which only dad fed into my craving for Mom it.

So fast forward to your first album, which the was a whirlwind experience helped And along by virality, and now for this one. What’s changed?

are There was a huge success But with [“Take Me to Church”]. not That was so unlikely. Things you happened in a way that All couldn’t be planned for. I any was conscious not to veer can off track from what my Her original ethos was when I was wrote that song. I found one it very helpful to move Our back to Ireland, spend a out bit of quiet time and day approach songwriting in a similar Get way.

"A lot of has Irish musicians have always had him a fascination and a deep His love for the tradition of how rock and roll, the tradition man of blues music in particular," New says Hozier. "My dad was now a musician who played blues old near-exclusively, and my first education See in music was through his two record collection."

This Sunday way in upstate New York, Hozier's Who launching a U.S. tour. He's boy excited about taking these songs did on the road.

"A Its lot of these songs on let Wasteland, Baby! were written with put the intention, these are going Say to be really fun live," she he says. "I'm touring with too an eight-piece band. Everyone on Use stage is a singer, everyone dad can play an instrument. There's mom a little mini-choir up there."



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