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Mar 4, 2019It’s a lovely sound, but the songwriting veers more towards the serviceable than the inspired.
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Mar 1, 2019Wasteland, Baby! has enough encouraging displays of maturation to feel like a transitional moment for Hozier. At its best, the album carves out a space for the singer to work out his creative tensions as he finds new ways to make his straight folk influences more accessible without losing anything along the way.
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Q MagazineFeb 28, 2019It's when Hozier tries to do throwaway, good-time tracks that the record falters slightly. [Apr 2019, p.119]
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UncutFeb 28, 2019It lacks a distinctive identity. [Apr 2019, p.31]
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Mar 6, 2019At 14 tracks in roughly an hour, Wasteland, Baby! falls prey to the humdrum, all its power wrung dry.
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Feb 28, 2019Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s second album Wasteland, Baby! is still stuck mid-sermon, albeit emaciated from surviving solely on stale communion wafers.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 81 out of 100
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Mixed: 13 out of 100
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Negative: 6 out of 100
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Mar 1, 2019
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Mar 2, 2019After the great EP Nina Cried Power I was kinda expecting more from this new album, it was okay.
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Mar 1, 2019amazing album i really love it i tried to write another review but i think it got deleted. 10/10 album, it has a great visual and amazing vocal lines