#wasteland baby album

[justgivemeabookplease]

I’m thinking about how Wasteland, Baby was a call to action and a tongue-and-cheek acceptance of the end of the world. And how Eat Your Young and Unreal Unearth are about the nine circles of Hell, about the afterlife, about the consequences after death. I’m thinking about one album cover being under water and another being buried under earth, about NFWMB “ain’t it like thunder under earth the sound it makes”, about Unreal Unearth and unearthing something, un-burial, about Like Real People Do “what did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth.”

I’m thinking Eat Your Young, about Kronos’ mythology, about hunger for and to keep power, about gluttony. I’m thinking about Swan Upon Leda, about the lust Zeus had for Leda, about the greed of man over bodies, about who is the sinner. I’m thinking about angels, about their lack of power in Swan Upon Leda “could never belong to angels”, about their fall from grace in the “Unknown” song “I thought you were like an angel/going unknown as any angel/you called me angel.”

I’m thinking about Hozier.

[sharkmelon3flower]

BUT WOULD YOU BE THE VOICE THAT URGED ORPHEUS WHEN HER BODY WAS FOUND?!?! WOULD YOU BE THE CHOICELESS HOPE IN GRIEF THAT DROVE HIM UNDERGROUND?!?!?WOULD YOU BE THE DREADFUL NEED IN THE DEVOTEE THAT MADE HIM TURN AROUND?!?!?

WOULD YOU BE THE IMMEDIATE FORGIVENESS IN EURYDICE!!!!!!!?!?!?!!!!

[thesunoficaruss]

[kacievvbbbb]

Wasteland baby! is the most under appreciated of the Hozier albums and truly what an album to be released just before the pandemic what a song to release before the pandemic. During an uncertain time an album about not being alone in a wasteland the way most of the songs are about devotion, to the point of fault, to the point of personal harm, to the point of manipulation, about doing everything to be with this person even when it's detrimental to you both or even when it's a person you've made up in your head, in a year when we couldn’t go out and see each other. Hozier releases an album that puts the yearning for love in the loneliness of the pandemic into words a full year before the pandemic even happened and we don’t even really talk about it and that should be a crime.

True that love in withdrawal was the weepin' of me That the sound of the saw must be known by the tree

god imagine hearing that in a pandemic and not going insane.

in this essay, I will-

[amali4m]

y'all remember when dante wrote a fanfiction of the bible and then hozier wrote a fanfiction of said fanfiction?? iconic if you ask me

[graaaaaayy]

hozier lyrics that stole pieces of my soul

heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I x

no grave can hold my body down, i’ll crawl home to her x

idealism, sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword, innocence died screaming, honey ask me i should know x

i’ve got some colour back, she thinks so too. i’m almost me again, she’s almost you x

screaming the name, of a foreigner’s god. the purest expression of grief x

know that i would gladly be, the icarus to your certainty x

don’t let me in with no intention to keep me, jesus christ x

[mochifiction]

Not a Transformers post but Hozier released his album and no I’m not sane or okay. I wanna talk about Butchered Tongue because there’s barely any discourse about it and I am absolutely inconsolable about it. While there are a lot of elements/ central themes of Irish colonization and the preservation of Irish language and inherently history/ culture with it, as a Person of Color, I was so deeply moved. It is a song of beautiful mourning, of sorrow in the blood and scars that run through the dying of or absolute death of a language. However, it is also a celebration and expression of admiration and awe over the strength and perseverance of language and those who wield it. Every verb, noun, accent, rolling of the tongue. Every simple sound, letter, article. All of it is an act of defiance of the voice to the oppressor. It is a fibre of being healing the deep wounds inflicted by the colonizer. Every utterance screams “We are here and we are moving onward even while still bleeding.” Even then, Hozier still captivated the grief that comes with the fact that…not all cultures have that. Not every community has the ability to learn their languages. Some are gone entirely. Some stopped being passed down for the sake of survival and assimilation. The anguish that comes with a bloody tongue, one that cannot speak what it was born to utter, to scream to sing…it’s a feeling difficult to put into words. To have this song in the Circle of Violence not only brings to light the physical violence against the Irish in their colonization, but the invisible consequences of such brutality on the colonized. The murders and scarring didn’t stop at flesh. Even some languages that survived didn’t escape without scars and wounds, infused with the languages of their colonizer (ex- Tagalog having pieces of Spanish in it). This was a love letter and kiss of praise yet also a funeral dirge to those wounded by colonization, and I have never sobbed so hard over a song before. It stirred such deep grief in me that I cannot explain.

[somequicknewmusic]

Wasteland, Baby! | March 1, 2019

"There is definitely a kind of wry smile to the work, but it takes place with a great shadow hanging over, I suppose, the end of the world kind of hanging over the album a little bit. But that is enjoyed in the best way possible."

[reusingcels]

SAW HOZIER IN CONCERT, BEST NIGHT EVER!!!!

Had to make a piece bc that concert had me so inspired

[meghanegghan]

more date ideas!!! you sit and listen as i tell you how important wasteland, baby! is as an album, and how amazing hozier is as a song writer because he made the album about politics, sex, and the apocalypse and it sounded like poetry in every song.

[awhitewomansinstagram]

look I know there’s a joke about “white hozier fans” as in the people who listen to him for being a forest spirit and don’t get the bigger message behind his music and the Black influences that define a lot of his work, but something I really like about Unreal Unearth is it kind of steps away from the “forest father” feel with its production (less acoustics than self-titled, leans more into rock than wasteland, baby!) and there are significantly less love songs/songs related to relationships than the last albums which really forces the listener to actually understand what he’s trying to communicate, so I hope it’s a learning opportunity for people who haven’t yet grasped the really big social justice and social commentary strand in his music

[justgivemeabookplease]

If the gluttony song is this sexy how the hell am I supposed to survive the lust one????

It’s either going to be filthy or extremely political

Andrew is a big believer in the “everything is about sex, except for sex, that is about politics” quote

[oh-look-at-her]

Rip me, you would've loved the whispered "that's it" and chuckle at the end of Wasteland, Baby!

[aliensamba]

Be still, my foolish heart. Don't ruin this on me.

[dinnerand-diatribes]

the holy trinity (Hozier, Wasteland, Baby!, Unreal Unearth)

[amali4m]

i'm fairly sure that each time i hear "and though I burn how could I fall when I am lifted by every word you say to me'' my soul literally leaves my body and i start levitating