#wasteland baby deluxe

[justgivemeabookplease]

Why Would You Be Loved is the anti-No Plan. They're in conversation with each other.

One asks "why would you love and care and create and try to help others when there is always going to be suffering and pain and the death of everything?"

And the other asks "why would you wallow in the suffering and pain and death when you could love? everything is going to end anyway."

[whim513]

just listened to unaired 👍🏼 next time yall see me i’ll be a whale carcass at the bottom of the ocean

[rachiesart]

Happy five years Wasteland, Baby ❤️

[unreal-unearthing]

Also more hozier posting but I just realized the deluxe wasteland, baby! we’re getting in April includes moments silence, the live version of shrike and nfwmb! Finally some justice for nfwmb.

[lifemod17]

I don't think I ever said why I love W,B! and why it's so important to me? Sooooooo

Wasteland, Baby! and why it means a lot to me... Today (March 01) is actually the record's 5 year anniversary!! I would say this album is easily #2 on my all time favorite albums (This Place Will Become Your Tomb by Sleep Token is #1). How I would summarize this album and what it feels like to me is: "LOVE THROUGHOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD". We live in this messed up world where so many things often go awry and while it gives us countless reasons to remind us how fucked up our home is- that there can always be a silver lining. That there will always be hope and something to give you a reason to keep going. That the right person can make you feel like being alive isn't the worst thing because you have someone that makes you feel loved amidst all the shitty things. <<< Classic me to have that mentality/how I look at life, so naturally I resonate IMMENSELY with it.

I've been listening to it for a while, a few years now actually, but my love for this record came to me in the most unexpected of times- I was doing laundry haha and I remember having a very exhausting day and the title track came on shuffle, and it was instantly one of those times where I had to stop what I'm doing and just EXIST IN THE MOMENT WHILE THIS SONG PLAYS.

The entire record is beyond beautiful and so well made but the title track specifically is so important to me because that was one of the few times I had heard this GORGEOUS love song -the kind that tugs at your heart, with lyrics literally saying "wasteland, baby, I'm in love, I'm in love with you"- and nobody came to mind. I was just at peace and was happy to be hearing those soft vocals and soothing humming. This song to me, quite literally feels like a long, warm, soft hug. The kind that rids me of all the bad shit that happened. It feels like the kind of embrace where I immediately felt safe.

This song is not everyone's cup of tea may it be because of it's tempo or the voice effects. I personally love the fact that it is drowning in all that reverb because it adds to this effect where it feels like hearing sounds WHILE YOU ARE UNDERNEATH THE WATER. There's no crazy instruments, just Andy and his ethereal vocals.

And if you did not know, yes Andrew is actually underwater in that album art cover! And YES his mother OIL PAINTED THAT WITH ALL THE TINY DETAILS!!! There's also a really sweet sunset line so you know I am a massive sucker obviously!

But yeah, it is SO VERY important to me. And the fact that THERE WAS A NEW SONG THAT CAME OUT FOR THE 5YR ANNIVERSARY *AND* THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A DELUXE VERSION ON APRIL 19!!??!!!! Seeing that made me so happy 🥰

[clockwork-stars]

*SCREAMS*

[tired-and-swaggy]

my jaw is on the floor. wasteland, baby! era how i’ve missed you so <333

[justasmisunderstoodasloki]

I saw Hozier's announcement, and I immediately pre ordered the Wasteland, baby! limited and deluxe vinyl, as if I was hypnotised

[pokeharvest]

maaaaan I can't believe I have to wait a whole week before the unheard ep. The snippet of too sweet is so good I need to hear it NOW

[ennislamore]

He's just releasing Wasteland, Baby! Deluxe version w brand new song??? I'm not surviving this March

I really hope that Hozier's gonna release the Rob the Goddess song he posted about like a year ago on his ig on the promised EP next month, cause i cannot stop thinking about it since then

[daydreaming-in-letters]

Thoughts on Wasteland, Baby! (deluxe) coming out? I hope he brings back the sea glass green vinyl for the deluxe version

Looks like he did! And it’s stunning. 😍 Also adore the new hoodies and might have ordered them both… 😬

But the most important bit is of course that we got (and will get) new music. Be (acoustic) is simply gorgeous. I can’t get enough of it. I listened to it on my way to work this morning, walking by the calm river, the sun slowly rising above the roofs of the smalltown. Haven’t felt that peaceful in quite a while.

Also, I am massively in love with this line: Your heart in the world, and a world there within

Can’t wait to listen to Why Would You Be Loved as well… and then there is still the EP he promised. Fates, we are truly blessed.

[whim513]

moodboards for unaired :3

nobody’s solider:

july: (@lifemod17 thought of you while making this one)

that you are:

[lifemod17]

MAN IS OUT HERE DOING TIKTOKS

He's so silly goofy 😭

Source: tiktok.com

[kikixreverie]

Little update since people have been reblogging this again:

The hyper fixation is still very much going strong and I went to see him live in December and have been literally dead since then, his voice and presence was too powerful. I haven’t really been able to think about a single thing that isn’t him in so long and I’m okay with that.

Not sure if i fw real people fics as I’ve never written one but goddamn I’d love to write some stuff about that man.

Ps: for reference, I was at the all black suit London show and I’m sweating thinking about him.

I WAS IN HIS PRESENCE WHEN HE LOOKED LIKE THIS

And I witnessed this beauty 😭🥹

my Hozier hyperfixation has returned and he is literally all I can think about rn…

[crimsonred-hi]

Vinyls

Pairings: Andrew Hozier-Byrne x Reader

Summary: He’s got new vinyls coming out, but his girl needs to approve first. Because her opinion is most important.

He loves his girlfriend. Because she’s incredible and he’s a lover of strong women. I mean, who just writes a song about getting pegged.

He comes home, just to visit, because he’s gotta get back to being a musician, but it’s the 5th anniversary of ‘Wasteland, Baby!’. A lot of the songs on that album are about you, including Dinner & Diabetes because you pegged him, you’re his Wasteland Baby. So he thinks it’s very important to come home for a few day because of that anniversary.

So he’s standing at the door waiting for you to open it because his hands are full of things.

“Bear!”

His heart skips.

“Hey, how’s it going? Yer’ve got a few days with me before I’m back to tour.”

She giggles, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing at his cheeks before helping him get all his things in the house.

“I’ve got a little present for you, Sugar.”

‘Sugar’, that’s a new one, but it sounds incredibly in his accent. And she’s definitely very sweet.

“Oh? You got me something? Bear… you didn’t have too.”

She says with a warm smile, taking his suitcase to the kitchen so the clothes can be washed and repacked. Not knowing what he has brought for her.

She giggles as he comes up to her a small bag, his bright smile is warm and pleasant. She takes the bag looking in side,

“It’s just a copy of ‘Wasteland, Baby!’?”

She says confused, looking back at him with a soft smile,

“Nah, Sugar… it’s a special copy.”

He says with a confident glint in his eyes.

She smiles, opening it up then screaming,

“Deluxe! A Deluxe!”

He smiles warmly at her reaction, so happy to have a lover who loves his music as much as he loves making it.

“Be (Acoustic)! Be! Acoustic!”

His heart melts at her, he just sits himself down on the couch, watching her as she hung the stars.

[lulu-spooks]

I’ve been trying to get into Hozier lately, and seeing as you seem to be the resident expert on him, what songs would you recommend starting with?

(I know his more popular ones obviously, like Take me to church, Too sweet, and Nobody’s soldier, but I want to know about some of his secret bangers)

EEEEEEEE!!!! You’re in for a treat!

And thank you for the acknowledgment of resident expert, I have 10 years experience in hozier listening and I don’t play about it.

So the thing about hozier is that I truly believe he has a no skip discography on all of his solo works. And pretty much all of his collabs are also bangers (with the possible exception of tell it to my heart. Don’t start there)

Ok so from his first album I want to highlight a few tracks, Jackie and Wilson, from Eden, work song, like real people do, and to be alone. They are all sonically very similar (as are most of the tracks on the first album) but they all sound totally different. The instrumentation stays the same for most of the tracks but I am literally incapable of mixing them up. They all have unique sounds while still remaining cohesive in the context of the album. Expect great guitar and vocals, very little to no synths, funky beats (including some fairly cool time signatures). Excellent lyrics, definitely worth reading along. Especially cherry wine which at first glance sounds like the most beautiful love song but if you read along you’ll see how violent it is.

Wasteland baby is the second album. Standout tracks for me are Nina cried power, dinner and diatribes, would that I, shrike, be, and the title track wasteland baby. This one is definitely the sexiest album. Expect much more exploration into bluesy tunes and sound effects, the beats are getting even funkier, the lyrics are catastrophic and feature a lot of references to Greek mythology. This is the kind of album that you sit at the end of the world and listen to while everything falls apart. Wasteland baby the song epitomises this. It’s the conflict between standing up and fighting the broken systems that oppress people vs the need to give up and wash your hands of everything. Admitting we tried our best and it wasn’t enough. At least I have you. The deluxe tracks for this one are some of his best work on this project so check out why would you be loved, nfwmb and moments silence too.

Unreal unearth. This one is my favourite and my being has been altered by this album in ways I can’t even describe. Every song is a grade A hit. It’s actually my favourite album of all time I think. Honestly everything on this one is worth listening to but at some point once you’ve listened to all of the tracks individually, I cannot reccomend enough that you sit down and listen to the whole thing in order. No pauses. The whole thing with this album is that it’s a journey into the underworld inspired by Dante’s inferno. Each song occupies a different circle of hell and discusses topics surrounding the cardinal sins that are punished in each circle. It’s worth searching uk which sings belong in which circle. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a concept album but it uses the story as a great jumping point for exploring moral, political and religious topics that are not discussed in the original cantos. This album is a masterpiece and I could literally write about it for hours but my thumbs are already falling off so I’ll keep it quick. Standout tracks are Francesca, first time, eat your young, abstract psychopomp, who we are, unknown nth, all things end, first light, de selby part 1 and butchered tongue. If you want the more explicitly political tracks choose eat your young and butchered tongue and READ ALONG. I could write fucking essays just on eat your young. This album was also written in the context of covid 19 and the lockdown and songs like all things end really make a heartbreaking but uplifting anthem for this period in time. The general sound of the album is very different to the two preceding albums. Expect much more manipulation of vocals and distortion of instruments. Expect more instruments. Expect full orchestra and stripped back guitar. Expect drums that sound like thunder and lightning. And for gods sake read along with this one. Cuz it’s fucking fantastic lyric writing and a lot of it can be missed in his pronunciation. When Andrew learns to annunciate it is OVER for us all.

Extended songs from unreal unearth are numerous and you’ve said you’ve heard nobodies soldier (also very political) and too sweet. I’d also recommend wildflower and barley for a soft lockdown summer feeling tinged with hopelessness, empire now as an anthem for Irish liberation and how much it was fucking worth it despite the troubles that followed and that you are for the most year inducing love song also within the context if lockdown. Just see “that I’d be anyway that you are” which will I’m sure soon be written on my body in tattoo ink. Through the flood acts as the introduction to the full album experience, hymn to Virgil is the last one.

Anyway have fun I tried not to write a fucking essay but I did. For unreal unearth in particular I have read no less than 5 books to examine source materials for his lyricism. I also learned a fuck ton about production to understand how he gets the sounds he does in his music. All to say this guys music is my whole life. And it can be hard to tone it down. If it all sounds confusing I’m sorry I’ve been writing this for like 40 minutes and I just did a full day in the recording studio and my brain is fried and my fingers are dead and I need to sleep, where I will probably listen to ‘to someone from a warm climate’ to sleep. Bye :P