Hozier Releases New Single, Announces Show in Cork

Multi-platinum singer and songwriter Hozier recently released his new single ‘Almost (Sweet Music)’, which is available to download and stream now. The new single comes in anticipation for his upcoming album Wasteland, Baby! set for release on March 1.

‘Almost (Sweet Music)’ has already proved itself a stand out track from the upcoming album. On release last week, it was added to Spotify’s Hot Hits UK, Pop Rising and The Pop List playlists.

Wasteland, Baby! follows Hozier’s 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 last September. 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 and the track was the subject of the Song Exploder podcast’s first episode of 2019, which you can listen to here.

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 won ‘Top 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 Hozier’s critically acclaimed self–titled debut album, which has now amassed over 2.1 billion streams on Spotify alone, while his total, global Spotify Playlist reach currently sits at over 71 million. 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.

Wasteland, Baby! will be released on March 1 on Island Records.

Hozier plays a headline show at Irish Independent Park in Cork on June 25th. Tickets are available now through www.ticketmaster.ie