Then something weird happened: His second album, Wasteland Baby!, debuted atop the Billboard 200 the following spring. Most Americans hadn’t thought about Hozier much since “Take Me to Church ...

Not that it's bad, just that it doesn't feel in any way exceptional among Hozier's last decade of releases - if you told me it was originally a deep cut I'd forgotten about from 2019's Wasteland ...

Singer-songwriter Hozier's Wasteland, Baby! is No. 1 on the U.S. album chart. Coming in at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 roster dated Saturday is Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next, followed by the A Star ...