![]() ![]() Happily, there are no such missteps here. Most egregious of all was Someone New, essentially James Blunt's You're Beautiful performed by a whiskery busker who wouldn't mind sleeping in your shed, were that an option. It's probably as well he took his time, because, if the first Hozier album contains instances of transcendence – Take Me to Church is basically Coldplay if they'd read the Old Testament and weren't rubbish – there were also a few glib moments in that album that hinted at a last-minute rush. ![]() ![]() Hozier has confessed to feeling the pressure as he sat down to write a follow-up to his first record. There is also a tingling cameo towards the end from the soul maven Mavis Staples, with whom Hozier sang at Electric Picnic, before the full details of the new EP had been made public. If anything Nina Cried Power is even more gargantuan than that smash, with at least two separate choruses and endless stirring crescendos. ![]()
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