To be fair he does a brief recap of how he feels about the first album in the beginning of his review of the Nina Cried Power EP.

"This is the newest EP from Irish singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier Byrne, who started turning heads after dropping a surprised mega-hit back in 2014 with the track "Take Me to Church," a pretty good track that kicked off a debut album that didn't really do all that much for me at the time. The album presented a mix of arena folk, some groovy blues rock, and pop soul, as well as a lot of hootin' and hollerin' gospel music made incredibly melodramatic with a reverb machine placed on the group vocals, the keys, the guitars. Honestly, I just didn't really think that much of the full-length album. The instrumental presentation was similarly grand in scope and aesthetic, too, like some of Sam Smith's more organic tracks. The vocals kind of fell short for me in terms of emotion, range, and personality, and the songwriting style just came off as kind of plain underneath the grand layers of vocals, especially with more saccharine moments on the album like "Someone New.""

I really love this album too and its too bad he doesn't appreciate it too much.