Inhaler’s new album “Open Wide” available now

Inhaler released their eagerly awaited new album “Open Wide” last week via Polydor Records. Recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by Grammy and Brit Award-winning producer Kid Harpoon, the Dublin quartet’s third album reinforces their status as the ultimate modern guitar band, a group for whom jubilant pop melodies, intricate grooves and rock’n’roll dynamics are kindred spirits rather than strangers. Band members Eli Hewson, Robert Keating, Ryan McMahon and Josh Jenkinson are currently on the UK leg of their Open Wide World Tour. The 11-date UK & Ireland tour includes two sold-out shows at London’s iconic Brixton Academy on February 13 and 14. On May 30, the band will return to play their biggest headline show to date at St. Anne’s Park in Dublin in front of 20,000 people.

“Open Wide” contains 13 songs, including previously unveiled tracks ‘Your House‘, ‘Open Wide‘, ‘A Question Of You‘ and ‘Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah)’, and shows Inhaler – who formed as childhood friends – finding themselves in exciting new ways and taking their sound in bold new directions.

It refines the infectious, euphoric singalongs of their first two albums, “It Won’t Always Be Like This” and “Cuts & Bruises”, into something more accomplished, an album you can lose yourself in and where every track feels like it could be a big single. Sonically, it’s an album where the band’s fondness for T.Rex, early MGMT, Prince, Depeche Mode and more nestles alongside the indie and garage rock influences of their youth and is a majestic celebration of who Inhaler are and all they’ve done to get to this point.

Working with British and Grammy award-winning producer Kid Harpoon, the band has learned to fully trust their own artistic vision. It’s an album that feels confident and assured, one that never gives the impression of wanting to be bombastic just for the sake of being bombastic. Instead, there’s a restraint here, such as in the way the wistful opener “Eddie In The Darkness” begins as if you’ve already seen the band play in a room, rather than taking you by surprise from the start, or the way the driving 80s pop grooves of “Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah)” constantly feel tight and loose at the same time, as if they’re gently gliding along. It’s the sound of a band that has everything under control. There’s playful glam-pop (“Your House“), stomping indie epics (“A Question Of You“), wiry, post-punk-influenced contemplatives (“Even Though“), adventurous art-rock (“X-Ray“), swaying ballads (“Again“, “Still Young“) and clattering, melodic garage messages (“Little Things“), all centered around the massive, panoramic rock of the title track (“Open Wide“), which is placed right in the middle of the album.

The reason why we called the album Open Wide is because we’re looking for a new perspective on our music. With this album, we’re closer to what we’ve always envisioned. It feels like we’ve always been trying to make this record. Eli Hewson

1. Eddie In The Darkness
2. Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah)
3. Your House
4. A Question of You
5. Even Though
6. Again
7. Open Wide
8. All I Got Is You
9. Still Young
10. The Charms
11. X-Ray
12. Concrete
13. Little Things

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