INHALER RELEASES NEW ALBUM OPEN WIDE OUT NOW
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07 FEBRUARY 2025 (TORONTO, ON) — INHALER release their eagerly awaited new album Open Wide via Polydor Records. Recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by Grammy and Brit Award-winning 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 dynamism are kindred spirits rather than strangers. It arrives as bandmates Eli Hewson, Robert Keating, Ryan McMahon and Josh Jenkinson ready themselves for the first night of the UK leg of their Open Wide World Tour tonight in Leeds. The 11-date UK & Ireland tour includes two sold-out shows at London’s iconic Brixton Academy on 13th and 14th February. The band return to play their biggest ever headline show to date to a 20,000-capacity crowd at St Anne’s Park in Dublin on May 30th.
Featuring 13 songs, including previously unveiled cuts ‘Your House’, ‘Open Wide’, ‘A Question Of You’ and ‘Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah)’, Open Wide showcases INHALER - who formed as childhood friends - thrillingly coming into their own and taking their sound in audacious new directions.
It hones the sweeping, euphoric singalongs of their first two albums It Won’t Always Be Like This and Cuts & Bruises into something more fully formed, a record you can lose yourself in and one where every track feels like it could be a big single. Sonically, it’s an album where the band’s love of T.Rex, early MGMT, Prince, Depeche Mode and more nestles alongside the indie and garage-rock influences of their teens, and is a majestic celebration of who Inhaler are and everything they’ve done to get to this point.
Working with Brit and Grammy-winning producer Kid Harpoon, the band learned to fully trust their own artistic vision. It’s a record that feels confident and sure of itself, one that never feels like it’s trying to be bombastic for the sake of it. Instead, there’s a restraint here, like in the way yearning opener Eddie In The Darkness begins like you’ve walked in on the band playing in a room already instead of hitting you over the head from the off, or the way the propulsive 80s pop grooves of Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah) constantly feels tightly-wound and loose at the same time, as if its gently gliding by. It’s the sound of a band in full 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 rattling, melodic garage-y missives (Little Things), all revolving around the immense, panoramic rock of the title track (Open Wide), planted 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,” states Hewson. “With this album, we’re closer to what we’ve always envisioned,” he adds. “It feels like we’ve always been trying to make this record.”
The full tracklisting is:
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
Since their career launched in 2018, INHALER have been among the biggest new names in guitar music, achieving commercial success with roaring chart positions. To date, they’ve sold over a quarter of a million records globally and garnered 500 million streams. Their debut album, It Won’t Always Be Like This, hit #1 in the UK and Ireland, while their 2023 follow-up, Cuts & Bruises, topped the Irish charts and reached #2 in the UK. To maintain this momentum, have spent the past few whirlwind years on a relentless world tour, supporting acts like Arctic Monkeys, Pearl Jam, Harry Styles, and Kings of Leon, as well as headlining their own shows, including a sold out 13,000-capacity homecoming show at the Dublin 3Arena last year.
Open Wide World Tour – UK & Ireland dates
February 2025
Fri 07 Leeds O2 Academy (SOLD OUT)
Sat 08 Manchester O2 Apollo (SOLD OUT)
Mon 10 Birmingham O2 Academy (SOLD OUT)
Tue 11 Nottingham Rock City (SOLD OUT)
Thu 13 London O2 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
Fri 14 London O2 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
Sat 15 Brighton Centre
Mon 17 Glasgow O2 Academy (SOLD OUT)
Tue 18 Glasgow O2 Academy (SOLD OUT)
Wed 19 Newcastle O2 City Hall (SOLD OUT)
Fri 21 Manchester O2 Apollo (SOLD OUT)
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