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INHALER RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘IT WON’T ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS’ 9TH JULY VIA POLYDOR RECORDS IT’S BEEN A LONG, HARD ROAD THESE LAST 15 MONTHS OR SO, BUT THE THING TO REMEMBER IS...IT WON’T ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS. IT’S NOT JUST WISE WORDS TO HOLD ONTO, IT’S ALSO THE TITLE OF THE PERFECTLYTIMED AND ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL DEBUT ALBUM BY DUBLIN’S RISING STARS INHALER.
The young Irish band - Elijah Hewson, Robert Keating, Josh Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon - were already well on their way to the big leagues well before they had even recorded a note of the album, but one listen to what they’ve came out with is all the proof if needed that it’s only a matter of time before they’re a household name. It’s an album full of powerful and defiant anthems, a classic coming-of-age record that is ready and waiting to soundtrack a summer
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of (hopefully) freedom and connection. It’s a debut album that couldn’t have come at a better time and is all the better for it. Frontman Eli said: “We’ve been thinking about this album for about four years, ever since we formed the band and started playing gigs. It Won’t Always Be Like This is one of the first songs we ever wrote and we’ve played it at every show we’ve ever done. There was a point before the pandemic where we thought we had the album and
were confident we could go in, record it and deliver something great, which I think we would have. When lockdown happened though, we obviously had a massive drive to do something during it, so we put so much more effort into writing more material and came up with five more songs for the album, which made it so much better. We couldn’t do anything else, so the only thing we had control over was writing songs. In the end we came out with an album that we are all really, really proud of.
