Dublin quartet Inhaler may have already clocked up a UK chart topper in their 2021 debut It Won’t Always Be Like This and a silver podium place with its follow-up, 2023’s Cuts & Bruises, but in more personal ways, says 25-year-old frontman Elijah Hewson, this month’s third act, Open Wide, feels like a new beginning.
“I think there was definitely a lot of anxiety on the first two albums. It was so stressful. We’d never been in a studio before, we had to get on tour, we had to finish the singles. It was very highly strung whereas I think in this one we had an opportunity to go back to…” he pauses. “There was a deadline, but it was more about not stressing about that stuff. It was a real joy to make. I think that made a huge difference to me.”
