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Sofa Session: Inhaler

Inhaler play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their debut album, It Won’t Always Be Like This.

Inhaler play a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from their debut album, It Won’t Always Be Like This.

When the world went into lockdown in March 2020, Inhaler spent a year crafting and honing a debut album in a manner that no-one has ever dreamed of making their debut album: writing sessions over Zoom, quarantine conditions in the studio, no pubs open to reflect on a hard day’s tracking.

It was the words of their early single that they kept coming back to: β€œIt won’t always be like this”. Six words to hang on to. That sense of remaining hopeful, of pulling through hard times, seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, is the thread that ties this mesmeric collection of songs together. β€œThere’s a sense of optimism on this album and the song It Won’t Always Be Like This is the main catalyst for that,” says Hewson. β€œWe kept coming back to that title.”

When everything was going to pot, when the future looked uncertain, Inhaler kept the faith. It Won’t Always Be Like This is a coming-of-age record, an album about adolescence, love, getting lost and finding yourself again. It closes one chapter of the band’s life and opens another.

Inhaler originates from Dublin, and is made up of singer and guitarist Eli Hewson, bassist Robert Keating, guitarist Josh Jenkinson and drummer Ryan McMahon.. They originally formed in 2012 at St Andrews College in Blackrock, Dublin, but the band only decided on the name Inhaler in 2015. They placed fifth in the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's annual music poll, Sound of 2020.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Jul 2021 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bleachers

    Stop Making This Hurt

    • Stop Making This Hurt.
    • RCA Records Label.
    • 1.

  • Coldplay

    Coloratura

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Parlophone Records.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    The Darkness That You Fear

    • EMI.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    When The Sun Goes Down

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.

  • Rosalia

    Malamente (Cap1: Augurio)

    • Malamente.
    • 1.

  • Eurythmics

    Thorn In My Side

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Big Red Machine

    Renegade (feat. Taylor Swift)

    • (CD Single).
    • 37d03d.

  • Talking Heads

    Once In A Lifetime

    • Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
    • Sire.

  • Inhaler

    Cheer Up Baby (Sofa Session, 28 July 2021)

  • Kings of Leon

    California Waiting

    • YOUTH & YOUNG MANHOOD.
    • Handmedownrecords.

  • Fryars

    Pair Of Dancers

    • God Melodies.
    • Fiction Records.

  • Isla Wolfe & Xeni

    Hard To Love

    • Hard To Love.
    • 1.

  • Bicep

    Glue

  • Carole King

    It's Too Late

    • Carole King - Tapestry.
    • Epic.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Jul 2021 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2