Open Wide by Inhaler

Open Wide, the third album from Dublin's Inhaler, landed on Polydor on 7 February 2025, and it finds the four-piece reaching for big, glossy sounds with Kid Harpoon in the producer's chair. Elijah Hewson sings and plays guitar, Robert Keating holds down the bass, Josh Jenkinson doubles on guitar and keyboards, and Ryan McMahon drums, and together they push their indie rock toward sleek, sing-along pop rock.

It's a confident record from a band that had already topped the charts at home twice: warm, polished hooks, swaggering choruses and a restless groove, as on "Billy (yeah yeah yeah)". Critics were generally kind to it. It debuted at number two in the UK, their third top-ten album there after Cuts & Bruises, and went straight to number one in Ireland, the band's third chart-topper in a row on home turf.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.