Vinyl Record

Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This

Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This on LP vinyl. A 2021 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 2021

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2021 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

It Won't Always Be Like This is Inhaler's debut album and a knowingly anthemic first statement from a Dublin band raised on the idea that guitars could still make rooms feel larger. Released in 2021, the record arrived after years of singles, live momentum and pandemic delay, and that timing gives the title extra charge. It sounds like a young band trying to outrun uncertainty by making choruses big enough to stand inside. The album's strength is its directness. The title track, Cheer Up Baby, My Honest Face, When It Breaks and Totally all reach for lift, but the record is not only bright. There is tension between youthful impatience and genuine anxiety, between polished indie-rock hooks and the messier feeling of a band discovering how to carry expectation. Eli Hewson's voice sits upfront, while the guitars and rhythm section aim for momentum rather than miniature detail. What makes the album collectible is its role as a starting point. Inhaler would refine and broaden their sound later, but this debut has the energy of first arrival: urgent, melodic, occasionally oversized and completely committed to the idea of band chemistry. It belongs to the lineage of Irish guitar records that think scale and sincerity are not things to be embarrassed about.

It Won't Always Be Like This matters because it introduced Inhaler at album length and became a chart-topping debut in both the UK and Ireland. In a period when guitar bands were often framed as niche, the record showed there was still appetite for big, melodic indie rock from a young Irish group. Its title also captured the emotional weather of its release moment without being trapped by it.

This is the Inhaler album to own as the origin story. It has the singles, the first-album urgency and the clearest version of the band's early widescreen indie-rock instinct. Collectors of contemporary Irish music should file it beside the records that document a band's first public leap, before later albums complicate or polish the formula.

Widescreen Irish indie rock with bright guitars, urgent drums, melodic bass movement, upfront vocals and choruses built for communal lift.

Recommended for: Collectors following new-generation Irish guitar bands; Fans of melodic indie rock with arena-sized instincts; Listeners who like debut albums with youthful urgency.

When was It Won't Always Be Like This released? It Won't Always Be Like This was released on 9 July 2021. Is this Inhaler's debut album? Yes. It is the band's debut studio album. Which songs are key entry points? The title track, Cheer Up Baby, My Honest Face, When It Breaks and Totally give a strong map of the album's sound.