Vinyl Record
Inhaler - Open Wide
Inhaler - Open Wide on LP vinyl. A 2025 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2025
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2025 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Open Wide is Inhaler's third album and the sound of a young band deliberately loosening its frame. Released in 2025, it follows It Won't Always Be Like This and Cuts & Bruises with a clearer pop instinct, a broader palette and the production presence of Kid Harpoon. The result is still guitar-driven, but the guitars no longer carry the whole identity by themselves. The band sounds more interested in groove, shine, space and contrast. Your House introduced the album with a sharper sense of movement, while songs such as Eddie in the Darkness, Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah), A Question of You, X-Ray and Little Things suggest a group trying to make confidence feel less rigid. The title Open Wide works as a useful instruction: the record opens the sound outward, away from strict early indie-rock urgency and toward something more elastic. There is still plenty of romantic pressure and youthful restlessness, but the production gives the songs a brighter, more sculpted body. What makes Open Wide interesting is that it does not treat growth as seriousness alone. Inhaler sound playful, polished and more willing to let pop color into the room. For a band whose debut was defined by big choruses and live-band drive, this album feels like an attempt to keep that scale while making the details more flexible.
Open Wide matters because it marks Inhaler's move from promising guitar band to a more deliberate pop-rock act with wider sonic ambitions. Its 2025 release showed the group continuing to build on early chart success while resisting a simple repeat of the debut. For a contemporary Irish music shelf, it documents a band trying to expand without abandoning the hooks that brought listeners in.
This is the Inhaler record for collectors who want the evolution chapter. It belongs after the debut because it shows what happens when the band brings in a more expansive producer and lets the songs breathe in brighter, more pop-facing arrangements. It is a useful shelf marker for the point where Inhaler begin to sound less like arrival and more like development.
Polished guitar-pop and modern indie rock with bright production, melodic lift, rhythmic bounce, romantic tension and a more open studio palette.
Recommended for: Inhaler fans tracking the band's third-album growth; Collectors of contemporary Irish pop-rock; Listeners who like guitar bands with brighter pop production.
When was Open Wide released? Open Wide was released on 7 February 2025. Who produced Open Wide? The album was recorded with producer Kid Harpoon. How does Open Wide differ from Inhaler's debut? It keeps the band's melodic guitar identity but adds a broader, brighter and more pop-shaped production palette.