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Inhaler on Leaning Into Pop With Kid Harpoon-Produced Album ‘Open Wide’: ‘We’ve Never Really Felt Like an Indie Band’
Irish band Inhaler on their new 'pop album' 'Open Wide,' working with Harry Styles producer Kid Harpoon and learning to 'go with their gut.'
The Dublin-bred quartet — made up of singer and guitarist Eli Hewson, guitarist Josh Jenkinson, bassist Robert Keating and drummer Ryan McMahon — got their roots in the alt-rock scene, and embraced that sound with debut album “It Won’t Always Be Like This” and 2023’s “Cuts & Bruises.” But for their third full-length effort “Open Wide,” out today via Polydor Records, the band wanted to go a slightly different direction. “Just because something has guitars over it, I don’t think that excludes it from being pop,” Hewson tells Variety over Zoom, calling from Dublin alongside Keating. There’s definitely huge advantages that go with having a famous parent because people come to the shows, they want to see what’s going on, but I think that pressure actually made us into really hard workers.
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