Why you need to be paying attention to the Dublin music scene
by Brianna Kline
Between the wars, political turmoil on all fronts, accumulating health crises, and distress over numerous civil rights. The Dublin-originated band, Inhaler, has managed to cement themselves as vital members of the modern-day music community with their most recent single, “These Are The Days,” while simultaneously showing a light at the end of a very long and very dark tunnel.
‘These Are The Days,’ is nostalgia at its finest, with a presentation of underlying hope. The song paints the image of harmless, reckless youth with the lyricism combined with an irresistible snapping baseline backed by a thumping mid-paced drum and a light gritty guitar. Memories and yearnings of perceived fleeting freedom will flood in through any cracks in the facades of listeners, as the boys sing the lyrics, “These are the days, I don't miss the feeling of being alone” and “I’m holding out / I’m hanging on / For the moment when it all goes wrong.” Undoubtedly allowing listeners to reminisce on times deep in quarantine when we all got to be best friends with our respective ceilings and walls, to now when we are beginning to be able to taste the breeze of the liberation we knew before. The song is the epitome of late-night drives, skating around a park at 1 am, singing at the top of your lungs with childhood best friends in the middle of a field. A buzz in your bones and a vision of hazed technicolor. It’s dumb memories sure to last a lifetime, and feeling like the definition of the main character, as cliche as it sounds.
As the first single to a future second album, success is looming on the band’s horizon. These are the days leading up to Inhaler’s version of a musical revolution, and the obsession of fans across the globe. Amidst the raging world the four boys- Elijah Hewson (lead vocal, rhythm guitar), Josh Jenkinson (lead guitar, rhythm guitar), Ryan McMahon (drums), and Robert Keating (bass guitar, backing vocals)- found a semblance of solitude with the release of their 2021 album, ‘It Won’t Always Be Like This,’ as they have been on the road playing at various festivals and shows in the UK and Europe. They are filling the musical gap between generations and are “breaking the limit” on the reach music can have while breaking out of the Dublin music scene, proving that some sounds never age.
In recent news, the band will be joining Harry Styles and Wet Leg for a show at Slane Castle come June 10, 2023.
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