Alternative rock band Inhaler has posted a video edit teasing their third album on social media.
The band Inhaler recently took an extended hiatus from touring following the conclusion of their year-long world tour for sophomore album Cuts & Bruises. During this 11-month break, the band — made up of founding members Eli Hewson, Josh Jenkinson, Ryan McMahon and Rob Keating — was relatively quiet on their social media, only posting occasionally.
This near radio silence was broken on Oct. 7, when the band deleted all their previous posts and uploaded a short video across all their social media pages. The video, a roughly edited collage of random clips of various landscapes, people and the band members themselves, was captioned: “Where we’ve been these last few months. Third time’s the charm.”
After watching the video, many fans began to speculate about the phrasing of the caption, predicting the release of a new album. These theories were confirmed on Oct. 10 when Inhaler posted a series of eight film photos of the band in the studio, the final of which is focused on a dry-erase board that read “Inhaler LP. 3.”
While there is no word on when this new, currently unnamed album will be released, Inhaler has already begun a new North American tour. The concerts, which started on Oct. 11 in Nashville, have mostly been a mixed bag of hits from their first two albums, suggesting that another North American tour dedicated just to their upcoming LP is in the works. Still, the band has been treating their fans to a sneak peek of what’ is to come.
On the first night of the tour, Inhaler opened with a new track, “Your House,” and tacked “Eddie in the Darkness” onto the encore. They have also played “Open Wide,” another unreleased song, at a handful of recent shows.
While this could have been the end, the band seems to enjoy teasing their fans.
Things only got more mysterious when fans noticed a series of four posters that featured a red question mark and the date ’10.29’ pasted on a wall in Dublin. While there was initially no link between the posters and the band, Inhaler confirmed their involvement by posting a picture of them on X.
On Oct. 17, another video was posted of bass player Keating, only identifiable by his bleached hair, playing the keyboard. While the clip isn’t very long, captioned “Barefoot in the street,” it includes a bass-heavy hook from what is likely another one of the new album’s tracks.
Still relatively new to the music scene, Inhaler has shown a lot of growth throughout their past two albums, but they have room to develop.
In his NME review of Inhaler’s Cuts & Bruises, Thomas Smith noted that the record, while impressive for a sophomore album, still leaves the band with “space to grow and continue developing a sound more distinctly their own.”
“While they do lack that Fender-esque grit in their story, they are similarly zealous and charming — they’re fast carving out their own worthy place in the scene.”
Perhaps with this third album, they will do just that.