The Dublin quartet didn\u2019t plan to follow up last year\u2019s 350,000-selling In A Perfect World so promptly. In fact, they didn\u2019t plan at all. Sparked by an experiment that inspired them to shake up their sound, the band started recording and couldn\u2019t stop. Just eight weeks later, Coming Up For Air was complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt happened so quickly. A lot of the songs were done live in the studio, on the spot.\u201d, says singer Steve Garrigan.<\/p>\n
Kodaline were still on tour in support of their debut \u2013 which went Top 3 in Britain, spent nine weeks at No.1 in their native Ireland and made inroads in Europe and the States \u2013 when they received an invitation to spend a week in L.A. with producer Jacknife Lee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t regard it as an album session,\u201d insists guitarist Mark Prendergast. \u201cWe thought we\u2019d have some fun and see what happened. Jacknife is Irish and his track record is unbelievable. We weren\u2019t about to turn that down.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Kodaline didn\u2019t expect was to leave L.A. with an entirely new approach to making music, an affection for synths and their second album\u2019s epic first single, Honest, already written.<\/p>\n
Back in Britain, as soon as festival season finished, an inspired Kodaline set to work on the album they were itching to make. Electronics played a key part, adding depth, new dimensions and a harder edge to the band\u2019s trademark soaring choruses and widescreen sound.<\/p>\n
There were sessions in Surrey, Dublin and Longford (\u201cA place in the Irish countryside where there\u2019s nothing to do but make music\u201d) with Jim Eliot (Ellie Goulding) and In A Perfect World producer Steve Harris. There was a second week in L.A. with Jacknife Lee (Snow Patrol, R.E.M., Taylor Swift).<\/p>\n
Coming Up For Air may be a sonic step on, but at its core remains Kodaline\u2019s ability to connect instantly with an audience, to share the emotions in their songs and to pull the listener in to their world. It\u2019s a smart, sharp, sophisticated album, by a band only just discovering what they\u2019re capable of.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the concert on the 20th of Februar are available SongKick.com and at the pre-sale stores for 440 CZK (+fee).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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