In A Perfect World

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Ally Carnwath (16 June 2013). "Kodaline: In a Perfect World – review | Music | The Observer". Guardian . Retrieved 2 May 2014. Canadian album certifications – Kodaline – In a Perfect World". Music Canada . Retrieved 4 February 2023.

Love Like This" was released as the second single from the album on 31 May 2013. The song has peaked to number 8 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 22 on the UK Singles Chart and 19 in Scotland. Sullivan, Caroline (7 June 2013). "Kodaline: In a Perfect World – review". Clash . Retrieved 22 June 2013. Jones, Alan (5 October 2018). "Charts analysis: Rod Stewart rules albums chart". Music Week. Intent Media . Retrieved 22 January 2020.Kodaline is a four-piece Irish band. They are also a hardly original four-piece Irish band. Already, the group has earned comparisons to the likes of Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Mumford and Sons and U2, and I’d be darned if I didn’t hear a little bit of the Waterboys somewhere circa Fisherman’s Blues on their debut disc, In a Perfect World (but maybe that’s just the Mumford copying showing its obvious influence). Your mileage on whether or not this “imitation” is a form of sincere flattery or just plain laziness will vary. Since the album was released in June 2013 in the United Kingdom, the critical response to it has veered all over the map into love it or hate it territory. As of the beginning of September, when I sat down to pen these words, In a Perfect World had a pretty mediocre Metacritic score of 54. On one end of the spectrum, Clash Music gushed that “Kodaline illustrate all the ingredients for greatness, with many a swooning chorus to invoke a thousand festival lighters held aloft.” On the other, Q Magazine trashed the record, giving it a two out of 10 score, and dubbing it “entirely meritless”. So how much you like In a Perfect World pretty much rests on how much you like other contemporary British and Irish bands.

Kodaline have been featured in different movies and shows. [18] Below is a list of some of the films that their music has been played in: Vincent May Reflects on Growing with the Band and Adapting to the New Normal". Popspoken. 13 May 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. Vigil, Dom (16 June 2022). "Kodaline Announce Acoustic Album, 'Our Roots Run Deep' ". Prelude Press . Retrieved 18 October 2022.

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Teaching each other the principles of songcraft, the music they came up with – some of which can be found on their self titled EP (released in Ireland on Friday 7th September) – isn’t wan or introspective or self-serving. Instead, it’s bold, epic and stirring. Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2016 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 30 November 2016. Philip Magee speaks about producing Kodaline, The Script & More". [Air // Million] . Retrieved 8 August 2015. [ permanent dead link] Six years later, at a youth retreat, both were placed in the same house and both took guitars. A musical bond was formed over late night singalongs. Returning to Swords, they recruited Vinny, who also lived two minutes away (“Swords is a small place, for a big town” says Steve), and set about forming the first of myriad bands. The line-up was recently completed by bassist Jason Boland.

Carnwath, Ally (16 June 2013). "Kodaline: In a Perfect World – review". The Observer . Retrieved 22 June 2013.

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The album is just full of songs that don’t hit and seemingly don’t even try. While “All Comes Down” would be interesting in that it takes a bit of a gospel feel, the plinky plinky piano chords of the song come across as being so manufactured that it doesn’t emote a feeling of honesty. You listen to the song and start calculating in your brain how much money the band might make if it were released as a single. And when Garrigan swoons here that “Love is a battle,” you start to get images of Pat Benatar dancing in your head. Cliché. And follow-up song “Talk” has such a standard chord progression that you know exactly where it is headed without having to guess the next notes. Name That Tune, indeed. And the other exacting problem with the record that is seemingly one big ballad after another. Clash Music did get it right in saying that this is music for arenas, with thousands of Bic lighters held in the air. The problem is, that’s the sole utility of this record. It is so brazen in its sense of calculation, that it’s hard to take Kodaline seriously as an artistic band. Kodaline is simply a cash cow.

Gill, Andy (14 June 2013). "Album review: Kodaline, In a Perfect World (B-Unique)". The Independent . Retrieved 22 June 2013. On 10 January 2020, the band released " Wherever You Are" as the lead single from their fourth studio album. The song peaked at number sixty-six on the Irish Singles Chart. " Sometimes" was released as the bands second single from their fourth studio album on 6 March 2020. The song peaked at number ninety-four on the Irish Singles Chart. The album titled One Day at a Time was released on 12 June 2020. The album peaked at number two on the Irish Albums Chart. In November 2020, the band released the single "This Must Be Christmas". Steve Garrigan– lead vocals, rhythm guitars, keyboards, harmonica, mandolin (born 23 August 1988) (2005-present)

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Hardy, Tony (20 June 2013). "Album Review: Kodaline - In a Perfect World". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 20 June 2013. Break-ups make it really easy to write”, laughs blonde-haired Steve. “When we write music, the first thing we think of is, it’s therapy for us. Then we think of how we can use that feeling to touch as many people as possible.”