In December 2014, the band announced their second LP Coming Up for Air, and released a song called "Honest" on YouTube. A few days later they also published the song "Unclear". Following its release on 9 February 2015, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 4. "The One" and "Honest" both reached Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. [ citation needed] Lead singer Steve Garrigan appeared on episode 18 of The Midnight Hour. 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. Kodaline take it One Day at a Time with new album". Rte.ie. 1 May 2020 . Retrieved 6 September 2020. 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.” Steve Garrigan– lead vocals, rhythm guitars, keyboards, harmonica, mandolin (born 23 August 1988) (2005-present)

Hardy, Tony (20 June 2013). "Album Review: Kodaline - In a Perfect World". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 20 June 2013. Canadian album certifications – Kodaline – In a Perfect World". Music Canada . Retrieved 4 February 2023. Demands also wrote the single "One of Those Days" which they played on the Irish SuperValu channel BalconyTV. 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: Sullivan, Caroline (7 June 2013). "Kodaline: In a Perfect World – review". Clash . Retrieved 22 June 2013.Best of 2013 – Top 20 Albums". Irish Recorded Music Association. Archived from the original on 14 November 2014 . Retrieved 10 June 2014. Vincent May Reflects on Growing with the Band and Adapting to the New Normal". Popspoken. 13 May 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. Philip Magee speaks about producing Kodaline, The Script & More". [Air // Million] . Retrieved 8 August 2015. [ permanent dead link] The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Kodaline; 'In a Perfect World ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.

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. a b Sullivan, Caroline (20 June 2013). "Kodaline: In a Perfect World – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 June 2013. Jones, Alan (5 October 2018). "Charts analysis: Rod Stewart rules albums chart". Music Week. Intent Media . Retrieved 22 January 2020. Gill, Andy (14 June 2013). "Album review: Kodaline, In a Perfect World (B-Unique)". The Independent . Retrieved 22 June 2013.Garrigan and Prendergast grew up in Swords, Dublin, and have known each other since childhood. May and Garrigan attended Colaiste Choilm CBS, Swords, where they participated in battles of the bands. Boland joined the group in 2012. They have released four albums: In a Perfect World (2013), Coming Up for Air (2015), and Politics of Living (2018). Their fourth studio album, One Day at a Time, was released on 12 June 2020. [3] Career [ edit ] 2005–2011: 21 Demands [ edit ] Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2016 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 30 November 2016. Vigil, Dom (16 June 2022). "Kodaline Announce Acoustic Album, 'Our Roots Run Deep' ". Prelude Press . Retrieved 18 October 2022.