Kodaline close the studio door with We Were Only Young

Kodaline have set their final studio album, We Were Only Young, for release on 2 October 2026. The Dublin four-piece announced the record as the end of the group's studio?album run. No tracklist or lead single has been revealed. The title already appears among the October entries on the industry upcoming?releases schedule. Beyond the date, the label and the “final album” designation, concrete detail remains scarce.

From 21 Demands to the last full-length

The band began as 21 Demands before taking the name Kodaline in 2012 as their music changed direction. The line?up has remained Steve Garrigan, Mark Prendergast, Vincent May and Jason Boland. Their first major statement arrived in 2013 with In a Perfect World, accompanied that year by EPs — Brand New Day, Love Like This, The High Hopes EP — and the live set Live at The Button Factory.

Chart success in Ireland and the UK followed through the following decade. By 2020 the group were still issuing singles such as Sometimes and Wherever You Are. The album All I Want landed in 2021; a live record, Our Roots Run Deep, followed in 2022. We Were Only Young now arrives as the declared close of that studio sequence, more than a decade on from the breakthrough year and four years after the last live album.

That span — early?2010s breakthrough, mid?career albums and singles, a live document, and now a farewell full?length — is the arc this October release sits within. Listeners who came in on In a Perfect World, or who stayed with the later singles and All I Want, are being offered a last studio chapter rather than a reissue or a live stopgap. The band have not presented the news as a split from the stage; the framing is specific: the end of the studio?album era.

What is fixed, and what is not

The Concord release date for the standard edition is locked for 2 October. Those are the hard facts. Song titles, writing and production credits, running order and any accompanying campaign single remain unannounced. Whether a dedicated run of gigs will be tied to the album has not been set out in the same statement.

A final studio album does not, on its own, mean the end of live work; it does mean that the catalogue of new full?lengths stops here. For an Irish act that broke through in the early 2010s and held a place on both Irish and British charts, that is the stake of the October date: one more studio set, then the line is drawn.

What comes next, beyond the first week of October, is still open. The record will have to speak for the songs once the tracklist appears. Until then, the title, the label, the street date and the word “final” are what stand. We Were Only Young is the last studio album Kodaline intend to make. The rest — the songs themselves, any single that leads it, and how long the road continues after the release — remain to be filled in.