Chase Atlantic
When: 30th April 2025
Location: OVO Hydro
Chase Atlantic are an Aussie alt-pop loaded with R&B sensuality. Coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on 30th April 2025.
Equally indebted to SoundCloud rap and emo-electronica as it is a kind of universally emotive R&B, Chase Atlantic’s meaningful brand of alt-pop has propelled the Australian trio from a viral breakthrough to mainstream adoration.
Throughout the decade since their formation, Chase Atlantic have undergone a consistent sonic transformation, which can be attributed to the individual band members’ musical beginnings and subsequent personal journeys before they came together.
Born and raised in Cairns, Australia, brothers Mitchel and Clinton Cave grew up studying jazz and classical music, educated by the genre’s innovation and exploration. At the age of fifteen, Mitchel joined promising – but reportedly manufactured – boyband What About Tonight who entered the Australian edition of The X Factor with high hopes of securing pop superstardom. They were eliminated by public vote in the second television round, with all five members returning to their respective hometowns to lick their wounds.
Mitchel, still only a teenager at this point, set his sights on a new musical path with his brother and Christian Anthony, who was also a former member of What About Now, as Clinton recruited the two to record for his university project. The three ambitious musicians formed Chase Atlantic in 2014, and began uploading their compositions to YouTube – at that point, Clinton already had a moderately successful YouTube channel where the two would upload covers of Bruno Mars and other soulful stars that straddled pop music.
Debut EP: Dalliance
Chase Atlantic hit their stride with debut EP, Dalliance, in 2014 which fused contemporary trap beats with anthemic emo-rock influences, distinguishing Mitchel and Christian as pop-rock artists in their own right outside of the boyband realm. It was the trio’s sophomore EP the following year, Nostalgia, however which would catapult Chase Atlantic into the hearts and minds of millions worldwide. Their 2015 single ‘Friends’ swiftly became a viral hit, and remains their most-listened to song to date with over 700 million streams on Spotify alone.
Their fresh amalgam of moody pop rock and nocturnal R&B didn’t go unnoticed – Good Charlotte’s own brother duo of Joel and Benji Madden signed Chase Atlantic to their MDNN development company soon after, bagging the trio a record deal with Warner Bros ahead of their eponymous 2017 debut album. It spawned huge hits in ‘Swim’ and ‘Into It’, landing Chase Atlantic lucrative spots on the Warped Tour in 2018 and festivals like Reading and Leeds Festivals, and Bonnaroo.
2019’s Phases amped up the intrigue around the band, with singles ‘Her’ and ‘Love Is (Not) Easy’ earning Chase Atlantic a place in the top ten of the Heatseekers chart and landing the album at number 24 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart. Relocating to Los Angeles, the pandemic would put the brakes on any momentum throughout the two years after. With their regular recording studio temporarily shut down, they largely recorded their third album Beauty in Death at home. The experience was ironically freeing, yet didn’t stifle any of the band’s creative adventurousness or their commercial viability, with the album becoming a Billboard-charting success once again.
Cold Nights Tour
Their Cold Nights Tour in support of the album marked their first return to Australia for the band in 2022, before Chase Atlantic embarked on a brief hiatus. The trio returned a year later, reinforcing their blossoming reputation as a must-see live act with a lauded festival performance at Lollapalooza in 2023, releasing the vibrant, tropical-tinged single ‘Mamacita’ soon after.
It was a sign of their sound to come, with fourth album Lost In Heaven announced for release on 1st November 2024. Preceded by the dreamy, beat-driven ‘DIE FOR ME’ and ‘Doubt It’, the trio’s music-making approach was maturing, with their narrative sensuality coming to the fore.
