Chase Atlantic
Australian alt-pop trio Chase Atlantic -- brothers Mitchel and Clinton Cave, and bandmate Christian Anthony -- is already priming the pump for their upcoming self-titled debut full-length, with a half dozen excellent singles that show why their biggest cheerleaders include Good Charlotte’s Joel and Benji Madden (who signed them to their media firm MDDN) and Sleeping with Sirens, with whom Chase Atlantic just toured. Those singles, all slated for their album, landed them over 30 million global streams, with 900,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, where their track “Friends” is at around 8 million plays, at least according to the hype machine touting their October 25 appearance at the Space.
Sporting a big, anthemic electro-tribal pop sound akin to 5 Seconds of Summer and the 1975, “Friends” is probably the best track to sample if you’re unfamiliar and considering attendance, with top-shelf pop-radio rapping from K Camp and iLoveMakonnen that all but guaranteed trending across social media. Songs like “Keep It Up” take a turn toward acid jazz, saturated in the sounds of sax, and “Church” nearly goes grunge, co-written with green-haired L.A. rapper Lil Aaron.