Beauty in Death

by Chase Atlantic

Overview

Australian trio Chase Atlantic dive deeper into their dreamy electronic pop and SoundCloud R&B with 2021's woozy Beauty in Death. The album follows their equally atmospheric 2019 set Phases, and finds them having largely produced the record on their own in Los Angeles during the shutdown from the COVID-19 pandemic. As with Phases, Beauty in Death is a genre-bending album in which lead singer Mitchel Cave, singer/saxophonist Clinton Cave, and singer/guitarist Christian Anthony evoke a kind of post-modern combination of '90s R&B outfit Jodeci and the 1975. There's a downtempo quality to the album, and tracks like "Paranoid," "Pleasexanny," and "Empty" find the group sinking into shimmering minor-key grooves marked by buzzy drill-bit percussion, glassy synths, vocoder-drenched melodies, and the occasional Middle Eastern flute flourish. It's a claustrophobically self-conscious vibe, straddling the emotional chasm between thoughtful introspection and #nof*&ksgiven debauchery. Tracks like "Out the Roof" showcase the band's inclination toward performative swagger as they revel in postapocalyptic bad-boy tropes like waxing poetic about their car's afterburner flamethrower. Similarly, on the buoyantly narcotic "Slide," they grapple with their emotional angst over relationships by using drugs, or at least drug metaphors, singing "Mental pressure; only text her when I'm noddin' off" and "I think the nitrous did damage, I can't feel my legs," all before launching into a magnificently gratuitous sax solo. Drugs and depression color much of Beauty in Death, and Chase Atlantic certainly aren't the first band to write a love song that's really about getting high, as they do on "Molly." That said, the group's commitment to their half-lidded loverman persona is oddly hypnotic, and Beauty in Death vibrates with their distinctive blend of old-school rock star hedonism and internet feels. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2023
Label:	Fearless / Fearless Records
UPC:	0888072539518

Tracks

1. Paranoid
2. Pleasexanny
3. Out the Roof
4. Slide
5. Beauty In Death
6. Please Stand By
7. Aleyuh
8. Molly
9. Call Me Back
10. I Think I'M Lost Again
11. Empty
12. Wasted

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chase Atlantic   Primary Artist
Dewayne   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Maggie Lindemann   Primary Artist,Vocals
Xavier Mayne   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Tim Henson   Guitar
Clinton Cave   Bass,Guitar,Keyboards,Saxophone,Percussion,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass)
Mitchel Cave   Bass,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards,Percussion,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass)
Cameron Bloomfield   Guitar
Christian Anthony   Bass,Drums,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards,Percussion,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass)
Patrick Wilde   Guitar

Technical Credits

Clint Moody   Mixing,Mixing Engineer,Mixing Assistant
Seth Drake   Mixing,Mastering,Mastering Engineer
Chris Shelley   Artwork,Creative Director
Jonathan Hoskins   Composer,Producer,Recording Producer
Paris Carney   Composer
Maggie Lindemann   Composer
Chase Atlantic   Mixing,Producer,Recording,Recording Producer
Clinton Cave   Composer,Drum Programming,Vocal Arrangement
Mitchel Cave   Composer,Drum Programming,Vocal Arrangement
Cameron Bloomfield   Composer
De'wayne Jackson   Composer
Marc Mutnansky   Producer
Christian Anthony   Composer,Drum Programming,Vocal Arrangement
Sony Sando   Composer
Patrick Wilde   Composer
Jonathan Rago   A&R