Chase Atlantic’s music is an amalgamation of rock, different, hip-hop, R&B, lure and psychedelic — and a cautious listener may in all probability pick extra. In a world the place artists are traditionally berated for altering up their sonic fashion, the band’s sound speaks simply as a lot to the eclectic and frenetic listening habits of Gen Z, because it does to its experimentalism and understanding of their viewers of friends. Read an excerpt from their cowl story beneath, which seems in our spring 2023 challenge.
Beyond Warped Tour, Chase Atlantic element surviving the pandemic, their new album and the boy band-like fandom they’ve cultivated.
Rewind to 2018. A scorching, sticky summer season throughout North America. Chase Atlantic have been the unlikely breakout band on Warped Tour that 12 months, on a full lineup that included Waterparks, the Maine and Crown The Empire. Watch movies of their high-energy, low-production (as is the Warped Tour means) units from that 12 months and listen to crowds already singing again their lyrics. That expertise was a stepping stone that took them a great distance; a key turning level in their story that introduced them to this room.
“Warped Tour is like the hardest, most difficult tour you can do,” Anthony explains. “It’s boot camp for bands, in a sense. It makes you realize you cannot take a regular tour for granted because you’ve done 26 shows in a row, not knowing what time you’re gonna play. Waking up at 7:30 a.m. and going to sleep at 2 a.m. It really makes you grateful for just doing your own tour and being able to be on your own schedule.” Warped taught them how to be in a band and care for everybody round them who helps to make their units occur — the true rock stars are the roadies and crew individuals who make it occur — and, as Mitchel says, echoing a few years’ price of Warped musicians, “You work out which of the bands really aren’t good people.”
[Alternative Press spring 2023 issue with cover stars Chase Atlantic, shot by Jordan Kelsey Knight]
Though they’re humble and modest, it’s not a shock to them that they ascended throughout these reveals — they have been the odd ones out. “We were definitely the weird ones, while they were all still playing punk enough music,” Mitchel says. “We were doing a lot of programmed drums mixed with that rock element. We always like to dress up, and we were the only ones wearing the type of clothes we were wearing. It was like school where people are like, ‘Oh, who are these posers? Oh…oh, actually, they’re very nice.” The crowds, too, have been responsive to that: “I mean, who likes mundane stuff!” Anthony believes they got here in a lengthy line of seemingly oddball, off-genre artists who used that tour to shock youngsters throughout the nation. “Some of the biggest artists coming out of Warped Tour are the ones that were not in the same room. I mean, look at someone like Katy Perry. She came out of the Warped scene, and she was so drastically different to all that,” Anthony says. “Eminem did Warped Tour, too!”
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