Chase Atlantic is a trio from Cairns, Queensland, Australia, who formed over a decade ago and consists of brothers Mitchel Cave and Clinton Cave, along with their longtime friend Christian Anthony.

Mitchel aka Mitty usually serves as the lead vocalist and often handles programming, bass, and guitar duties during studio sessions. Christian rocks the rhythm guitar, sings, and contributes to programming and production. Clinton plays lead guitar and saxophone and also assists with production and backing vocals.

Together they've released four studio albums: Chase Atlantic (2017), Phases (2019), Beauty in Death (2021), and Lost in Heaven (2024). Each album has evolved from synth-driven pop to darker, more R&B-leaning production.

Including their early EPs -- Dalliance (2014), Nostalgia (2015), Paradise (2016) and their 2017 trilogy (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three), their fans have streamed their songs over 8 billion times.

Recently Mitty and Christian stopped by the Setlist offices to talk with Tony Pierce about seeing their first hip-hop show, listening to Travis Scott, and loving Phil Collins. Click on the video above for the whole convo or keep scrolling for the highlights.

Young Thug, the Novo, LA, 3/16/17

Tony Pierce: So your first marquee memory is Young Thug at the Novo in downtown LA?

Christian Anthony: Yes, for Mitty’s birthday.

Mitty: That was dope. It was our first time ever at a rap concert. We didn’t know what to expect. Yeah, Clinton and Christian surprised me for my birthday. And I don’t think we were allowed to drink yet.

Christian: Yeah, I think we were still 19.

Mitty: Yeah, we were allowed to drink in Australia because it’s 21 here. But we were sneaking in beers.

Christian: So we were sneaking, we were running away from the security guards on the other side.

Mitty: We had a puff with the marijuanas, you know what I mean? We were cheeky.

Christian: We didn’t know, but then 21 Savage was also opening as well. So we got really two phenomenal performers for one.

Mitty: There was one point in the show where he left the stage. And for 10 minutes, he was just gone.

Christian: They’re just playing music, he’s just gone.

Mitty: In my head he just went and sat down and went, “I’m just tired.”

Christian: Just taking a break.

Mitty: There weren’t any technical issues, it’s like he’s just like the king, so he just does what he wants.

Christian: It was the first concert in Los Angeles we had bought tickets to go see. I remember we had no money at the time and we got you a little merch shirt as well.

Mitty: Yeah, I wore that thing to death.

Christian: Very cool shirt. But it was, yeah, one of our first Los Angeles shows together.

Mitty: It was a Slime Season T-shirt.

Pardon me?

Tony Pierce: How did that hip-hop show in LA differ for your previous concerts back home?

Mitty: In Australia, there’s no hip-hop.

Christian: Yeah. There’s no hip-hop shows in Australia.

Mitty: I mean, there’s hip-hop artists, but it wasn’t the stuff that we were into.

Christian: Yeah. There’s more of a scene for it now. There’s artists like Onefour, even Kid Laroi, people who have brought it to the pop culture in Australia. But even artists like Onefour have a really tough time playing in Australia because we have very strict stupid laws with venues.

Mitty: If you have, what is it? A charge or something—

Christian: It’s any criminal record—

Mitty: You can’t play a show.

Christian: Tyler, the Creator was banned from Australia at one point as well.

Mitty: Why? He’s so sweet.

Christian: ’Cause of his lyrics in "Yonkers."

Tony Pierce: Lyrics can get you banned from Australia?

Mitty: They got a bunch of rules in Australia, man. The Australian police are scary.

Tony Pierce: I mean, your lyrics aren’t G-rated either.

Mitty: Yeah. I didn’t do any crimes. I don’t think.

Tony Pierce: Jelly Roll recently had to ask his congressman to pardon his crimes because he’s on the Post Malone Big Ass Stadium Tour.

They wanted to go worldwide and they weren’t going to be able to go to London for those reasons that you’re talking about, visas. And so thankfully politicians love his music.

Mitty: That’s crazy. I have a semi-similar story. When I was a stupid young teenager, I almost got a criminal record just for doing silly stuff, silly crimes and such. I’m not going to dive into it, but I actually had to contact the police officer that arrested me.

This is when we had just started Chase Atlantic, and I was like "I’ve messed this whole thing up for everyone."

And so he actually pardoned me. He was amazing. I wrote this lengthy email like my life depended on it because it did.

Christian: It did. Because that would’ve been, I think it’s a 10-year ban from Los Angeles.

Mitty: Wouldn’t be sitting there today.

Tony Pierce: Right. So shout out to everybody who pardons rock and rollers.

Mitty: Yeah. Shout out to the good law enforcement.

Hearing Travis Scott's "Fiend" for the first time

Christian: We went to Mitty’s house for the listening of Utopia. We had a few friends over and when it got to that song and the chorus dropped, it sounded exactly like Mitty, and we went nuts. We played it back and played it back and played it back.

Mitty: It’s that high-pitched, because I’ve got a high voice. Even the inflection of it.

Tony Pierce: When you guys were starting off, really, really starting off, you would do a whole bunch of covers on YouTube and put them up. Would you cover "Fiend" now?

Mitty: It seems tough.

Christian: I think now, if we were to do covers, we’d get something that is... so opposite us and then make it sound like us.

We’ve been wanting to do this for ages, but Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise."

Mitty: But you have to nail it to do that.

Christian: Yeah.

Mitty: We all heard it growing up. Yeah, we were still on the roof.

Christian: This was in the Brisbane days still. We have this really strange thing where it will go from a Travis Scott song and then Phil Collins will come up. Our parents were huge fans of music as well growing up, so all the good early Australian stuff.

Mitty: It’s not like Phil Collins was underground.

Christian: Australians love Phil Collins. I’ve always thought he was Australian, just based off how big he is over there.

Live debuting new songs at festivals?

Tony Pierce: A lot of people say you shouldn’t live debut your new song in front of a festival audience.

Mitty: Unless you’re Travis Scott.

Christian: Yeah. If you’re Travis Scott, you do what you want.

Tony Pierce: Would you guys live debut a new song at a festival?

Christian: We did, at BludFest. We debuted a song, "Face Down" from our new deluxe album.

Tony Pierce: The new deluxe is called...

Christian: Lost in Heaven (High as Hell).

We did BludFest, Yungblud’s festival, and we were really happy to do it with him. We had rehearsed this song and it sounded really good live.

Mitty: Felt good to play.

Christian: We have to debut it at the festival.

Tony Pierce: What was the reaction of the fans?

Mitty: They loved it.

Christian: I thought it was the best reaction we had got.

To hear the entire conversation, click the video at the top of this post.

Chase Atlantic have a half dozen more shows on their 2025 calendar. Catch them in South America by grabbing tickets from the Chase Atlantic website.