“Last Light” is a glittery, little love offering that flows splendidly into the piano ballad “Looking For Heaven,” highlighting McDougall’s ability to soar among the angels, vocally speaking. “In My Dreams” is a mesmerizingly delicate, infectiously catchy hip-swayer touching on the struggles with achieving one’s dreams and accepting the pressures that comes with that territory, while McDougall’s vocals go soft and wispy on the emotional tribute to a true love, “For You.” Edgy “Crack My Heart,” the album’s second single/video, positively explores the turbulence we face in relationships, while “Just For Now” shines brightly, injecting a healthy dose of Alt-Pop rocking into the collection.Ī catchier, more sensual sound that is addicted to feeling can be found on “Burning On,” with Tonight Alive continuing into a darker, grittier vibe on the anthemic “Waiting For The End,” an exploration of being an individual and living each day to the fullest, refusing to live life scared and cowering. An honest, self-conscious comparison of oneself to others, as we women are so wont to do, “The Other” offers up a glory in the triumph of accepting yourself as something other and owning it, just as McDougall does here so wonderfully. It flows flawlessly into rocker “The Other,” where McDougall’s vocals absolutely soar.
The end result is a truly infectious, glorious sing-along track that is candid and confessional, while still being deliciously relatable.Ī catchy track that shows off the Tonight Alive’s talents beautifully, the band’s latest single/video, “Disappear,” features Lynn Gunn of PVRIS fame, and presents a delicate and alluring venture toward the melodic, sonic horizon. First single and fabulously artistic video “Temple” presents a darker, grungier sound that explores the fringes of mental illness, and how we can be in possession of heavenly bodies that bring us such personal hells. Underworld kicks off with the Pop Rock of “Book of Love,” where solid sonics weave a gentle embrace around McDougall’s vocals, which have a gentle electronic effect wrapped around them. This marks the band’s first album since the departure of founding member and Guitarist Whakaio Taahi. The thirteen-song collection features guest vocal spots from Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour, as well as Lynn Gunn of PVRIS, and offers up some of the band’s most anthemic and inspiring material to date. Now with a brand new year upon us, Tonight Alive – Vocalist Jenna McDougall, Guitarist Jake Hardy, Bassist Cameron Adler, and Drummer Matt Best – are ready to inject themselves into 2018 with their fourth full-length studio release, Underworld. They have also participated in Australia’s Soundwave Festival, The Bamboozle here in The States, as well as multiple summers of Punk Rock summer camp with the Vans Warped Tour. With the road being their second home, Tonight Alive have toured relentlessly since their inception, throughout both Australia and the United States, bringing the band to share stages with a truly eclectic batch of bands, ranging from 3OH!3, Dashboard Confessional, and PVRIS to Black Veil Brides, The Used, Motionless In White, Sleeping With Sirens, as well as All Time Low.
All the while, the band were accruing an almost limitless list of impressive credits, including a song on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 soundtrack and one featured on The Hills, working with Producer Mark Trombino (Jimmy Eat World, All Time Low), as well as collaborations with Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte. They released their debut, full-length album, What Are You So Scared Of?, in 2011, following it up with 2013’s The Other Side and 2016’s Limitless. Australian Rockers Tonight Alive are ready to face facts and awaken your sleeping soul on their aptly-titled, fourth full-length, Underworld, which arrives this Friday, Januvia Hopeless Records.Īustralian outfit Tonight Alive formed in Sydney in 2008, and wasted absolutely no time in heading out on the road.
There is a darkness inside each of us that, until embraced with honesty, can never be overcome consider it a kind of Underworld, if you will.