{"product_id":"phases","title":"Phases","description":"\u003cp\u003ePHASES is the second studio album by Australian alternative trio Chase Atlantic — Mitchel Cave, Clinton Cave, and Christian Anthony — released on June 28, 2019, via MDDN\/BMG Rights Management. Following their 2017 self-titled debut and the Don't Try This EP released earlier that year, the album was assembled in a remarkably compressed timeframe of under two months, with the band writing and producing the record themselves while holed up in Los Angeles. As Mitchel Cave explained in a Substream Magazine interview, the album was a deliberate push into pop territory without the fear that had constrained earlier work — \"we weren't too afraid to make pop music\" — blending R\u0026amp;B, rock, psychedelia, and dark synth-pop into a cohesive whole threaded together by a recurring space-travel concept, with soundbites of countdowns and orbital imagery connecting the 12 tracks into something closer to a continuous journey than a conventional track listing. It has since been reissued on vinyl in 2026 by BMG on ghostly purple and pink vinyl as part of the broader series reissuing the band's early catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross its 41 minutes, PHASES is Chase Atlantic's most emotionally wide-ranging release to that point, moving between the upbeat psychedelic pop of \"ANGELS\" and the title track, the dark R\u0026amp;B of \"HER\" and \"HEAVEN AND BACK,\" and the more vulnerable, introspective terrain of \"STUCKINMYBRAIN\" — written about mental health — and the closing \"I DON'T LIKE DARKNESS.\" As Ones to Watch describes it, the album is \"an amalgamation of sounds and experiences, ranging from living life on the brink hip-hop to pulsating electronic undercurrents whose own swells and surges mirror the rush of emotions that accompany heartbreak and the desire for love.\" The retro-inflected melancholy of tracks like \"I NEVER EXISTED\" and \"EVEN THOUGH I'M DEPRESSED\" gave the record a strong emotional resonance with the band's fanbase, and PHASES remains one of their most beloved releases — a wildly adventurous sophomore record from a band fully committed to making pop music on their own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Ghostly Purple \u0026 Pink Vinyl","offer_id":53536542687546,"sku":"38146","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-29_at_1.44.25_PM.jpeg?v=1780077062","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/phases","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}