Limitless

AlbumMar 04 / 201611 songs, 38m 35s75%
Pop Rock Alternative Rock
Noteable

With intense studio buffing, the rock quintet make bold leaps in sound and ambition. Producer David Bendeth previously injected chart gloss into Paramore and here he oversees the reupholstering of Tonight Alive’s pop-punk into stadium-shaped melodrama. There are still a few serrated edges–the charged riffing of “How Does it Feel?”–but Jenna McDougall’s gale-force vocals are the focal point as anthemic pop-rock (“To Be Free”) and full-blooded ballads (“Oxygen”, “The Greatest”) get cut with dashes of electronica and swooping hooks.

3 / 5

There's no doubting that Tonight Alive are being brave with their attempts on this record.

Australian five-piece Tonight Alive continue to distance themselves from their pop-punk origins on their slick, but mostly confident third LP.

3 / 10

Tonight Alive have done their fair share of genre hopping over the course of three studio albums. The Sydney five-piece have dabbled in every shade of