Tonight Alive is a pop punk/emo pop/pop rock band from Sydney, Australia.
The band formed in Sydney in 2008 and two years later they released their first three EPs, titled All Shapes and Disguises, Consider this and Let it Land (Let it Land was released as a second CD with What are You So Scared of? in Australia). In 2011 (2012 for America), they released their first studio album, titled What are You So Scared of? through the Sony Music Australia and later Fearless Records.
The band's second studio album, The Other Side, was released on 6 September, 2013.
Their third studio album, Limitless, was released on 24 March, 2016 through Sony Music Australia. It features 11 tracks and has 4 singles: Human Interaction, To be Free, Drive and How Does it Feel?. The band started work on the album in March 2015 with producer David Bendeth. From late April through mid-may, Tonight Alive went on All Time Low's Future Hearts Tour, with Issues and State Champs. In either late June or early July, Tonight Alive finished recording Limitless. Timothy Monger of AllMusic gave the album a very mixed review, stating "Australian five-piece Tonight Alive continue to distance themselves from their pop-punk origins on their slick, but mostly confident third LP. Over the course of their first two records, the Sydney-based group underwent a subtle shift from exponents of fairly straightforward pop-punk and emo to something a bit more expansive. Recorded with veteran producer David Bendeth in New Jersey, Limitless seals their full pop crossover with an accessible, uplifting, and very mainstream sound. What might be considered a sellout by some can sometimes be a positive move when handled with finesse, and Tonight Alive make a convincing go of it on soaring anthems of empowerment like "To Be Free," "Drive," and "Power of One." Aiding their cause is frontwoman Jenna McDougall, whose bold pipes are powerful enough to drive the more rock-centered tracks and emotive enough for the ballads, of which there are quite a few. For the more cinematic rockers and singalongs, this high-end studio polish works well enough, but sadly it's the glut of banal ballads like "Human Interaction" and "The Greatest" that drives down Limitless' value and injures the band's credibility. Using big-label money to take your band to another level is certainly no sin, but there are some tracks here that feel a bit like pre-fab sync licenses in search of a TV drama. On the other hand, a strong power ballad like "Oxygen" somehow soars on the wings of its own unabashed earnestness, showing how fine a line Tonight Alive are treading in their gambit for fame and fortune.", highlighting certain songs, but downgrading many ballads.