Initially famous for his YouTube music covers and for his participation in the 2012 season of X-Factor Australia as a member of the band What About Tonight, Cave later formed a band called Chase Atlantic that released a debut EP, Dalliance, on iTunes in 2014. Shortly after launching Chase Atlantic, Mitchel Cave and his brother and musical collaborator, Clinton Cave, along with their third bandmate, Christian Anthony, quickly reached a YouTube audience of more than 100,000 subscribers.