Time to Be Alive is the fourth solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Matt Cardle.

[1] In early 2015 Cardle spoke about taking a different direction for his fourth album, with a more electronic sound than his previous work.

"[4] During a gig on 18 June 2016 in Guildford he performed a new song called "Desire" for the first time, which would eventually be the lead single from the album.

On the same day it was announced the album, entitled Time to Be Alive, would be released on 27 April 2018 and was made available to pre-order.

Two further tracks, "Time to Be Alive" and "Blind Faith" were also made available to download prior to the album release.