“Shots” and “I Bet My Life” - with a chorus that resembles The Kinks’ “Days” - might convince skeptics that frontman Dan Reynolds’ voice can have charm when it’s used lightly (or at least when he’s not affecting an irksome calypso cadence, as on “Polaroid”). It’s not as if there are so many dazzlingly original bands among their current modern-rock-format competition.īut the bombast of Night Visions hits like “Radioactive” has been tamped down. Note ‘”I’m So Sorry,” which breaks up Kid Rock country-rock with a wispy Snow Patrol-ling bridge, or the South Asian, “Get Yr Freak On”-style plucks on “Friction.” The band’s skillful cherry-picking will make fans of teen-pop listeners ready to get more sophisticated, as well as older ears looking to settle down. Five Seconds of Summer and Justin Bieber treat the history of power pop and R&B, respectively, as a vast vault of R&D for reliably ingratiating moves Imagine Dragons does the same with a wider palette, with bits of dance, classic rock and even Nashville. But none of that jeering will block Imagine Dragons’ second album, Smoke + Mirrors, from scoring a slew of hits, just as 2012’s blockbuster Night Visions did.
One could go on in this vein, and many critics have.
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The band’s name sums up its ethos - declaring a stout belief in creative vision, but applying it to a stock “epic” image, as if to say: “Imagine, you know, big imaginary stuff.” This knack for radiating ambition, but not for anything in particular, renders ID ideal for TV, movie and ad synchs, including a Target-sponsored $8 million live broadcast in the middle of this year’s Grammys.
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