It’s big and bold, but thanks to the band’s pop nous and Reynolds’ willingness to lay it all on the line, it’s never cynical, much like the band who made it. According to frontman Dan Reynolds, the album took. The album was primarily produced by the band themselves, as well as English hip-hop producer Alex da Kid and Brandon Darner from the American indie rock group The Envy Corps.
It was released on September 4, 2012, through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records. Radioactive (Night Visions, 2012)Īs well as being a fantastic song in its own right, Imagine Dragons’ breakthrough hit is a perfect primer for everything that has made them successful: the tension between rhythmic snap and distorted beats, the wordless chants that precede the simple-but-effective chorus, the self-empowering lyrical theme. Night Visions is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. “It’s where my demons hide.” Torment never sounded so sweet. The EP's second track, Demons builds from a gentle lilt into an exercise in large-scale catharsis: “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside,” warns Reynolds. Suddenly they sounded like genuine contenders. It was their debut major label release and marked the first time they’d worked with British producer Alex Da Kid. Imagine Dragon’s fourth EP, Continued Silence, was a tipping point. The lyrics might find Reynolds working through his own inadequacies, but musically this is utterly triumphant.
The fuzzy synths of the verse suddenly give way to an explosion of gospel-inspired exhilaration that rushes by like a bursting dam. Imagine Dragons don’t do small-scale, but Mouth Of The River is grandiose even by their standards.
