Each of the members moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to form Imagine Dragons, a rock band. In 2008, Imagine Dragons formed consisting of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, drummer Andrew Tolman, and keyboardist Brittany Tolman. It was nominated for the Juno Award for International Album of the Year (2014) and won the Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album (2014). The album became the fourth best-selling album of 2013 in the US. Night Visions appeared in the Billboard 200 top 10 in 2012, 2013, and 2014. It also peaked at the summit of the Billboard Alternative Albums and Rock Albums charts, as well as in the top ten albums in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. However, it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 in the United States, selling more than 83,000 copies within its first week where it has since been certified double Platinum. The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics upon release. Musically, Night Visions exhibits influences of folk, hip hop and pop. According to frontman Dan Reynolds, the album took three years to finish, with six of the album's tracks being previously released on multiple EPs. Recorded between 20, 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. The extended version was released on February 12, 2013, adding three more songs and the UK release of the album was on March 26, 2013. It was released on September 4, 2012, through KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records. 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.Night Visions is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. 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. “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.
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