The album was put up for pre-order that same day. The group announced the title of their fourth album on October 3, 2018, via social media. If they really are troubled by their success or how they’re perceived, their dark night of the soul looks set to continue apace: cliches, cod profundities and all, Origins sounds like another vast hit. Perhaps it all hints at a gulf between how Imagine Dragons see themselves – fearless sonic explorers and socio-political philosophers straining at the very confines of commerciality – and what they actually are: a band who’ve hit on a winning formula, where mainstream pop music is larded with just enough references to classic rock to lure in not just lovers of the Top 40, but the kind of people who normally sniff at mainstream pop. Zero (From the Original Motion Picture “Ralph Breaks The Internet”) The lyrics deal in windy generalities – “Why can’t you just be my brother? Why do we have to kill one another?” – or stuff that fancies itself as profound but doesn’t actually seem to make any sense whatsoever: “I want a new world without the order, I want to resurrect and live a little shorter.”Ġ7. What individual character it has comes from an occasional desire to graft on well-worn stadium rock tropes: the pained intensity of Reynolds’ vocals, the rhythm of Machine that mimics the thump-thump-crash of Queen’s We Will Rock You, the yearning, U2-ish breakdown that appears midway through Zero.
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