Its not that the rock recipe doesnt work, but there are often rewards for lively acts such as Imagine Dragons when they stray away from stirring together the formulaic ingredients for a radio-friendly tune.I've liked all the singles from the album so I figured I'd like this as soon as I got around to listening to it right through.
Its Time has become a successful hit partly because of its peculiar use of the mandolin to uplift what would otherwise be a song built on a conventional verse-chorus-verse backbone, but tracks like ∾very Night are too predictable with the big drums, the reverberating claps, and the upbeat piano slams. The record is ornamental in style and trite in message. Tracks like Hear Me are full in sound, but theyre forgettable because theyve been penned many times before by the glamorous arena rock outfits that sell out stadiums and don magazine spreads. Those that have stood out in previous releases - ∽emons and On Top Of The World - are still the only ones that give Night Visions any sort of crunch and edge. The full-length LP gives us 11 tracks from Las Vegas band, a handful of which have already been released on previous EPs but with various studio tweaks. Weve heard more crisp songs from them before.Īfter sneaking into the airwaves and into our summer playlists through a handful of hopeful EPs, Imagine Dragons struggles to validate its hype with Night Visions. It’s a shame that Night Visions fails to match the fresh adrenaline rush that the bands first single had promised us when we first heard it on the radio or in commercials earlier this year.
If you had bounced and jumped around to Imagine Dragons chorus in Its Time, you would also wait with so much excitement for the bands first full-length album.
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