Night Vision

Night Visions by Imagine Dragons [Deluxe Edition] [CD] Track Listing: 1 Radioactive 2 Tiptoe 3 It's Time 4 Demons 5 On Top Of The World 6 Amsterdam 7 Hear Me 8 Every Night 9 Bleeding Out 10 Underdog 11 Nothing Left To Say / Rocks 12 My Fault [Bonus Track] 13 Round And Round [Bonus Track] 14 The River [Bonus Track] 15 America [Bonus Track] 16 Selene [Bonus Track] Deluxe edition includes five bonus tracks.  2012 album from the Las Vegas-based Alt-Rock quartet. --- Emotional struggle is central to Imagine Dragons' ethos.  From the beginning it's been the group's goal to take the pain they've each experienced in life and spin it into something redemptive and uplifting.   That transformation of emotional pain into art is what drives them as people and it's also what inspired their first hit.  I wrote It's Time during a very transitional period in my life, Reynolds recalls.  It seemed like everything was going wrong.  I was trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life, trying to figure out how seriously to take music. I was making decisions about who I was.  I'm a pretty young guy and I m still trying to figure out the answer to those questions.  With the release of Night Visions, Imagine Dragons finally have a chance to show the world what that magic sounds like.  They start off with a big statement in Radioactive, which blends a throbbing backbeat with delicate acoustic guitars and deals lyrically with facing the apocalypse.  We want people to hear that song and feel empowered, Reynolds explains.  Meanwhile, the delicacy of tracks like Demons balances the album's expansiveness with a sense of human intimacy.  The album title came together very organically, Reynolds recalls of the records overall theme.  We all sat in a room and wrote out what the band and sound of the album means to us.  We all deal with our own demons and anxieties but we find that nothing calms the mind more than creating.  Many of the songs on the album were written late into the night, and some of the lyrical themes came from dreams I've had, even some nightmares. So when the title Night Visions came up, it just seemed to fit perfectly.  We hope it inspires other to create, and push through their own struggles. --- Historically, there's a progression that bands usually follow before their sound goes full-on arena rock.  Things will start small and gritty, and then as the fame and crowds build, the sound changes to match the massiveness of the venues.  However, on their debut album, Imagine Dragons buck tradition and swing straight for the cheap seats, doing away with generations of sonic evolution in favor of the huge, arena-made sound of Night Visions.  Dramatic and sweeping, the Las Vegas band works in the same vein as pop giants Coldplay, offering up track after track of hooky and emotional midtempo jams.  While a move like this might seem overly ambitious for a freshman band, Imagine Dragons are able to pull the sound off, with songs like the already ubiquitous, seemingly soundtrack-ready "It's Time" having no trouble worming their way into whatever part of the brain it is that likes to trap songs against listeners' will.  The problem is, while the band's electronically reinforced sound is definitely big, it sometimes feels as though it lacks depth.  Despite this, "Every Night" will certainly have some listeners unconsciously reaching for a lighter to wave in the air before they realize what they're doing, and it's exactly these kinds of surface pleasures that we turn to pop music for in the first place.  What this means is that even though Imagine Dragons might have skipped a few steps along the way to their arena sound, Night Visions is still an album that, at least for a few minutes at a time, will make everyday life seem just a little bit bigger. ~ Gregory Heaney Shipping

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