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Inside Imagine Dragons’ 'Loom': Dan Reynolds On How A Sense Of Foreboding Led To The Band's Most Colorful Album
From left: Imagine Dragons' Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds and Wayne Sermon
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Imagine Dragons' sixth release, ‘Loom,’ is filled with melodic soundscapes featuring big choruses that conjure deep feeling. It's exactly how Dan Reynolds wanted it; the frontman details the inspirations behind the nine-track LP.
David McPherson
|GRAMMYs/Jun 27, - pm
For a dozen years now,Imagine Dragonshave delivered melodic anthems that have resonated with audiences from Idaho to Italy. Whether you call the band’s sound arena rock, power pop or formulaic does not matter. Whatdoesis the effect these soundscapes have on the masses, album after album.
The Las Vegas trio ofDan Reynolds, Ben McKeeandWayne Sermonmay divide critics and peers, but there is no denying they are master craftsmen of earworms. The GRAMMY-winning group has served hit after Billboard-topping hit,racking upsales of 74 million album equivalents, 65 million digital songs and over billion streams.
Frontman and chief lyricist Reynolds despises labels and says conversations about genre are "trite." And, anyway, the songwriter does not make music with fans or criti
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Imagine Dragons Dan Reynolds Knows His Band Isn’t for Everyone: You Either Love It or You Hate It
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has faced a lot of pain and turmoil since the group released their most recent LP, Mercury – Act 2, back in His relationship with Nico Vega lead singer Aja Volkman, the mother of his four children, ended in divorce after 13 years of marriage. His drummer Daniel Platzman took an indefinite hiatus from the group to focus on his health, reducing Imagine Dragons to a trio. And he continued to deal with chronic pain caused by the inflammatory bone disease ankylosing spondylitis.
Reynolds channeled all of this into the new Imagine Dragons album, Loom, out now. I wrote this record when a lot of change was occurring in my life, Reynolds tells Rolling Stone. Its years of journal entries told with melody and production.
Those journal entries were turned into bombastic, stadium-ready anthems with a lot of help from his remaining two bandmates, guitarist Wayne Sermon and bassist Ben McKee, along with the Swedish songwriter-producer duo Mattman & Robin, who have worked with Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Britney Spears.
The duo helped them comb through more than possible songs. Theyd say, We want it