Imagine Dragons is the band you love to hate. Coming from the bad Las Vegas, musically in your face and a little rude, but above all very successful with the young pop audience, who mainly consume their music digitally. It is not without reason that Imagine Dragons is the most streamed rock band in the world, with 37.5 million listeners per month on Spotify. Ten million more than . 'If you always
… thought Imagine Dragons was a fake rock band, then you can have fun now,' Muziekweb wrote in the summer of 2017 about the third album (1.6 billion streams), which first flirted with r & b, hip-hop and electropop. At Origins, that line is already uncontrollably continued eighteen months later. Apart from a surprising breakbeat in the song Digital (hint-hint), we hear the well-known formula on Origins: distorted guitars, thumping electro beats, the typical half-scanned vocals of frontman Dan Reynolds and of course those instant choruses. No, it is not all very subtle, but let's be honest; whose childhood heroes were they? (RME)more
