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They all seem to blend into the bland mix of 2018 charts music. The other thirteen tracks are not really worth mentioning in particular. Dan Reynolds voice is fierce and powerful and gives the songs an epic twenty-thousand-teenagers-singing-along touch. I can already hear their Hip Hop influenced synth-rock blasting from the speakers of every single store. The opener “Natural”, and the preleased single “Machine” are the most promising of the fifteen tracks. And just like expected Origin is not short of mass-market rock anthems, but disappointingly unoriginal. Yet aside form catchy choruses and the mandatory “woah-ohs” the Dragons song writing skills are limited. Looking at the numbers, Imagine Dragons are a huge commercial success and regularly pack huge stadium arenas. A mixture that might sound intriguing, but the outcome is a messy and uncreative sounding fourth studio album co-written by Mattman & Robin, who turn Origins into just another one of the Swifts, Grandes, and what’s-her-name-again charts tracks.Īfter their debut album Night Visions, which was lauded by critics and won several music awards, the following Imagine Dragons albums are mostly compilations of dull pop tracks filling in the gaps between the two pop hits on each album. They fuse genres from Pop, to EDM and Hip Hop on one LP, and strike up a wide angle of important topics like world peace, depression and love. Las Vegas four-piece Imagine Dragons are probably best known for their incredibly overplayed songs “Radioactive” and “Thunder”.