That they’d rather chase prolificacy than purity. It almost seems that the Dragons want to declare, with the release of a full album this soon, that there’s really no end to their genre-mixing skills. “I think it’s awesome to get new music faster,” said drummer Daniel Platzman in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone India at the launch. Origins might come hot on the heels of Evolve””in less than year””but the Dragons maintain that they felt the time was right. It’s no surprise then that the 2018 year-end Billboard Top Rock Albums features their first two albums, Evolve (2017) and Night Visions, at the number 1 and 4 spots, respectively. The kind of material that is so resolutely anthemic in music and lyrics that it almost always outlives the standard success graph. Since then, the band has consistently ruled the top spots, releasing material at just the right intervals lest fans move over. For a band that was still finding its groove, by 2013, they climbed up to the number 3 spot with “Radioactive,” enjoying the company of serial hitmakers Macklemore, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry et al. If their debut single “It’s Time” (featured on the 2011 eponymous EP and on their first studio album Night Visions in 2012) struggled to chart in the year of its release, by the next year it had already entered the Billboard Top 100 Songs year-end list at number 91. The Dragons debuted their euphoric, aphorism-loaded brand of rock almost a decade ago, at a time when the genre’s rapidly diminishing command on global charts was already a hard reality. Performing a career-spanning set list amidst their biggest supporters, the band proved why they’ve become the de facto resurrectors of rock today. The four-member band launched their fourth album, Origins, at a special show on their home turf of Las Vegas recently. But that’s probably not surprising when your global fan following runs into millions. In the Imagine Dragons scheme of things, even an intimate invite-only concert features no less than a thousand people.
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