![]() ![]() There are moments, too, where Imagine Dragons sounds so downright lame - including “Friction,” a ghastly mash-up of Middle Eastern riffs and warmed-over rap-metal rhymes - that you simply can’t believe Reynolds is working to impress anyone but himself. Yet for all the calculation you can hear on “Smoke + Mirrors,” Reynolds also comes off as hopelessly sincere - a thinker in real conflict with the carnival of ambition and superficiality that his existence has become, and a frontman with no other forum in which to conduct that battle than his music. ![]() Working with producer Alex Da Kid, Reynolds and his mates blow out familiar styles with bigger-is-better arrangements, as in “I Bet My Life,” a blast of digitized Mumford & Sons arena folk, and the hammering title track, which sounds like Coldplay after a course of human growth hormone. And here the package is craftier than ever. ![]()
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