The bouncy pop tune "It's Time" is charismatic and inviting upon first listen. The band really does to the entire indie rock genre justice and create something a little better than the rest here. I don't know if they will become household names but I sure hope they do because Night Visions is a very strong album. Cold Play might come to mind when listening to the album but honestly, I think this is better than Cold Play and deserves much more attention.
Night Visions is packed with magnetic hooks and massive drum architectures, making for a well-muscled percussive record of hits-in-waiting. The limitations of character within the forest of the songs reels in the grandiosity of ambition, for a balanced affair through a wild ride of variety.
Track number eleven, “Nothing Left To Say” is a whopping nine minutes long, well, with a little gem entitled “Rocks” hidden at the end. It’s definitely not a track to miss. The first part is a song anyone can relate to-that feeling of wanting to fix things with someone but everything is beyond repair. After six minutes, I didn’t even realize the song had lasted that long because I was just enjoying listening to it. The first part slowly fades out and we hear about thirty seconds of silence and as soon as you think the song is over-it’s not, and I was totally OK with that.
This full length debut album does not disappoint. Dan Reynolds heart filled powerful vocals are what keep this album fluid. If the intensity and passion that translates to this recording is even half of what they give live they will easily be at the head of game real quick. For all the group's musical mastery, it's the flourishes courtesy of producer Alex Da Kid that make individual tracks stand out: the mandolin hook of It's Time, the jaunty whistle of On Top of the World, the burbling guitar in Demons.
Those creative touches may seem like small details, but it's that imagination that gives these Dragons teeth.
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