Imagine Dragons - Evolve

Evolve in the third studio album by American rock band Imagine Dragons, originally released in September 2012 via Interscope Records and KIDinaKORNER.

Imagine Dragons formed in Los Vegas, Nevada comprising Dan Reynolds (vocals), Wayne Sermon (guitars), Ben McKee (bass, keyboards) and Daniel Platzman (drums).

The band first gained chart success and exposure with the release of their debut single “It’s Time” which was featured on their 2012 EP Continued Silence. Since making their full-length debut with 2012’s multi-platinum Night Visions, Imagine Dragons have drawn worldwide adoration for their anthemic yet moody style of alternative rock.

On their third album Evolve, the Grammy Award-winning band shift perspective and take on a brighter but more layered emotional outlook.   In bringing the lead single “Believer” to life, Imagine Dragons joined forces with Swedish production duo Mattman & Robin and carved out a cleaner sound than they have used before.

In a departure from the largely self-produced Night Visions and its 2015 follow-up Smoke + Mirrors, Evolve finds the band working closely with a variety of producers, Mattman & Robin, Joel Little (best known for helming the production of Lorde’s Pure Heroine), Alex de Kid, Tim Randolph and Jayson DeZuzio. 

Throughout Evolve, Imagine Dragons find unlikely glory in intense self-reflection. On “Whatever It Takes,” the band turns self-doubt into a soaring, shimmering epic driven by heavy beats and Reynolds’s rapid-fire flow. Another moment of reckoning, “Thunder” brings waves of majestic harmonies and warped vocal effects to Reynolds’s recounting of his life’s journey so far.  

The album received a mixed reception from music critics upon release and has reached #2 on the US Billboard 200, #3 on the UK and #4 on the Australian Albums charts.

This album is on 180 gram heavyweight black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in Europe via KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records.