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It's finally here, an excellent 360 degree video from one of the best Imagine Dragons songs ever and the best Evolve single. Just watch and you'll know how awesome it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcNcOnIkQQU

Thunder is annoying to listen to, and many Imagine Dragons will back me up on that. It doesn't fit with the album, it doesn't have very good instrumentation, and that chorus makes it impossible to listen to it for more than twice in a row without spazzing out and rolling around on the floor in pain. This remix builds on that kind of instrumentation, developing it more but making it so spasmodic that it actually makes listenable in more than occasional bursts. The K.Flay collaboration is relatively unexpected, as Imagine dragons rarely does collaborations, but was also a bit unsurprising because K.Flay is touring with Imagine Dragons in North America and that suggests a certain level closeness. K.Flay performs very well in this song, elevating the song with some pop-rap that helps vary the song and fits in nicely with its emotional and fast paced lyrics. One major issue I have is this: where does it fit in their discography? Is it meant to propel the slowly climbing Thunder...

I 'm not so sure about this song. Just like Ice Cream, it's pretty dark but continues into a much more cynical vein, backed by instrumentals reminiscent of AWOLNATION(of Sail fame). But unlike Ice Cream, it seems overly angry and dark, and crosses the very important line from catchy emotive pop rock into what AWOLNATION also runs into: its so dark and cynical, you don't even want to listen. For a band that's released two stellar singles in a row, this one can only be described as middling, and lets the others down. The only major good thing about it is its excellent transition between defiant and loud, and piano and angst driven lower bits. Being that this is the third single with themed artwork by a new-ish band on a record label debut with nothing longer than four minutes to their name, this should foreshadow a debut EP, if not an album. Hopefully the EP/album will be made mainly of good songs like American Dreamer and Ice Cream, which would definitely make this a...

I know this comes a bit late, but I had a lot of stuff to do over the weekend and not much time. I also couldn't complete any reviews, so I'll be doing those shortly. So without further ado, my weekly playlist: 1- Talk By Coldplay 2- Birds By Coldplay 3- Something To Believe In By Young The Giant 4- Ice Cream By Kyd The Band 5- Feel Something By Kyd The Band 6- Mouth Of The River By Imagine Dragons 7- I Don't Know Why By Imagine Dragons 8- Feel It Still By Portugal. The Man  

I haven't listened to much U2, but I've listened to enough to know that they're past their prime in popularity and ability(a recent video showed The Edge messing up Where The Streets Have No Name as he played it for the thousandth time while looking defeated), are prone to falling to the same old tropes, but also have excellent instrumentation. This new single comes after two records that were relative flops, a Joshua Tree anniversary tour, and two song off of "Songs Of Experience" played live but not released, The Little Things That Give You Away and The Blackout. This song does have pretty good lyrics, is well structured and sounds a lot cleaner than other U2 tracks. But that cleanness comes at the price that it doesn't really focus on U2's strong suit which is a good guitar riff, and falls prey to sounding dancey and poppy. The track also repeats the same line too many times(which happens to be the title), which works better than other songs but is stil...

When I heard that Wonderful Wonderful was coming out this week, I thought that it was the full album, not just the title track. The Man, the first single for the forthcoming album, was a swaggering testosterone fueled pop rock blast, that suitably entered the top ten in all major US "rock" charts. After that, Run For Cover, another stadium rock song, this time with a more varied style, also charted, but lower.\ This newest song also continues in the arena-sized vein, but takes an unexpected turn. It's certainly a lot more experimental, with muscular guitars weaving in and out of an electronic haze that's driven by powerful drumbeats. The song gets so gigantic it exhausts itself, seeming to get so big that you can't tell of any difference in its rafter shaking power. The song seems to hang in the air and reverberate, while Brandon Flowers sings almost gospel seeming lyrics about an orphan listening to a shell. Overall, this song is okay but seems too experimental...

I never really liked Thirty Seconds To Mars. They were suggested as similar to Imagine Dragons, so I listened to them only to be met with overblown bombastic stadium rock garbage that could never decide on at least one instrument other than drums to have in more than one song in a row. The video for This Is War is absolutely idiotic, saying the video is about peace and then showing a marine screaming and firing random bursts(at least he wasn't spinning in circles). Despite all this, Beautiful Lie is an actual good song, with its focus mainly on guitar.                                                                Background aside, Walk On Water itself is okay. It's still overblown, and at least mixes swaggering verses with the gigantic gospel choir aided chorus that has nothing to do with the song's supposed call for political...