- 2024-05-24
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MUSIC
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Imagine Dragons Releases New Song “Nice To Meet You”
Back in April, American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, consisting of Dan Reynolds (lead vocals), Wayne Sermon (guitars) and Ben McKee (bass), announced their sixth studio album “LOOM” would be released on June 28, 2024 via Kidinakorner and Interscope Records.
The album is their first LP in two years since the 2022 two-part studio album “Mercury - Acts 1 & 2” and comprises a 9-track.
The band frontman Dan Reynolds said of the album, “Working on this record was a rollercoaster. The beauty of songwriting is that it has always simply been my journal. It has documented decades of my journey through this strange life. And I've been lucky enough to create it with my best friends in a band and have you share it with us.”
From the album, the band released the second single called “Nice To Meet You” on May 24, 2024, following the first single “Eyes Closed”.
The track was written by Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Mattias Larsson, Robin Lennart Fredriksson, and Wayne Sermon. Produced by Mattman & Robin.
The accompanying music video was directed by Matt Eastin, who also directed the previous video for “Eyes Closed”.- Dan Reynolds told Genius about the song, “It was actually the last day of the whole record. And we came into the studio and we were just like let's just have fun today. Something about that freedom made me not think about like what is dragons?, what do Dragon's do? It was like make a song that I like. This song has a certain dance tempo like dragons are not really, it's dragons are more like emo like I'm upset. I'm angry, angsty kid. And I was in a joyful state to which I'm a very high low person. So I was like, well let's take advantage of this very high moment. During that day, we celebrated everybody was in the city of the guys were there and everybody we all we had a cheers we're like yeah, we finished the record. And there happened to be a room mic that was on. When we were finishing the mix, we were like, Hey, that room mic was on. Let's listen to that and get talking from it. And then we found the moment we cheers and we put that on the second chorus. If you listen close from the second chorus hits, it's like a party. it's like, 'Hey,' that was a real moment of us celebrating the end of the record. So it was cool to kind of put it on the song in that way.”
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Dan Reynolds told Associated Press about the album's cover art, “You can't really tell if it's a sunset or a sunrise, and then there are two people kind of separated standing in front of it. That really kind of sums it up thematically when I listen to it, Is the beginning of something new, or is this the end of something? And the sunset and the sunrise always kind of feels that way to me. It could be either/or.”
The band embarks on “LOOM World Tour” in support of the album. The tour kicks off at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, NJ on July 30, and will conclude at Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA on October 23, 2024.
Learn more about tour dates, here. - source : Apple Music
