It feels churlish to knock a band who drop balloons on an ecstatic audience during the digital calypso of Underdog. They seem both humble and completely unstoppable.
In the language of smartphone app development, Imagine Dragons were "born global", ready to be played from Seattle to Sydney. It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs. On Cha-Ching (Till We Grow Older), they even lift the vocal hook from Beyonce's Crazy in Love. They have successfully assimilated the hushed American gothic of Arcade Fire, the democratising hoedown of Mumford & Sons, and the polite triumphalism of Coldplay. On the swooping, self-dramatising Hear Me, they out-Killer the Killers, who turn out to be just one of the bands on the Imagine Dragons hitlist.
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