On their latest album, Mercury - Act1, Dragons enlisted the help of reducer-extraordinaire Rick Rubin to challenge the band’s songwriting at his historic Shangri-La studio in Malibu. Ostensibly labelled as an alternative rock band (Wayne clarifies: “I’ve always seen us as more of a collective of music makers and producers”), the group whole-heartedly embraces the studio as an instrument, with much of their sound owing to their expertise of production techniques using Ableton Live. Over the next 10 years, they would craft a sound with Alex that would marry their love of hip-hop with contemporary trends in American electronic music to help them dominate the Billboard charts and catapult them to stages everywhere from the Super Bowl to the Champions League. Their breakout success came with their album Night Visions, executive produced by hip-hop producer Alex da Kid. The band’s core group of instrumentalists – Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman – are trained jazz musicians and graduates of Berklee College of Music. That willingness to reject convention has underpinned the success of Imagine Dragons throughout their career.
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