It usually takes me a few hours - maybe six hours - but I typically don't ever let a song go past a day to be finished in a demo format. And then I'll express it as quickly as I can. I've written thousands of songs at this point that nobody hears. I just want to get this out of my head because it's a very rewarding process for me for no reason. I don't want anything that slows me down. The faster I can get out of my head onto the paper, the better it is for me. And then it’s about how quickly I can get that out. And the melody will come to me as I'm creating that. Maybe it's a rhythm, maybe it's a chord progression.
So, then I'll sit down and start to create some sort of soundscape. It's always from an emotional place for me. And then I will say, "Oh, wow, this is how I'm feeling." It's always feel. I might pull up a piano keyboard and play around with chords until I think something strikes a chord with me (no pun intended). I've never had a poetry book or anything like that. Along the way, they walk us through the Live Set for the album’s lead single “Wrecked”, produced entirely in Ableton Live.įor each of you, what is your typical starting point when writing a song?ĭan: I typically get on and I have no idea what I'm going to do at any given moment. Dan and Wayne spoke with us about the creation of their new album, from sketching in their home studios to shaping the final product with Rubin. 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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