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Loom (2024)

Where the lyrics of Loom take you, and where it was really made.

Loom is the first Imagine Dragons album made without drummer Daniel Platzman, who had only announced an indefinite hiatus when the record was being made.

Key places

Conway Studios, Los Angeles (2024)

Recording site Conway Recording Studios — Conway Studios in Los Angeles is one of the four studios where Loom was recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Westlake Studios, West Hollywood (2024)

Recording site Westlake Recording Studios — Westlake Studios in West Hollywood is listed among the recording locations of Loom. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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House Mouse Studios, Stockholm (2024)

Recording site Master Plan — House Mouse Studios in Stockholm is listed among the recording locations of Loom, shown at city-center level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Loom: sixth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons
• Released 28 June 2024 through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records
• Standard version: nine tracks, the fewest on any Imagine Dragons album to date
• Follows the two-part Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 (2022)
• Produced by the band and longtime collaborators Mattman & Robin
• First release as a trio after drummer Daniel Platzman announced an indefinite hiatus in March 2023
• Platzman departed the band in August 2024

Background

• Earlier albums: the band entered the studio with 100-200 demos and narrowed them down
• For this album, the band entered with 150 demos written during the Mercury tour
• Producers Mattman & Robin suggested starting over from scratch
• The band wrote and recorded 30 songs over six months, the smallest amount of material for an Imagine Dragons studio album
• The album name comes from the video game of the same name; Reynolds quoted it as his introduction to music at six years old
• Main theme is new beginnings, paralleling Reynolds' divorce, his dating of actress Minka Kelly, and Platzman's absence

Recording

• Recorded at MXM Studios, Conway Studios, Westlake Studios and House Mouse Studios (Stockholm)
• Engineers: Jeremy Lertola at MXM, John Armstrong at Conway, Greg Eliason at Westlake
• Mixed by Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach
• Mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound in New York

Cover

• The cover image can be read as either a sunset or a sunrise
• Reynolds said in an AP interview that the image asks whether something is beginning or ending

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Imagine Dragons is an American pop rock band formed in 2008 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman at Brigham Young University in 2008; the two recruited other members to form the band.
• The band's lineup changed several times; Wayne Sermon and Ben McKee completed the core line-up by 2009.
• The band released their first EPs in Las Vegas and signed with Interscope Records in November 2011.

Members

• The current lineup consists of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, and bassist Ben McKee.
• Daniel Platzman joined as drummer in 2011 and was later absent from the band; Andrew Tolman served as touring drummer.

Career

• Debut album Night Visions (2012) peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200; the single "Radioactive" topped the Hot Rock Songs chart for 23 weeks.
• Smoke + Mirrors (2015) became the band's first album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
• Evolve (2017) produced the chart-topping singles "Believer", "Thunder", and "Whatever It Takes".
• Origins (2018) debuted at No. 2 in the US; Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 (2022) and Loom (2024) followed.
• The band has sold more than 74 million albums and won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for "Radioactive".
• Critical reception of their albums has been mixed, though the band remains commercially successful.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: average 67 from 4 reviews, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'
• First time one of the band's albums received a positive Metacritic score
• AllMusic (Neil Z. Yeung): positive review; described it as a pseudo 'return to form' and one of the band's most satisfying and immediate sets to date
• Rolling Stone (Jon Dolan): said the album finds the band piloting some musical and personal transitions
• The Arts Desk (Tom Carr): said the album pleases without blazing any new trails
• Clash (Robin Murray): mixed review, summarizing it as a succinct if somewhat unfulfilling return

Records

• Debuted at number 22 on the US Billboard 200 with 28,000 album-equivalent units
• First album by the band not to peak in the top ten of the chart
• First album by the band without a song on the Billboard Hot 100

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The standard version has nine tracks, so the album is the shortest studio set the band has released to date
• The four-door promotion split fans into three groups, Croyants, Guerriers and Rêveurs, sorted by their earlier music preferences
• The Croyants, the winning group, received snippets of three new songs
• A fifth door referencing the Eyes Closed video confirmed the album title LOOM on 22 April
• A remix of Eyes Closed featuring J Balvin was released on 3 May
• Remixes of Take Me to the Beach featured Baker Boy, Ernia, Jungeli and Ado

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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