Imagine Dragons dive into the darkness with brave new album

NEW YORK (AP) — The caller Imagine Dragons medium screen depicts a antheral falling done space, gravity mildly pulling him down. Inside is the dependable of a antheral grappling with his ain fall. Lead singer, songwriter and lyricist Dan Reynolds has poured heartache, calamity and his struggles with sobriety into the raw, confessional and searing “Mercury — Act 1.” It’s a brave medium from a set refusing to retreat into past hits. The 13-track postulation uses Reynolds’ falsetto to large effect. His lyrics ache with a representation of a antheral who has mislaid friends to cancer, had his idiosyncratic beingness illness and battled slump and addiction. Reynolds says “Mercury — Act 1″ “is chiefly astir taking enactment and rebuilding.”