"At some point while listening to Night Visions, jotting down notes for this review, I scribbled, “The Killers.” I was mentally comparing Imagine Dragons’ ambitious arena-ready sound to another well-known indie act from the Las Vegas area. Turns out the similarities don’t end there.

Just as Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is an outspoken Mormon, so two members of Imagine Dragons hail from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well. “We’re not a religious band,” Mormon guitarist Wayne Sermon told bestoflasvegas.com in a 2012 interview. “[Singer] Dan [Reynolds] and I are religious people, and the other members are agnostic, so I think we come out somewhere in the middle.”

That middle looks like this: This debut deliberates over spiritual issues of sin, demons, fallenness, heaven and hell while alternately flirting with and fighting off the mire of melancholy"

- pluggedin.com