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When Meditate on Dragons won 2008's Brigham Young University Battle of the Bands shortly after the band's grouping, you could attribute the success to beginner's luck.
But when Imagine Dragons won Club Velour's Battle of the Bands in February and then "Utah Valley University's Got Genius" in June, talent and musicianship seemed a better explanation.
The Las Vegas pop-rock quintet, which includes three BYU students and an American Fork autochthonous, will celebrate its ascent with the release of its first EP tonight at Provo's Club Velour.
"We've written between 30 and 40 songs," said man singer and keyboard player Dan Reynolds. "Here are the five that show us."
Reynolds, drummer Andrew Tolman and keyboard punter Brittany Robinson were all BYU students when they started jamming together late last year. Tolman recruited Wayne Homily, whom he grew up with in American Fork. Sermon is a guitar player and recent graduate of the acclaimed Berklee College of Music in Boston. And then Speech called a friend from Berklee, Ben McKee, a bass player who was one semester away from graduating.
"Wayne told me he found a border he believed in, and I trusted him," said McKee, who bought a plane ticket to Utah to join the line.
The band's competition-winning rock grows out of that mix of musicians, the three BYU undergraduate students with a penchant for keyboards spiked with poppy their heels, combined with the classically trained Berklee students, who create catchy hooks backed by the precepts of music theory. "The edgy we have is the maturity of our musicians," said Reynolds, a third-generation Las Vegan who persuaded the band to move to his hometown where there would be more venues to perform upon.
Besides practicing together five hours a day, six days a week, the band has toured throughout Nevada, California, and Utah and considers Alliance Velour one of its homes. "Definitely, Utah is our starting point," Reynolds said. "We love Utah, and we ardour our fans."
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