Imagine Dragons the album. The band has described this album as a sister album to their previous work "Evolve". On October 31, 2018, Imagine Dragons released their third single off the album, "Machine". Lastly, on November 6, 2018, Imagine Dragons released their fourth single of the album, "Bad Liar". Imagine Dragons' musical style has mainly been described as alternative rock, pop rock, indie rock, electronic rock, dance-pop electropop, pop, and arena rock. Their music also has some influences of folk, R&B, hip hop and EDM. Dan Reynolds cites Arcade Fire, Nirvana, Muse, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Coldplay, Linkin Park, Harry Nilsson, and
Next to Me (Imagine Dragons song) is some of the first times that I've really explored diving into my mind and musicality and sonicality of romance." He regarded it as "something everybody can relate to", which is the "feeling like you are going to fail sometimes in a relationship and the true value of a relationship is what happens then". An accompanying short film for the song was released on March 13, 2018. The video stars the lead singer, Dan Reynolds, and his wife, Aja Volkman. In the video, Aja leaves Dan due to his problems, leading to him attempting to sell his wedding ring. The