
The debut single from “Evolve,” the energetic “Believer,” came out in late January, but it wasn’t until a plum placement during a Super Bowl commercial that the track, and subsequent album, took off. It was actually the most fun we’ve had since the early days.” The whole process making it was no-stress. Everyone calls them out immediately and it doesn’t lead to authenticity, which is really what we’re going for. “We’re really comfortable with ourselves, more so now than ever, and ‘Evolve’ is really a celebration of that. “Specifically, I think the thing that makes ‘Evolve’ special is that it marks a coming of age,” Platzman says of the band’s third album. After releasing two blockbuster albums - “Night Visions” and “Smoke + Mirrors” - the members went back to the drawing board to try to replicate their former success while also growing as artists. In the past year, the band went through a rebirth of sorts. I was a music nerd growing up, and I would have definitely done that if Twitter was around. What really blows us away is when we have our amazingly talented fans tweeting us covers of our songs. “To release our music and have it be such a global thing, it’s incredible.

“This is all very surreal and definitely nothing that I ever expected it to be,” Reynolds says when he looks back at the band’s meteoric rise.
