- 2025-06-29
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MUSIC
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X Ambassadors Announces Reimagined Version of Debut Album “VHS(X) [Rerecorded]”, Shares New Single “Unsteady (Rerecorded)”
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album “VHS”, American pop-rock band X Ambassadors, consisting of Sam Nelson Harris (vocals/guitar), Casey Harris (keyboards), Adam Levin (drums) and Russ Flynn (guitar), has announced a reimagined version “VHS(X) [Rerecorded]” will be released on August 29, 2025.
The debut album was released in 2015 via KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records and featured 20 tracks.
The record reached No. 7 on the US Billboard 200 and went Platinum in the United States.
From the album, the band released a reimagined version of “Unsteady” as “Unsteady (Rerecorded)” on June 27, 2025.
The track was written by A. Grant, Adam Levin, Casey Harris, Noah Feldshuh, and Sam Nelson Harris. Produced by X Ambassadors.
The accompanying music video was directed by Sam Nelson Harris.- The band said of the song, “The most valuable lesson I've learned about being an artist, I learned when writing Unsteady. I had this great, simple hook written but I didn't know what to do for the verses. I played it for Alex, our producer, and asked him what he thought I should try and write about. He thought for a second, then asked me what my relationship was like with my parents. I thought - who's going to care about me whining about my parents' divorce? And- here's the key- I was embarrassed to write about it. But I wrote it anyway. I later realized I was making the choice to be vulnerable. And vulnerability is what this whole thing is all about.”
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They said of the album, “It's a rare thing to be in a band that's been together as long as we have. We've been together for almost 20 years. This album was made, conceived, and released 10 years ago but we had already been busting our asses for almost a decade prior to that. When the door finally was opened for us with 'Renegades' it was a scramble to finish an album and get it out. VHS was mostly made on the road- in the back of our van, backstage in green rooms, bathrooms, hotel rooms, wherever we could steal a moment. It was chaotic, it was piece-meal. To be honest, we couldn't appreciate a single moment of it because it was all moving so fast. So it's been such a blessing to be able to revisit it and celebrate these songs and the people we were when we made them.” - source : Apple Music
