NYC’s indie-rock trio VHS Collection have returned with their highly anticipated album, Night Drive. Known for their distinct sound that marries ambient synths, alt-pop, and indie-rock, VHS Collection’s Night Drive is a cruising, top-down kind of album chock full of soaring anthems and back-seat bangers.
Night Drive captures the spirit of that titular activity: its liminality, its kinetic excitement, its intoxicating potential and power, its hope and mystery. Each of the record’s 10 tracks does this in their own way—sometimes loud and brash, sometimes quiet and calm. But the feeling is just as visceral and real, as serious and limitless as four tires streaking across concrete under the hum of streetlights. In a time of perpetual uncertainty and disconnection, Night Drive is a return to one of the simple, critical pieces of our lived experience via driving drums, stratospheric synths, soaring vocals, and anthemic choruses built to sprint through the night sky.
Says guitarist and producer Conor Cook, “Driving at night on some long highway, blasting music by yourself, or with friends, or with your girlfriend. That has always been one of the most important musical experiences for me. There’s nothing quite like those moments. That’s when you really appreciate the importance of a great song.”
“There’s something magical that happens when it’s nighttime, you’ve got music on, and you’re driving,” adds vocalist James Bohannon. That feeling of unhindered possibility is central to the record’s ultimate theme: safeguarding hope amid turmoil. “We’ll make it work, we’ll figure it out,” says Bohannon. “The ups and downs, the obstacles, we’ll persevere and figure it out. We gotta keep on trucking.”