X Ambassadors would later be used on the soundtrack for "The Host". The band signed a music publishing deal in 2012 with SONGS Music Publishing. The band started a Kickstarter account to shoot a video for the lead single, "Unconsolable", which would be re-recorded later. The group was noticed by Imagine Dragons while frontman Dan Reynolds was sick in the hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. Reynolds heard an acoustic version of "Unconsolable" on 96X WROX-FM and asked Interscope to sign the band as soon as possible. X Ambassadors released their debut major label EP, "Love Songs Drug Songs" in 2013. The EP included
Origins (Imagine Dragons album) the album a mixed review, stating "Reynolds has a story to tell, but the music fails to be the ideal delivery system." "The Guardian" gave the album a negative review, stating that "the most streamed rock band in the world may want us to believe that they are angry philosophers, but the reality doesn't change a gilt-edged mainstream formula." "The Irish Times" was also strongly critical, lambasting the album as a "muddled and incoherent mess with all of the best intentions". "NME" also gave a negative review, stating "scattershot and uninspired, 'Origins', the fourth album from the bafflingly popular Imagine