{"id":2253,"date":"2025-06-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ivy-first-lp-in-14-years\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:00:00","slug":"ivy-first-lp-in-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ivy-first-lp-in-14-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy\u2019s First LP In 14 Years Has Adam Schlesinger On Every Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/01\/Ivy-Press-Photo-by-Robert-Weinstein-min-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1329\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Beloved New York-reared indie trio Ivy were inactive for the better part of eight years before group member Adam Schlesinger died of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020. Since then, surviving husband-and-wife duo Dominque Durand and Andy Chase have paid tribute to Schlesinger in a moving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8xISJVl4lQ\" target=\"_blank\">video retrospective<\/a> and overseen several back catalog reissues, but there was no new Ivy album on the horizon \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Durand, Chase and longtime multi-instrumentalist Bruce Driscoll have combed through their demo archives to surface the previously unreleased material on <em>Traces of You<\/em>, which will emerge Sept. 5 through Bar\/None Records. Each of the 10 tracks offers contributions from Schlesinger, including lead single \u201cSay You Will,\u201d which was built from a 2009 demo where he played bass and keyboard. R.E.M.\/Atoms for Peace drummer Joey Waronker plays on the finished version.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/jeff-buckley-documentary-coming-to-theaters-in-august\/\">Jeff Buckley Documentary Coming To Theaters In August<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/island-time-from-dance-floors-to-yacht-rock-the-ting-tings-ride-a-new-wave\/\">Island Time: From Dance Floors to Yacht Rock, the Ting Tings Ride A New Wave<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/the-head-and-the-heart-tour\/\">The Head &amp; The Heart Turn The Corner On \u2018Aperture\u2019 Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With occasional flashes of mainstream success but enduring fan appeal, Ivy are perhaps best known for their 1997 sophomore album <em>Apartment Life<\/em>, from which \u201cThis Is the Day\u201d popped up in the classic \u201990s comedy\u00a0<em>There\u2019s Something About Mary<\/em>\u00a0and the vibrant, moody \u201cThe Best Thing\u201d garnered modern rock airplay. The trio, who formed in 1994 but slowed down in the 2000s while Schlesinger devoted more time to Fountains of Wayne, last released an album in 2011 with <em>After Hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe songs here were all unused and abandoned ideas from the various albums and film scores we worked on,\u201d the band members tell SPIN of the <em>Traces of You<\/em> material. \u201cWe\u2019d never released any parts of them.\u201d The resulting music is amongst the most diverse Ivy have ever released, from the bass- and keyboard-driven \u201cFragile People\u201d and the wistful, undulating title track to \u201cThe Great Unknown,\u201d which has an almost Garbage-y, electro feel and the tender, acoustic guitar-led \u201cHate That It\u2019s True.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Band members say album opener \u201cThe Midnight Hour\u201d was the most complete of the fragments, as \u201cthe first verse and chorus were sung back when they were originally demoed. Adam\u2019s bass was there and Andy had played all the guitar and keys. The second verse, the bridge and the \u2018feel the rush\u2019 vocal hook were all new additions when we got together with Bruce. What\u2019s amazing is that Dominique\u2019s vocals between verse one and two are seamless, as if no time had passed.\u201d Schlesinger\u2019s Fountains of Wayne cohorts Brian Young (drums) and Jody Porter (guitar) later added parts to the recording.<\/p>\n<p>Ivy found themselves slipping back into some old work habits during the process, but thankfully, with ear-pleasing results. \u201cDominique disliked the existing idea for \u2018Heartbreak,\u2019 which was Andy on guitar and keys and Adam on bass with the main part of the song you hear at the introduction,\u201d they say. \u201cBy the time we added the horn parts, the chorus chords and found depressing lyrics to offset the happy sound of the song, she came around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what fans will enjoy most about hearing Schlesinger\u2019s work on <em>Traces of You<\/em>, Ivy\u2019s members answer, \u201con one song, you\u2019ll hear Adam on bass, the next on acoustic, the next on keys, the next he supplied a part of the melody with mumbled lyrics (which we deciphered and completed). His contributions were always gems and we never had to make them work with what we were doing. They were always essential to the idea, or we wouldn\u2019t work on the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"nfKUCXQVvWU\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-is-the-track-list-for-traces-of-you\">Here is the track list for <em>Traces of You<\/em>:<\/h2>\n<p>The Midnight Hour<br \/>Fragile People<br \/>Mystery Girl<br \/>Traces of You<br \/>The Great Unknown<br \/>Say You Will<br \/>Heartbreak<br \/>Lose It All<br \/>Wasting Time<br \/>Hate That It\u2019s True<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved New York-reared indie trio Ivy were inactive for the better part of eight years before group member Adam Schlesinger died of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1353,1354,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-schlesinger","category-ivy","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}