Ivy Announce 25th Anniversary Reissue of Long Distance, Share Previously Unreleased Song: Listen

Ivy, the cult 1990s indie-pop trio featuring the late Adam Schlesinger, Andy Chase, and Dominique Durand, have announced a 25th anniversary reissue of their 2000 album Long Distance. Slated to arrive November 1 via Bar/None, the reissue of their breakthrough LP features newly remastered audio by Scott Hull, both a demo and Duotone remix of “Edge of the Ocean,” and the previously unreleased song “All I Ever Wanted.” Listen to that newly unearthed track below.

“All I Ever Wanted” was produced by Lloyd Cole in 1997 while Ivy were recording Apartment Life, but they shelved the track afterward and quickly forgot about it. Chase and Durand hadn’t stumbled across it again until just recently, when they were digging through the Ivy archives for unreleased songs that might function as bonus tracks. Chase further recounted:

We put on one of the 2″ 24 track reel-to-reel tapes we unearthed that had the title “Stupid Cat” scrawled across the outside of the box. This song started playing. It was so familiar to Dominique and I that we Shazam’d it, to see what it was called and which album of ours it was on. But when Shazam came up high and dry, we started remembering more and more of this song’s foggy, unresolved history. Back in 1997, the great Lloyd Cole had co produced a few songs for what would be Apartment Life. We released one called “I’ve Got a Feeling” and, for reasons lost on us today, we shelved the other one—this one—never even doing a rough mix of it. So the master tape sat in our storage locker for the next 24 years, fully forgotten from our memories. After its reemergence, we had it transferred to digital and I finally was able to do a proper mix of it in my studio in 2024. And, yes, Lloyd is even playing some guitars on this song!

Ivy’s last album of original material was 2011’s All Hours. Last year, Bar/None also reissued Ivy’s debut album, Realistic, and their sophomore LP, Apartment Life, and unveiled the single “Sleeping Late.”

Schlesinger died from COVID-19 in April 2020, sending shockwaves through the music community. In addition to Ivy, Schlesinger was a member of Fountains of Wayne, Tinted Windows, and Fever High. The Emmy-winning artist also had a vast repertoire of film and TV music, having penned the Oscar-nominated title track for Tom Hanks’ 1996 film That Thing That You Do!, the pop hits of Josie and the Pussycats, and countless songs for the musical-comedy TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, among dozens of other projects. He won three Emmy Awards, one Grammy Award, and was nominated for Academy Awards, Tony Awards, and Golden Globe Awardss. Schlesinger was remembered by artists with a special covers album, reunions by Fountains of Wayne and That Thing You Do! cast members, and a 2021 star-studded tribute show.

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Long Distance:

01 Undertow
02 Disappointed
03 Edge of the Ocean
04 Blame It on Yourself
05 While We’re in Love
06 Lucy Doesn’t Love you
07 Worry About You
08 Let’s Stay Inside
09 Midnight Sun
10 I Think of You
11 Hideaway
12 One More Last Kiss
13 Digging Your Scene
14 All I Ever Wanted
15 Edge of the Ocean (Duotone Remix)
16 Edge of the Ocean (Demo)