Details:Ivy “Apartment Life” 25th Anniversary White RE LP (2023, Bar/None). New stock, sealed.

Description: “Ivy, the NYC trio of Dominique Durand, Andy Chase, and Adam Schlesinger, released their second album,Apartment Life, in October of 1997. It was a marked step up from their 1995 debut,Realistic, with bigger, more ambitious production and arrangements, plus guest appearances fromLloyd Cole, Dean Wareham,andJames Iha. The songs were better too, and the album was loaded with breezy earworms like “This is the Day,” “I Get the Message,” “The Best Thing,” and more. Unfortunately, the band suffered from record label woes: Atlantic dropped them not long after the album was released, but then Sony rereleased it in 1999 with different artwork.

Apartment Lifewas never released on vinyl, but that is about to change, as the group has signed with Bar-None who are reissuing their entire catalog, starting withApartment Life …The 25th-anniversary reissue also comes with two digital bonus tracks that were previously only available on the Japanese edition of the CD.”–Brooklyn Vegan

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. The Best Thing
A2. I’ve Got A Feeling
A3. This Is The Day
A4. Never Do That Again
A5. I Get The Message
A6. Baker

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. You Don’t Know Anything
B2. Ba Ba Ba
B3. Get Out Of The City
B4. These Are The Things About You
B5. Quick, Painless And Easy
B6. Back In Our Town
B7. Sleeping Late
B8. Sweet Mary