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Ivy have unveiled “Fragile People” as the second official single and video from their forthcoming seventh studio album Traces of You—their first new release in fourteen years. Slated for release September 5th courtesy of Bar/None Records, the follow-up to 2011’s All Hours features recently unearthed contributions from band co-founder Adam Schlesinger, who passed away in April 2020.
“Unintentionally, ‘Fragile People’ stirred up something really melancholy for us—in a very specific way—about Adam,” Dominique Durand confides in an official statement. “It’s influenced by the loss of someone like him, but we did it in a way that’s very subtle. There’s a ghostly feeling in the meaning of the lyrics.”
Andy Chase adds that the title of the song “resonated with Dominique and I deeply in the aftermath of losing Adam. This is one of the few songs that would constantly bring us to tears even as Bruce, Dominique and I were writing it.”
Durand and Chase called upon Ivy’s backing keyboardist and guitarist Bruce Driscoll to help resurrect archival recordings and demos featuring Schlesinger, which form the musical foundation and spiritual inspiration for Traces of You’s ten compositions.
“The world thought Ivy was gone after 2012, and for a time we did too,” Chase confides in an official statement. “And after Adam’s death in 2020 it seemed certain. So Dominique and I are thrilled to give everyone a brand new Ivy album, with our beloved Adam playing on every song!”
Ivy’s ‘Traces of You’ arrives in stores September 5th
“You can imagine how terrible it's been to lose Adam,” Chase continues. “The only silver lining is that we could breathe life into these songs that he contributed to and it was a great experience making this record happen. It was some of the most fun I've ever had, working on music with Dominique and Bruce.”
“It was also bittersweet,” he adds. “But what was nice about the bittersweetness was that I wasn't alone in feeling that way. We all did. We were like a school of fish— three little fish, missing that fourth fish, all swimming in perfect union with each other, going through both the highs and lows.”
Watch the official video for “Fragile People” below and mark your calendars for Traces of You’s September 5th arrival.
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