Last month, Ivy’s Andy Chase and Dominique Durand revealed plans to re-release their second studio album Apartment Life (1997) on vinyl for the first time ever, courtesy of Bar/None Records. And today, the pair have announced that they will also unveil a complementary demos collection, offering their fans rare perspective into the genesis of the songs that ultimately surfaced in the album’s more polished form.
“We spoke with (the label’s) Mark Lipsitz and Bar/None is now planning to re-release our catalog,” Chase explained when I interviewed Durand and him a few months ago. “He wanted to do vinyl, which we really hadn't done much of. And so, in talking with him, we thought, ‘well, maybe we could do something even more special.’ We'll re-release Apartment Life digitally. Obviously, we'll do vinyl. But what if we go back into our archives, and we find all of the demo versions for each song that ended up being on Apartment Life, and we'll do an Apartment Life demos release. We'll find the original artwork, and we'll use some of the outtakes. So, the artwork almost looks the same, but it's not. And we'll have the same sequence of songs in the same order, but there'll be the demo versions. So that's what we've done.”
The Apartment Life vinyl reissue is slated to arrive in just a few weeks on March 3rd, followed by the Apartment Life Demos release on April 22nd as an exclusive Record Store Day offering. The Demos collection will also be available digitally on July 21st.
Listen to the demo version of “I’ve Got A Feeling” below.
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