Although we’re still basking in the enduring glow of Ivy’s recently reissued 1995 debut album Realistic and 1997 follow-up Apartment Life, we’re thrilled to learn today that the band’s acclaimed third studio album Long Distance—originally released in 2000—will resurface in vinyl form November 1st. It marks the first time that the album will be available in the vinyl format.
Available to pre-order courtesy of Bar/None Records and limited to 700 copies pressed on frosted blue and frosted green vinyl, the special release includes newly remastered audio by Scott Hull, the Duotone remix and original demo of “Edge of the Ocean,” and an insightful track-by-track exploration penned by group co-founder Andy Chase. Additionally, the reissue will include the previously unheard song “All I Ever Wanted,” produced by Lloyd Cole and recorded by Chase, Dominique Durand and Adam Schlesinger during the Apartment Life sessions.
“Dominique and I searched through the Ivy archives for any unreleased Apartment Life-era songs we might be able to use as bonus tracks,” Chase explains in an official statement. “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,” Chase continues. “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!”
Listen to “All I Ever Wanted” below and be sure to mark your calendars for the November 1st vinyl release of Long Distance.
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