Ivy — the severely underrated '90s indie pop band made up of Andy Chase, Dominique Durand, and the late, great songwriting machine Adam Schlesinger — are reissuing their 1997 sophomore album Apartment Life.
Arriving March 3 on Bar/None Records, the release will include two songs that were previously unavailable digitally, "Sleeping Late" and "Sweet Mary." Both tracks were only released physically on the CD single for Apartment Life's "This Is the Day."
Today, Chase and Durand have shared "Sleeping Late." In a statement about the song, Chase wrote:
Despite being quite ambitious and driven, Dominique, Adam and I were not early risers, at all. Although "Sleeping Late" started as a joke between us, underneath its cutesy, ironic exterior lives a more serious quintessential urban tale about being stuck at home and not wanting to leave.
Dominique always loved the Velvet Underground song "After Hours," loved the way Mo Tucker sang it, and tried to embody Mo's innocent naivety and spirit in her vocal performance. We kept it simple and dry, inspired by early Beatles productions. We didn't put it on the Apartment Life album since it was meant to be silly and sort of tongue and cheek, but we ultimately used it as a bonus track for the Japanese release, figuring over there most people wouldn't understand the lyrics and never know what lazy idiots we were.
Listen to "Sleeping Late" below.
Arriving March 3 on Bar/None Records, the release will include two songs that were previously unavailable digitally, "Sleeping Late" and "Sweet Mary." Both tracks were only released physically on the CD single for Apartment Life's "This Is the Day."
Today, Chase and Durand have shared "Sleeping Late." In a statement about the song, Chase wrote:
Despite being quite ambitious and driven, Dominique, Adam and I were not early risers, at all. Although "Sleeping Late" started as a joke between us, underneath its cutesy, ironic exterior lives a more serious quintessential urban tale about being stuck at home and not wanting to leave.
Dominique always loved the Velvet Underground song "After Hours," loved the way Mo Tucker sang it, and tried to embody Mo's innocent naivety and spirit in her vocal performance. We kept it simple and dry, inspired by early Beatles productions. We didn't put it on the Apartment Life album since it was meant to be silly and sort of tongue and cheek, but we ultimately used it as a bonus track for the Japanese release, figuring over there most people wouldn't understand the lyrics and never know what lazy idiots we were.
Listen to "Sleeping Late" below.
