Ivy have announced a deluxe reissue of their 2000 album Long Distance, which will be out November 1 via Bar/None and will be the first-ever vinyl pressing of the album (pre-order). The original 12 songs have been remastered, and it comes with four bonus tracks, including previously unreleased song “All I Ever Wanted,” a cover of The Blow Monkeys’ “Digging Your Scene,” and a remix and demo of “Edge of the Ocean.”
The sunny “All I Ever Wanted” was discovered by Ivy guitarist Andy Chase and singer Dominique Durand in the band’s archives while working on their reissue of Apartment Life. The song features bassist Adam Schlesinger, who died in 2020, and was produced by Lloyd Cole, who also plays some guitar on it.
“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,” Chase says. “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. 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.
Long Distance:
01 Undertow
02 Disappointed
03 Edge of the Ocean
04 Blame it on Yourself
05 While We’re in Love
06 Lucy Doesn’t Love you
07 Worry About You
08 Let’s Stay Inside
09 Midnight Sun
10 I Think of You
11 Hideaway
12 One More Last Kiss
13 Digging Your Scene (bonus track)
14 All I Ever Wanted (bonus track)
15 Edge of the Ocean Duotone Remix (bonus track)
16 Edge of the Ocean Demo (digital only bonus track)