Ivy crafted one of the Nineties’ great lost indie-pop gems with their 1997 cult classic Apartment Life. It’s one of the decade’s sharpest portraits of modern urban romance: exquisitely moody adult love songs, all purred by Paris-born chanteuse Dominique Durand in her groovy French accent. And now is a great time to discover it, with the the new 25th Anniversary Edition featuring two superb outtakes. The whole album has the vibe of the excellent cover photo—a mod French woman putting on her makeup, maybe for a touch of glamour,...
- 3/5/2023
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
The news that Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger has died at age 52 due to complications related to Covid-19 comes as a painful shock to fans of his hilarious, heartfelt, utterly one-of-a-kind style of songwriting. Working alongside Fountains of Wayne co-founder Chris Collingwood, and on his own in assorted side projects and TV and movie gigs, Schlesinger built up an unparalleled catalog of character studies of dreamers, lovers, and total idiots, mostly set in his native New Jersey and the surrounding areas. (“One of the great things about putting New...
- 4/1/2020
- by Jon Dolan, Brian Hiatt, Christian Hoard, Daniel Kreps, Angie Martoccio, Alan Sepinwall and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
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