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2人のNY出身アーティストと、フランス人女性ヴォーカルの3人からなるポップ・バンド。2年ぶりの新作となるこのセカンド・アルバムは、テクニックのすべて注ぎ込んだ完成度の高い作品。
From Amazon.co.uk
After years of postmodern pop posturing from dozens of would-be Portisheads and Björks, it's something more than a relief to see Ivy's third album,
Long Distance. The New York-based trio's languid but richly emotional meld of trip-hop, classic French-pop touches (singer Dominique Durand is a Paris native) and indie-adventurousness shine here, even while displaying the outfit's deepest melancholic vibe. Few singer-songwriters could put across a sentiment like that of "Disappointed"--Durand explains that she's bound to leave a guy--without coming off defensive or taunting. "While We're in Love" offers a similarly bleak, if enticing, future.
Long Distance never burrows so far into its own melancholy as to render the effect merely selfish or cold; even if your situation is hunky-dory, you'll be hard-pressed not to revel in the subtle empathy of these numbers. The sole non-original, the
Blow Monkeys' 1986 single "Digging Scene", demonstrates Ivy's ability to render a late-summer day-scape replete with slowly pushed merry-go-round and intimation of oncoming loss, all with a wink. --
Rickey Wright
