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Ivy is a New York-based band whose main attraction is the
breathy vocals and exotic accent of French-born singer Dominique Durand,
even if the music is sculpted by guitarist Andy Chase and
drummer Adam Schlesinger (also in Fountains Of Wayne).
THe debut single Get Enough (Seed, 1994) and the album
Realistic (Seed, 1995) present a style of bittersweet balladry
halfway between folk-rock and lounge music, halfway between
early Everything But The Girl
and the Cardigans.
No Guarantee, Point Of View, Beautiful, Shallow
are pretty and tuneful, but too superficial to be also emotional.
Apartment Life (Atlantic, 1997) is better produced but equally vain.
The Best Thing, I Get The Message, Never Do That Again
are impeccable mainly in the way they are meaningless.
This Is The Day sounds like the Carpenters with horns.
Strings adorn Baker and jangling guitars propel I've Got Feeling.
The poppy You Don't Know Anything is either their masterpiece or their
worst atrocity, depending on taste.
The joke was getting boring on Long Distance (Nettwerk, 2000)
and
In The Clear (Nettwerk, 2005).
Guestroom (Minty Fresh, 2003) is only a collection of covers.
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