Ivy are in the process of piecing together a second collection of songs featuring their late band member Adam Schlesinger, the band told The Bad Penny in an interview on Thursday.
“[We have a] second record [featuring Schlesinger] that is basically done – recorded, mastered, everything,” Ivy guitarist/keyboardist Andy Chase revealed to The Bad Penny. “We have [yet] to figure out when it would be the right time [to release it].”
The news comes roughly three weeks after Ivy issued Traces of You, the indie-pop band’s first album in 14 years. The album consists of 10 songs Schlesinger made with Chase and vocalist Dominique Durand from 1995 to 2012—essentially the duration of the band’s career.
Chase and Durand reunited to complete the compositions along with backing keyboardist and guitarist Bruce Driscoll, who played a pivotal role on Traces of You with his writing, mixing, production, and engineering contributions (additional players included guitarist Jody Porter and percussionist Brian Young from Fountains of Wayne).
Schlesinger was one of the first well-known American cultural figures to die from COVID shortly after the pandemic hit. The universally beloved musician was better known as the frontman of Fountains of Wayne and the stockpile of awards the profusely prolific producer/writer amassed for his work in the TV and film industry: three Emmys, one GRAMMY, and an ASCAP Pop Music Award; to boot, he notched Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe nominations.
Bar/None Records released Traces of You on September 5.
Go to Ivy’s Bandcamp page to buy a copy of the record.
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