Five years after bidding a too-early farewell to one of pop’s most stalwart songwriters, a new album from his second-best remembered (but first major) band is coming, built off contributions he left behind. Traces of You is the first new album in a dozen years from alternative pop band Ivy. The news might come as a shock, as one of the group’s charter members, bassist/songwriter Adam Schlesinger, died in 2020 – an early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Happily, as a gift from somewhere beyond, he’s present on all 10 tracks, sourced from reel-to-reel tapes discovered while prepping reissues of the group’s back catalogue. Originally recorded through most of the group’s tenure between 1995 and 2012, Schlesinger’s bandmates (multi-instrumentalist…

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