Apartment Life
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| Studio album by Ivy | ||||
| Released | October 6, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
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| Length | 44:30 | |||
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1999 reissue cover
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | Favorable |
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Apartment Life is the second studio album by American indie pop band Ivy, released in 1997 on Atlantic Records. It was re-released later the same year by Sony's 550 Music imprint, with remixed versions of several songs.
Apartment Life received predominantly positive reviews upon release, and is considered Ivy's signature album by several modern musical critics, who called it "underrated" and "under-appreciated".
Four singles were released from the album: "I've Got a Feeling", "The Best Thing", "This Is the Day", and "You Don't Know Anything". Lead single "I've Got a Feeling" was critically successful, but commercially unsuccessful. However, third single "This is the Day" received significant attention after appearing in the popular film There's Something About Mary. To promote the album, Ivy embarked on a small promotional tour, but were dropped from Atlantic at the beginning of the tour.
The initial production for Apartment Life started shortly after the release of their debut album, Realistic. The process was overly long, according to Ivy, who mentioned that they had difficulty finding time to work on the album:
"It's the same story every band has to grapple with, which is trying to fit onto the insane release schedule of a major label. It's funny because you can talk yourself out of all 12 months. You can't do it in July because school is out and you'll miss college. Everybody is releasing records in September, you've got the September crunch. October is too close to November, which starts the Christmas stuff. Before you know it, you're back to June and July again. That's what we went through. They just picked some date which I think was seven months after we turned in the record."
The cover of the original edition of the album depicted lead singer Dominique Durand, shown looking into the mirror of a compact. The reissued 550 Music edition of Apartment Life moved the original front sleeve art of Durand to the inside. The new front cover art, a digitally altered version of a photo that originally appeared on the inner booklet, consisted of Durand sitting alone at a small breakfast table.
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