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Free Download: Ivy's Seductive Single 'Distant Lights'

Sample a song from New York trio's new album, 'All Hours'

September 27, 2011 3:35 PM ET
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Click here to listen to Ivy's "Distant Lights"

New York pop trio Ivy make melancholy sound chic. This new single is typically seductive: sleek beat, wistful melody and a vaguely noirish scene set by Dominique Durand in a voice pitched halfway between a coo and a sigh. "Distant Lights is, in a sense, the most important song on [All Hours]," Durand told Rolling Stone. "It's the song that created and led to the direction of this record." Ivy's new album, All Hours, is in stores now, and you can download "Distant Lights" for free here.

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