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Ivy

"Distant Lights"

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June 6, 2011

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.

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