The title of Dream, Ivory’s sophomore album, When You Come Back I Have So Much to Tell You, evokes both anticipation and foreboding. Initially, the duo comprising brothers Christian and Louie Baello thought of the album as a conversation between two people separated by a long distance, their inevitable reunion the sole light at the end of a dark tunnel. But as time wore on, the brothers developed a new interpretation. “The title could just as easily apply to a negative situation. Like, maybe the other person isn’t coming back. Maybe the stories that need to be told aren’t happy ones,” Louie says. The stories on When You Come Back… tackle a spectrum of emotion, from the highs of romantic love to the distressing lows of addiction. “Take a look inside the mirror/ There’s no time for telling lies,” Louie sings on the hypnotic “Not the Best Idea.” It might as well be the album’s thesis.
