feeding friendsy
[2007, debacle]

ivory lid is seattle's demetrius carlson who also goes by birds. not sure if there's a solid distinction between the two projects or not. he's joined on this split by wesley borden, whom i cannot find any info about whatsoever.
the three discs that i got from debacle are a part of the yearlong emerald city debacle, volume one series. the cds are available either individually or as part of a subscription. the series appears to be an attempt to cull local underground artists from varying genres and give them some exposure. that's a good thing. though, i'd imagine if your tastes are not completely open-minded, subscribing to this could present some problems. one such problem could be with this installment as ivory lid is coming from an electronic/techno field while wesley borden is based around drone. needless to say ivory lid isn't my thing at all. at his best, demetrius manages to give us an alright impression of four tet...other than that, i pretty much skimmed through all of ivory lid's songs quickly and chose to listen to wesley's. his warm, inoffensive, atmospheric drones are pleasing enough to the ear, but they don't really do much for me beyond that. i'm sure that anyone who's pretty into yellow6 wouldn't have qualms with what borden's doing. as for ivory lid, just think of a third-rate four tet with club aspirations and you wouldn't be too far off the mark. though, i haven't listened to anything from four tet since rounds, so maybe kieran has already degenerated to that since then.

Ivory Lid - English Never Felt So Good
Wesley Borden - Lazy Not In Love