The Ivory Coast

As five individuals with significantly varying (and often opposing) views and tastes (musically and otherwise) the members of Boston's The Ivory Coast certainly share at least one thing in common: their lives have been changed because of music. Punk, oldies radio, lo-fi, dub, indie, electronic music and rock n' roll among other things have made them the people who they are and affected how they play music when they come together. The band's music is not an awkward hybrid or amalgamation of their differing tastes or the above musical forms but perhaps instead it is the result of where their shared interests overlap and their instincts meet.

The Ivory Coast's debut album, The Rush of Oncoming Traffic was released in 2000 (on Big Wheel Records), but was recorded nearly two years prior to the release. That has given the band two years of playing shows and writing and perfecting another album's worth of material. That material was recorded and released as Clouds in August 2001.