The Olivia Tremor Control
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle

The soundtrack of an unrealized film. The title: "Dusk at Cubist Castle".

These are the premises for approaching the listening of the first work by Olivia Tremor Control, a leading group along with their "cousins" Neutral Milk Hotel of the Elephant 6 collective-ideal of life-microcosm.

The 27 tracks of this double album move between pop and avant-garde, psychedelia and surrealism, arrangements on the brink of baroque and various cacophonies, Sgt. Pepper and Barrett, lo-fi and Brian Wilson.

A meta-musical experience, rich in countless aspects resting on a very specific substrate: pop. It’s difficult to identify an album where the deconstruction of pop reaches these levels while maintaining such sublime quality standards of writing for more than 70 minutes. Monumental, yet never boring or pretentious.

Dream and madness, catharsis and joy, Dusk at Cubist Castle.

One of the most surprising albums of the '90s decade.

In loving memory of Bill Doss