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The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band associated with the Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands which also includes Music/OfMontreal, Music/NeutralMilkHotel, and The Apples In Stereo. The band was founded in 1992 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart, as well as future NMH frontman Jeff Mangum. After releasing 2 albums plus a handful of [=EPs=] and singles, the ''Control'' disbanded in early 2000. They reunited in 2009, and re-entered the studio in preparation for a third album, but Bill Doss died unexpectedly in 2012, leaving the future of that album in doubt..

* ConceptAlbum: [[UpToEleven Or concept discography.]] The band's primary inspiration is the nonsensical, entrancing universe of dreams, to the point where they asked some of their listeners to send in tapes of their own dreams.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band would record sound collages just as often as straight psych pop songs.

* TheWalrusWasPaul: It's often to tell where the actual "concept" of much of their work ends and the joke begins.

* ApocalypseHow: "California Demise"

** The upcoming Elephant 6 documentary ''A Place We Have Been To'' is titled after this band's song of the same name.

[[caption-width-right:300:L-R:Will Cullen Hart, Peter Erhick, John Fernandes, Eric Harris, Bill Doss]]

''The Olivia Tremor Control'' is an indie rock band associated with the Music/{{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes ''Music/OfMontreal'', ''Music/NeutralMilkHotel'', and ''Music/TheApplesInStereo''. The band was founded in 1992 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart, as well as future NMH frontman Jeff Mangum. After releasing 2 albums plus a handful of [=EPs=] and singles, the ''Control'' disbanded in early 2000. They reunited in 2009, and re-entered the studio in preparation for a third album, but Bill Doss died unexpectedly in 2012, leaving the future of that album in doubt..

* ShutIn: Possibly the narrator of "Sylvan Screen".

''The Olivia Tremor Control'' is an indie rock band associated with the Music/{{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes ''Music/OfMontreal'', ''Music/NeutralMilkHotel'', and ''Music/TheApplesInStereo''. The band was founded in 1994 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since 2009. Doss died in 2012, putting an end to that year's reunion.

!!The Olivia Trope Control:

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band would record sound collages just as often as straight psych rock songs.
* PsychedelicRock

* BaroquePop
* ConceptAlbum: [[UpToEleven Or concept discography.]]
* EpicRocking: Green Typewriters.
* MindScrew
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly

''The Olivia Tremor Control'' is an indie rock band associated with the {{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes ''Music/OfMontreal'', ''Music/NeutralMilkHotel'', and ''Music/TheApplesInStereo''. The band was founded in 1994 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since 2009. Doss died in 2012, putting an end to that year's reunion.

!!The band exemplifies the following tropes:

* AuthorExistenceFailure: The band were in the middle of a reunion tour when founder Bill Doss died in July 2012.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The eternal question.

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band associated with the {{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes OfMontreal, NeutralMilkHotel, and TheApplesInStereo. The band was founded in 1994 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since 2009. Doss died in 2012, putting an end to that year's reunion.

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band associated with the {{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes OfMontreal, NeutralMilkHotel, and TheApplesInStereo. The band was founded in 1994 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and William Cullen Hart and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since 2009. Doss died in 2012, putting an end to that year's reunion.

* AuthorExistanceFailure: The band were in the middle of a reunion tour when founder Bill Doss died in July 2012.

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band associated with the {{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes OfMontreal, NeutralMilkHotel, and TheApplesInStereo. The band was founded in 1994 by singer/songwriter/guitarists Bill Doss and William Cullen Hart and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since. Doss died in 2012, putting an end to that year's reunion.

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band associated with the {{Elephant 6}} Collective, a group of bands which also includes OfMontreal, NeutralMilkHotel, and TheApplesInStereo. The band was founded in 1994 and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Often. For example, most of the shorter tracks on ''Black Foliage Animation Music'' are variations on the basic tracks for the song "Black Foliage"; in turn, the super-brief "Combinations" tracks are remixes of those remixes; and the B-side to the album single "Hideaway", also entitled "Combinations", is seemingly a three-minute remix of those remixed remixes... [[MindScrew Savvy?]]