Line #1 Music/TheOliviaTremorControl


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:L-R: Will Cullen Hart, Peter Erhick, John Fernandes, Eric Harris, Bill Doss]]
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4	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.
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6	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..
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8	!!Members (founding members in '''bold''', current members in ''italics'')
9	* '''''Will Cullen Hart''''' - Guitar, vocals (1994-2000, 2009-present)
10	* '''Bill Doss''' - Guitar, cornet, percussion, vocals (1994-2000, 2009-2012, died 2012)
11	* '''[[Music/NeutralMilkHotel Jeff Mangum]]''' - Drums, guitar, vocals (1994-1995)
12	* ''Eric Harris'' - Drums, theremin, guitar (1995-2000, 2009-present)
13	* ''John Fernandes'' - Bass, violin, saxophone, clarinet (1995-2000, 2009-present)
14	* ''Peter Erhick'' - Keyboards, bass, vocals (1996-2000, 2009-present)
15	* ''Derek Almstead'' - Drums, guitar, bass (2010-present)
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17	!!Studio Albums
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19	* ''Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle'' (1996)
20	** ''Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences'' (1997, bonus disc)
21	* ''The Olivia Tremor Control vs. The Black Swan Network'' (1997, collaboration w/The Black Swan Network)
22	* ''Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1'' (1999)
23	* ''Singles and Beyond'' (2000, compilation of otherwise-unavailable singles)
24	* ''The Same Place'' (TBA, planned finale)
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27	!!The Olivia Troping Control:
28	* AbortedArc: ''Black Foliage'' is presented as the first volume of "animation music." There never was a second volume released.
29	%%* ApocalypseHow: "California Demise"
30	* TheBandMinusTheFace: Hart has confirmed that after ''The Same Place'' releases, the band will break up out of respect for Bill.
31	* BaroquePop: Much like the rest of the [=E6=] Collective, they take heavy influence from Music/TheBeachBoys.
32	* ConceptAlbum: 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.
33	** A more straightforward example is their first proper album, ''Music From the Unrealized Film Project: Dusk at Cubist Castle'', which was intended to be the soundtrack to a never-released film.
34	* {{Crossover}}: A lot of their companions in the [=E6=] collective frequently guest on their albums. Their most frequent collaborators are Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider, and Neutral Milk Hotel centerpieces Jeff Mangum (a former member of the band) and Julian Koster.
35	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their demo tapes and early singles, compiled on ''Singles and Beyond'', were mostly straightforward lo-fi garage rock, compared to the psychedelic pop/sound collage sound of their two albums.
36	* EpicRocking: Green Typewriters, at 23:08.
37	* {{Hikikomori}}: Possibly the narrator of "Sylvan Screen".
38	* MindScrew: Comes with the territory when most of your songs are about dreams.
39	* PsychedelicRock: They are a GenreThrowback to this style.
40	* RealDreamsAreWeirder: The basic inspiration for most of their songs. One of their songs is even called "Define a Transparent Dream."
41	* RedOniBlueOni: The basic dynamic of the group's sound was based on Bill Doss' (Blue) pop sensibilities combining with Will Cullen Hart's (Red) madcap experimenting.
42	* SerialEscalation: 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?]]
43	* SoloSideProject: Hart and Doss both had ones, which the ''Control'' members frequently cycled through.
44	** Hart's is Circulatory System, which showcases his tendency for heady, experimental jams.
45	** Doss' was The Sunshine Fix, which showcased his love of bright, singalong pop songs.
46	* TitledAfterTheSong:
47	** The working title of the Elephant 6 documentary, ''A Place We Have Been To'' was titled after this band's song of the same name. When the documentary released, however, they changed the name to ''A Future History of Elephant 6'', which is based on a Sunshine Fix album, ''A Future History and Irrelevance of Time''.
48	** Also an inversion: On their ''Singles and Beyond'' compilation, they have a song called "Sunshine Fix," which is the name Bill Doss used for his SoloSideProject.
49	* TheWalrusWasPaul: It's often difficult to tell where the actual "concept" of much of their work ends and the joke begins.

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