Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
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The Olivia Tremor Control / Producer
The Olivia Tremor Control / Writer
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Critic Reviews
100
The combination of grand aesthetic ambition and humble, homespun execution favored by The Olivia Tremor Control remains inspiring by any decadeβs standards.
12y
91
Stately, sumptuous, and slightly otherworldly, Dusk is brimming with immaculate hooks and queries bound for the cosmos.
12y
90
Some bands find an odd sense of pride in crafting their work out of solely their own methods, even if what results is nothing but dirt, and will not stand to take cue from anyone. This considered; it's lucky The Olivia Tremor Control did no such thing.
12y
90
Not the Beatles, but an incredible facsimile: on their sprawling 27-song debut opus, Music From the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle, the Olivia Tremor Control manage to summon not only the sound of the White Album-era Fab Four, but also the unfettered creativity.
13y
70
From Guided by Voices' microbrewed mop-top-ery to Oasis' XTC-without-a-soapbox simulations, it's time to stop denying what tomorrow already knows: a new era of Fab euFouria is upon us.
11y
While this debut album from The Olivia Tremor Control is really cool, it just doesn't feel as well thought out as something like their later LP, Black Foilage. The sunshine pop tracks aren't as catchy, and the more experimental cuts on here that are littered through the tracklist don't feel like they supplement the pop songs as well as they could have. This, combined with the rather lengthy runtime, makes for a listen that is almost a monotonous one. Olivia Tremor Control has ... read more
Really interesting album I really respect, but man there’s some stuff on here that is a bit too much for me, like 9 minutes of highway sounds.
Dusk at Cubist Castle is a very interesting album. The first half is mostly filled with psychedelic indie pop, reminiscent of The Beatles, however, the album takes a turn with the 'Green Typewriters' suite. The suite is a mix of psychedelic pop, noise rock, and drones, and it takes you on a ~24 minute acid-trip journey. After this, there is some semblance of the catchiness of earlier tracks, but much more experimental production methods are utilised. This second half is my personal ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | The Opera House 3:12 | 90 |
| 2 | Frosted Ambassador 1:02 | 77 |
| 3 | Jumping Fences 1:52 | 93 |
| 4 | Define a Transparent Dream 2:49 | 90 |
| 5 | No Growing (Exegesis) 3:00 | 87 |
| 6 | Holiday Surprise 1, 2, 3 6:11 | 89 |
| 7 | Courtyard 2:57 | 85 |
| 8 | Memories of Jacqueline 1906 2:15 | 83 |
| 9 | Tropical Bells 1:40 | 76 |
| 10 | Can You Come Down with Us? 2:18 | 82 |
| 11 | Marking Time 4:28 | 85 |
| 12 | Green Typewriters 2:22 | 86 |
| 13 | Green Typewriters 0:24 | 76 |
| 14 | Green Typewriters 0:59 | 81 |
| 15 | Green Typewriters 2:11 | 84 |
| 16 | Green Typewriters 1:10 | 66 |
| 17 | Green Typewriters 0:38 | 74 |
| 18 | Green Typewriters 1:38 | 66 |
| 19 | Green Typewriters 9:39 | 66 |
| 20 | Green Typewriters 1:21 | 85 |
| 21 | Green Typewriters 2:39 | 84 |
| 22 | Spring Succeeds 2:25 | 84 |
| 23 | Theme for a Very Delicious Grand Piano 0:57 | 73 |
| 24 | I Can Smell the Leaves 1:50 | 83 |
| 25 | Dusk at Cubist Castle 7:35 | 75 |
| 26 | The Gravity Car 1:45 | 78 |
| 27 | NYC-25 4:39 | 93 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 13 minutes
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11mo
This would be perfect if most green typewriter songs were not on this, especially the nine minute one and the one before it.
