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The Olivia Tremor Control
Black Foliage: Animation Music By The Olivia Tremor Control
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Peculiar Noise Called "Train Director"
2. Hideaway
3. Black Foliage (Animation 1)
4. A Sleepy Company
5. Grass Canons
6. A New Day
7. Black Foliage (Animation 2)
8. I Have Been Floated
9. Paranormal Echoes
10. Black Foliage (Animation 3)
11. A Place We Have Been To
12. Black Foliage (Itself)
13. The Sylvan Screen
14. The Bark and Below It
15. Black Foliage (Animation 4)
16. California Demise 3
17. Looking for Quiet Seeds
18. Mystery
19. Another Set of Bees in the Museum
20. Black Foliage (Animation 5)
21. Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)

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CD Details

All Artists: The Olivia Tremor Control
Title: Black Foliage: Animation Music By The Olivia Tremor Control
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Flydaddy Records
Original Release Date: 3/23/1999
Release Date: 3/23/1999
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 787331002728

Synopsis

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

Olivia Tremor Control can't decide whether they want to be experimental-noise progenitors or avant-garde psychedelic pop stars. That schism makes Black Foliage alternately wondrous, challenging, and frustrating, with moments of pure brilliance patched together with overworked, overedited passages of indulgence. But frustrating doesn't mean bad. It's just not easy listening, and OTC like it that way. --Tod Nelson

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CD Reviews

Daring, Poppy, And Wonderful

Sierra Wilson | Rhode Island | 04/18/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No one experimented with found-sounds better than the Olivia Tremor Control, and Hart and Doss and co. turn "Black Foliage" into a 75-minute rollercoaster of droning ambience, clunking instrumentation, and top-shelf melody and harmony. If one were to simply cull the great pop songs from "Black Foliage" ("California Demise 3," "I Have Been Floated," "Hideaway"), you would have a pop album better than almost anything released during the 90s--yet when these gems are sandwiched between spacey interludes, far out experiments, they become something even more special, like shimmering golden threats within a beautiful tapestry. The OTC wrote better melodies, took more risks, and made better albums than almost anyone since. Forget Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" or Radiohead's "Kid A"--this album beats both of those subsequent two on their own terms, blending stellar songwriting with abstract ambition, yet never devolving into cliches or boring exercises. Buy."