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Black Foliage: Animation Music By The Olivia Tremor Control
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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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Black Foliage: Animation Music by the Olivia Tremor Control is a triumph of an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production, and by track 14 even the sink is fair game. Like 1996's Dusk at Cubist Castle: Music from the Unrealized Film, Black Foliage merges Beatles-esque melodies, lyrics, and quirky instrumentation, such as odd bleats of trumpet, crazy xylophone tinkling, toy pianos, and anything else within arm's reach. Stretching this sort of trip-out to more than an hour is a bit much--hell,... read more