Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at

Cubist Castle
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle is
the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Olivia
Music from the Unrealized
Tremor Control, released on 6 August 1996. The album was Film Script: Dusk at
produced by The Olivia Tremor Control and Robert Schneider, an Cubist Castle
associate of the band in The Elephant 6 Recording Company
collective.

The first few thousand copies of the album were released with a
bonus CD, Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream
Sequences. It has been claimed that this album will produce
quadraphonic sound when played at the same time as that disc.
However, the two discs differ in length by approximately five
minutes, rendering this an unlikely intention. The Flydaddy 017
release was reissued as a double album with Explanation II as the
second disc. This bonus disc was later re-released as a full album by
Flydaddy in 1999 but the most recent Cloud Recordings reissues do
not include the extra disc. Studio album by The Olivia
Tremor Control
Released 6 August 1996
Contents Recorded 1993–1996
Production Genre Indie rock, neo-
Critical reception psychedelia, art rock

Track listing Length 74:05

Personnel Label Flydaddy, Elephant 6

References Producer Robert Schneider, The

Olivia Tremor Control,
The Elephant 6
Production Orchestra
The Olivia Tremor Control
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle was chronology
produced by The Olivia Tremor Control and Robert Schneider, with
creative input from The Elephant 6 Orchestra. The album was Music Explanation
recorded between 1993 and 1996 on 4-track cassette recorder, then from the II:
completed at producer/engineer Schneider's Pet Sounds Recording Unrealized Instrumental
Studio on 8-track reel-to-reel. Album artwork and design was Film Themes
created by W. Cullen Hart and Bill Doss. Script: and Dream
Dusk at Sequences
Cubist (1997)
Critical reception Castle
(1996)
In a contemporary review of Music from the Unrealized
Professional ratings
Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, Tom Cox of NME
called The Olivia Tremor Control "experts at combining Review scores
the absurd with the uplifting".[6] Jason Cohen of The
Source Rating
Austin Chronicle remarked that, with the exception of the
[1]
"random bursts and transient noise" of "Green AllMusic
Typewriters", Dusk at Cubist Castle is "an embarrassment Alternative Press 4/5[2]
of pop riches, a mildly psychedelic, lavishly melodic
The Austin Chronicle [3]
quasi-masterpiece."[3] Alternative Press praised the album
as "a perfect psych-pop explosion",[2] while Q called it "a The A.V. Club A[4]
soundscape where anything can, and frequently does, [5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
happen".[8] It ranked at number 37 on The Village Voice's
year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[11] NME 8/10[6]

Pitchfork 9.1/10[7]
Dusk at Cubist Castle was later ranked at number 39 by
Q [8]
the online magazine Pitchfork on their list of the best
albums of the 1990s.[12] The Rolling Stone Album Guide [9]

Spin 7/10[10]
Track listing
All songs written by The Olivia Tremor Control.

1. "The Opera House" – 3:12

2. "Frosted Ambassador" – 1:02
3. "Jumping Fences" – 1:52
4. "Define a Transparent Dream" – 2:49
5. "No Growing (Exegesis)" – 3:00
6. "Holiday Surprise 1, 2, 3" – 6:11
7. "Courtyard" – 2:57
8. "Memories of Jacqueline 1906" – 2:15
9. "Tropical Bells" – 1:40
10. "Can You Come Down with Us?" – 2:18
11. "Marking Time" – 4:28
12. "Green Typewriters" – 2:22
13. "Green Typewriters" – 0:24
14. "Green Typewriters" – 0:59
15. "Green Typewriters" – 2:11
16. "Green Typewriters" – 1:10
17. "Green Typewriters" – 0:38
18. "Green Typewriters" – 1:38
19. "Green Typewriters" – 9:39
20. "Green Typewriters" – 1:21
21. "Green Typewriters" – 2:39
22. "Spring Succeeds" – 2:25
23. "Theme for a Very Delicious Grand Piano" – 0:57
24. "I Can Smell the Leaves" – 1:50
25. "Dusk at Cubist Castle" – 7:35
26. "The Gravity Car" – 1:45
27. "NYC-25" – 4:39

Personnel
Instrumentation, vocals and production by The Olivia Tremor Control:

Bill Doss – instrumentation, vocals, production, artwork and design

W. Cullen Hart – instrumentation, vocals, production, artwork and design
Eric Harris – instrumentation, vocals, production
John Fernandes – instrumentation, vocals, production

Additional instrumentation and production by The Elephant 6 Orchestra:

Robert Schneider – Tibetan prayer board, bass, vocals, melodica, co-production, engineering
Jeff Mangum – chanter pipe, slide guitar, vocals, melodica, piano, and space bubbles
Julian Koster – bowed electric guitar, mallet struck acoustic guitar, and the singing saw
Steve Jacobek – trumpet
Rick Benjamin – trombone

References
1. Ankeny, Jason. "Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle – The Olivia
Tremor Control" (http://www.allmusic.com/album/music-from-the-unrealized-film-script-dusk-at-
cubist-castle-mw0000185931). AllMusic. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
2. "The Olivia Tremor Control: Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle".
Alternative Press (99): 97. October 1996.
3. Cohen, Jason (November 15, 1996). "Olivia Tremor Control: Music From the Unrealized Film
Script Dusk at Cubist Castle (Flydaddy)" (http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1996-11-15/52
5630/). The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
4. LeMay, Matt (November 15, 2011). "The Olivia Tremor Control: Music From The Unrealized
Film Script / Dusk At Cubist Castle / Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1" (http://www.avclu
b.com/review/the-olivia-tremor-control-emmusic-from-the-unreali-65036). The A.V. Club.
Retrieved March 10, 2016.
5. Larkin, Colin (2009). "Olivia Tremor Control" (http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/ac
ref/9780195313734.001.0001/acref-9780195313734-e-20711). The Encyclopedia of Popular
Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-972636-1. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
6. Cox, Tom (September 21, 1996). "The Olivia Tremor Control – Music From The Unrealized
Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle" (https://web.archive.org/web/20000930132615/http://www.n
me.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000120reviews.html). NME. Archived from the original (htt
p://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000120reviews.html) on September 30, 2000.
Retrieved March 10, 2016.
7. Thompson, Paul (November 17, 2011). "The Olivia Tremor Control: Music From the Unrealized
Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle / Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1" (http://pitchfork.co
m/reviews/albums/16047-otc/). Pitchfork. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
8. "The Olivia Tremor Control: Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle". Q
(123): 140. December 1996.
9. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Olivia Tremor Control". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The
New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 603 (https://archive.org/detail
s/newrollingstonea00brac/page/603). ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
10. Stephens, Chuck (September 1996). "The Olivia Tremor Control: Music from the Unrealized
Film Script—'Dusk at Cubist Castle' " (https://books.google.com/books?id=fsRC10LkbN0C&lpg
=PP1&pg=PA155). Spin. 12 (6): 155. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
11. "The 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll" (http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres96.php). The Village
Voice. February 25, 1997. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
12. "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s" (http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/5923-top-100-alb
ums-of-the-1990s/?page=7). Pitchfork. November 17, 2003. Retrieved March 10, 2016.

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