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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 toget
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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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, even the Beatles only tried to do that once--but if broken up into smaller bites, Black Foliage has its rewards. On the ether-dizzy "Paranormal Echoes" OTC manages to play with all of their toys at once and yet keep them in line to produce a mind-numbingly beautiful and strange composition. The whole shebang is tied together with aurally disorienting interludes, occasionally disrupting the flow but never for long. In other words: happy songs, crazy arrangements, terrific fun. --Jason Josephes
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Track listing1. Opening
2. Peculiar Noise Called "Train Director"
3. Combinations
4. Hideway
5. Black Foliage: Amination 1
6. Combinations
7. Sky Is a Harpsichord Canvas
8. Sleepy Company
9. Grass Canons
10. New Day
11. Combinations
12. Black Foliage (Animation 2)
13. I Have Been Floated
14. Paranormal Echoes
15. Black Foliage (Animation 3)
16. Place We Have Been To
17. Black Foliage (Itself)
18. Sylvan Screen
19. Bark and Below It
20. Black Foliage (Animation 4)
21. California Demise, Pt. 3
22. Looking for Quiet Seeds
23. Combinations
24. Mystery
25. Another Set of Bees in the Museum
26. Black Foliage (Animation 5)
27. Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)
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