Olivia Tremor Control (Update July 2012 -- Bill Doss RIP)

Is there anything good E6-related that is *not* OTC and/or the first Neutral Milk Hotel album?? Everything else blows...

Hissing Fauna

the second Neutral Milk Hotel album

Re. the OTC: these guys had weak voices

i don't know man, Doss' voice is pretty great

check out "Wings Away" from the new Apples In Stereo to here some good Doss vocals. great song.

Is there anything good E6-related that is *not* OTC and/or the first Neutral Milk Hotel album?? Everything else blows...

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:20 AM (1 hour ago)

Yeah there are some great Minders albums.

'i hope your heartstrings break' by beulah

Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't

second the love for Doss as a vocalist, and for "Wings Away"!

also, there are several great Apples in Stereo albums. Her Wallpaper Reverie is particularly recommended for the OTC-inclined.

A Hawk and a Handsaw

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http://pitchfork.com/news/40141-listen-olivia-tremor-control-return/

liking this new track, although having not read that 'no pop here' bit before listening I was a wee bit disappointed on that front. But still good to hear something new. And only five and a half years after John Fernandes told me they'd probably be getting back into the studio together.

The first Gerbils album still holds up I think.

Yeah, I'm pretty psyched to have new OTC material of any description! These guys have been informally recording for a while now I think. Hope there's more to come soon.

Saw Bablicon open for OTC right after Black Foliage came out, great show.
I remember The Frosted Ambassador cd at the college station was good.
Think it was the drummer from OTC.

*Completely* missed this! Was browsing last.fm and saw they are performing again... o_O

Is there a new album in the works? Or just that one track? God I'd love to even anticipate a new album of these guys.

going to see them in september. cannot wait.

saw the e6 showcase a few months ago, and all the otc songs they played were great

Is there a new album in the works?

supposedly

they're good live huh? never saw them in the '90s. trying to decide if I should go to Le Poisson Rouge next month.

I saw three different gigs back in the day, they ranged from good to great.
Will Hart was diagnosed with MS.

I saw a first 'farewell' show back in 2001 or 1999 or something, at the 40 Watt in Athens. It was pretty incredible how they accurately re-created such a bizarre catalog of songs and sounds. Plus they projected some really nice psychedelic analog film stuff that seemed from the same world as the album artwork. They even had the strange in-between sound collage bits play while they switched instruments and got ready for the next song.

"I Have Been Floated" was always my favorite track.

all right that's good to hear. I didn't consciously avoid seeing em live but wondered if they were more of a studio thing. I'll probably go I think

Some US tour dates for Mangum and for OTC:

Jeff Mangum
Aug. 8 - Burlington, VT - First Unitarian Church *
Aug.10 - Montreal, PQ - Cabaret du Mile-End *
Aug. 12 - Toronto, ON - Trinity St. Paul *
Aug. 13 - Toronto, ON - Trinity St. Paul *
Sept. 7 - Northampton, MA - Academy of Music Theatre
Sept. 9 - Cambridge, MA - Sanders Theatre at Harvard *
Sept. 10 - Boston, MA - New England Conservatory *
Sept. 26 - Baltimore, MD - 2640 Space at St. John's *
Sept. 27 - Baltimore, MD - 2640 Space at St. John's *
Sept. 30 - Oct. 3 - Asbury Park, NJ - ATP Festival *
Oct. 29 - New York, NY - Town Hall *
Nov. 6 - Jersey City, NJ - Loew's Jersey Theatre *
Nov. 30 - Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's *
Dec. 2-4 - Butlins, Minehead, UK - ATP Festival
Dec. 8 - London, UK - Union Chapel *
Dec. 9 - London, UK - Union Chapel *
* = Sold Out!

The Olivia Tremor Control
Aug. 29 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
Aug. 31 - Austin, TX - Mohawk *
Sept. 3 - Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest
Sept. 5 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
Sept. 8 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project *
Sept. 9 - Portland, OR- (MFNW) Someday Lounge *
Sept. 12 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre *
Sept. 13 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge *
Sept. 14 - Columbus, OH - Wexner Center *
Sept. 15 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Warhol at New Hazlett Theatre *
Sept. 16 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace *
Sept. 17 - Montreal, PQ - Il Motore *
Sept. 19 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *
Sept. 21 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *
Sept. 23 - Philadelphia, PA - UPENN Rotunda *
Sept. 24 - Durham, NC - The Casbah *
Oct. 11-15 - Athens, GA - Athens PopFest
Nov. 25 - Madrid, Spain - Primavera Club
Nov. 26 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Club
Nov. 28 - Toulouse, France - La Dynamo
Dec. 2-4 - Butlins, Minehead, UK - ATP Festival
* = with The Music Tapes

saw the e6 holiday surprise tour a few months ago and it was fantastic! looking forward to the OTC show here that's at the same venue

Anyone seen OTC on the first few dates of this tour? Or any recent tour, really.

Considering going to the Portland show and wondering what the ratio of sweet Beatles-esque jams vs. ambient/collage/etc will be...

new single is underwhelming

seeing them at the columbus/wexner center show. i think they're playing about 2/3rds older stuff, from reading interviews. looking forward to it.

saw them. was worth the 3 hour drive each way...they only played 2 new songs, to my knowledge. one was the one posted online, which worked well live as a minimalist, almost kraut-y jam. the other definitely had more of a jangly, Black Foliage-sound.

encore was by request: opera house, grass cannons, and nyc - 25. great ending.

other than that, the set was great. can't think of anything i wanted to hear that they didn't play. and the sound was great---the people at the Wex always seem to be top-notch on that point. 6 vocal mics...vocals sounded so, so good.

they also have the 2xLP re-issues that aren't officially out for another couple months for $20 each, which come with digital download of the re-masters, and a discs worth of b-sides and live material. really nice screen-printed tour poster, too, though i didn't spring for that.

I'm going next Weds in New York. That description sounds encouraging. Should be a cool show.

listened to Black Foliage this morning in anticipation

really good show. Green Typewriter Suite frickin ruled. and Opera House killed as the show closer.

another great one was that song I can't remember the name of from Black Foliage that goes into a cappella harmonies "so long, sailor ... goodbye ..."

can't think of anything i wanted to hear that they didn't play

OTM

oh yeah and they recorded it for NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140533815/live-wednesday-the-olivia-tremor-control-in-concert

yeah, the Green Typewriter Suite did rule. and the "so long" is "Hideaway." gonna stream that set in a minute...

the Black Foliage re-issue sounds ggggggrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaatttttt. A reminder that this band should be way more renowned than they are.

Played Marking Time on my radio show last week. Still chokes me up. Really gorgeous harmony singing and just perfect accompaniment with the slightly out of tune piano.

Having a HUGE "what the fuck" moment here, following Trip Maker's post. I have *always*, since the album came out, thought the song was called "Mourning Time". Played it about a million times, thought the cover said "Mourning Time" too... jeez. My mind must have been playing tricks on me, because there isn't a "Mourning Time" from OTC. One of those moments where you feel like the whole world had you fooled and was in on the joke... o_O

Not good:

https://twitter.com/FlagpoleMusic/status/230338230636126208

Very sad news: Hearing that Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss has passed away. No other details available yet.

Oh fuck.

:( that's awful i listened to the hell out of these records and i think they opened up a part of my brain to the psychedelic music i would come to love later on.

Confirmed.

https://twitter.com/chunklet/status/230345273556205569

https://twitter.com/andregallant/status/230344703508369408

Holy shit.

saw them play just over two weeks ago

This is horrible.

:(

fuck fuck fuck.

what the hell

RIP

Terrible.

WTF

RIP

don't know what else to say, OTC meant so much to me

RIP

that first album and a bunch of the EPs are really good. stunned ... dude was so young!

Second album is also brilliant...lots of good songs on those Sunshine Fix records, too. Fuck.