Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle is the debut studio album by the American indie rock band The Olivia Tremor Control, released on 6 August 1996. The album was produced by The Olivia Tremor Control and Robert Schneider, an 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. Background and recording The Olivia Tremor Control originated as a psychedelic band called Cranberry Lifecycle. This band was formed in Ruston, Louisiana in the late 1980s, by high school friends Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum. After graduating from high school, Hart and Mangum moved to Athens, Georgia, and reworked Cranberry Lifecycle songs under the name Synthetic Flying Machine. Fellow Rustonian Bill Doss joined in 1993, and the lineup consisted of Hart on electric guitar, Doss on bass guitar, and Mangum on drums. The band gained a small following due in part to the psychedelic-infused music, which differed from the prevalent grunge sound in the city. Mangum left the group shortly after its formation, as he wanted to focus on a solo project that would eventually become Neutral Milk Hotel. Doss and Hart then decided to rename the group to the Olivia Tremor Control. Mangum suggested the name, which was intended to be a surreal sounding phrase with no further meaning. Composition Dusk at Cubist Castle is a double album that is 74 minutes in length and comprises 27 songs. Critics have described Dusk at Cubist Castle as an eclectic album that encompasses a variety of genres, including indie pop, neo-psychedelia, and psychedelic pop. Jason Ankeny of AllMusic also notes the experimentation with other genres, including krautrock, noise music, and folk rock. While discussing the music as a whole, Stereogum wrote: "Dusk At Cubist Castle is a superhuman effort of maximalist analog production, sonically distended