The Olivia Tremor Control – The Same Place

The third and final full-length, double album from the Elephant 6 Recording Co. co-founders. Their first record in 27 years from the Athens, GA band.

A legend is a heavy thing to carry. It has been 27 years since the last album by The Olivia Tremor Control. In that time, they have influenced countless bands, been the subject of documentaries and biographies, and now, finally, improbably, there is a third Olivia Tremor Control album.

In the 1990s, The Olivia Tremor Control released two albums of experimental and psychedelic pop genius, Music from the Unrealized Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996), and Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 (1999). As founding members of the Elephant 6 collective, they redefined the US underground scene, injecting bright paisley colors and sonic adventure into a scene weighed down by grim irony and a fear of pretension.

Work began on the album as far back as 2005 but progress was slowed by other projects, other responsibilities, but in 2010, the band of Hart, Doss, John Fernandes, Pete Erchick, Eric Harris, and Derek Almstead began to record. By 2011 The Olivia Tremor Control had reemerged as a fully active band and added AJ Griffin to the lineup as well as touring members Scott Spillane and Robbie Cucchario. The band was now recording constantly and were fast on their way to completing the album.

Then in the summer of 2012, Bill Doss suddenly, tragically passed away. With everyone still in shock and grieving, work on The Same Place came to a halt. Every attempt to resume the project stalled until 2023, when, after watching the Elephant 6 Documentary, Athens producer/musician Jason NeSmith came on board to help. In 2024, with the album nearly finished, Will Hart unexpectedly passed away. Drawing on Will's extensive collections of notes, The Same Place was finally completed by the surviving band members, the broader Elephant 6 community, and producers Derek Almstead, Jason NeSmith, and Ron Kwasman. The Same Place does everything The Olivia Tremor Control ever did well. It also does it better, and goes further, than anyone could have imagined was possible.

Disc 1

1. Begin Now!
2. Advice from the Oceans
3. Timewaster
4. Spinning Continuous
5. Same Old Place
6. Useful Planet, Partially Yellow
7. We Captured a Frame
8. Meeting Ourselves
9. Striping the Orchestra
10. Halfway Down
11. Now Begin
12. Have We Come Round Again?
13. California Demise 4
14. Path of the Parallels I - Follow the Path
15. Path of the Parallels II - It's Obvious
16. Path of the Parallels III - a River of White
17. Path of the Parallels IV - Membraned Wings
18. Path of the Parallels V - Universe Café
19. Path of the Parallels VI - Last Occupants
20. Path of the Parallels VII - the Same Place
21. Leaf
22. Seen It All
23. Garden of Light
24. It's Not Impossible for Golden Times
25. Mirrors Hear Us
26. Impressions Through the Ring
27. Fossil Faun

Label: Elephant 6 Recording

Catalog: 33

Genre: Rock