Various Artists / Elephant 6 Recording Co., The
| Album: | Elephant 6 Recording Co., The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Feb 2025 | |
| Label: | Org Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2025-04-14 | Pull Date: | 2025-07-16 |
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| Week Ending: | Jul 13 | Jun 22 | Jun 1 | May 11 | May 4 | Apr 27 | Apr 20 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 12, 2025: | Music Casserole
The Same Place |
4. | May 10, 2025: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
All Day Owl |
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| 2. | Jun 21, 2025: | Music Casserole
Ruby (Live), Oh Hi |
5. | May 10, 2025: | Music Casserole
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise |
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| 3. | May 30, 2025: | KZSU Time Traveler
Garden of Light |
6. | May 05, 2025: | Virtually Happy
The Same Place |
Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2025-04-14
Reviewed 2025-04-14
Elephant 6, the legendary collective of various bands with overlapping membership and boundless creativity, were featured in a documentary in 2022; after a few years, they have just now released a soundtrack album to accompany, featuring a wealth of deep cuts, but importantly two new Olivia Tremor Control tracks (released the same day W Cullen Hart, the surviving member of the duo, passed away); anyway, the doc is amazing, and this collection of songs is extremely varied but full of heart and joy---FCC clean!
1. (3:47) ******* Olivia Tremor Control with a new track, long in incubation: baroque, dense, fun '60s pop-psyche sound; bright, with shadowy-forest tones--lovely
2. (3:33) **** Neutral Milk Hotel medley: lo-fi, raw, snarly, punky track that becomes folkier and plummier as it goes on; originally released with Hype City Soundtrack
3. (3:18) **** The Marbles (Apples in Stereo side-project) with '60s slinky spy-movie/party song rave with lo-fi ambience, fun
4. (5:02) ** The Gerbils (lesser-known E6 group) ... atmospheric soundscape, plaintive vox over string section; very emo
5. (1:02) **** W Cullen Hart (of Olivia Tremor Control, etc) with a characteristically experimental and playful instrumental: short, plinky, atmospheric
6. (3:08) *** Elf Power, live, soulful folk ballad, drum-heavy arrangement
7. (3:16) ***** Olivia Tremor Control's other new track, similarly long in gestation: baroque, but deeper and sadder in texture and tone; contemplative and hypnotic; vox start 1:30-in
8. (5:59) **** Dixie Blood Moustache (12-piece all-woman band/film co-op) experimental, weird tape collage, originally part of short film; all rattled up, start-and-stop, bird sounds... weird, good
9. (2:03) **** Always Red Society (W Cullen Hart side project): fuzzed-out groove-heavy instrumental
10. (4:46) ***** E6 participants get together on stage to cover the Les Paul chestnut, very very bittersweet (molasses-slow, heart-wrenching)
11. (4:35) *** Apples in Stereo performing live turn their organ-backed pop-rocker into a chance for their colleagues to jam out together
1. (3:47) ******* Olivia Tremor Control with a new track, long in incubation: baroque, dense, fun '60s pop-psyche sound; bright, with shadowy-forest tones--lovely
2. (3:33) **** Neutral Milk Hotel medley: lo-fi, raw, snarly, punky track that becomes folkier and plummier as it goes on; originally released with Hype City Soundtrack
3. (3:18) **** The Marbles (Apples in Stereo side-project) with '60s slinky spy-movie/party song rave with lo-fi ambience, fun
4. (5:02) ** The Gerbils (lesser-known E6 group) ... atmospheric soundscape, plaintive vox over string section; very emo
5. (1:02) **** W Cullen Hart (of Olivia Tremor Control, etc) with a characteristically experimental and playful instrumental: short, plinky, atmospheric
6. (3:08) *** Elf Power, live, soulful folk ballad, drum-heavy arrangement
7. (3:16) ***** Olivia Tremor Control's other new track, similarly long in gestation: baroque, but deeper and sadder in texture and tone; contemplative and hypnotic; vox start 1:30-in
8. (5:59) **** Dixie Blood Moustache (12-piece all-woman band/film co-op) experimental, weird tape collage, originally part of short film; all rattled up, start-and-stop, bird sounds... weird, good
9. (2:03) **** Always Red Society (W Cullen Hart side project): fuzzed-out groove-heavy instrumental
10. (4:46) ***** E6 participants get together on stage to cover the Les Paul chestnut, very very bittersweet (molasses-slow, heart-wrenching)
11. (4:35) *** Apples in Stereo performing live turn their organ-backed pop-rocker into a chance for their colleagues to jam out together
Track Listing
| Artist | Track Name | |||
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| 1. | Olivia Tremor Control, The | Garden of Light | 3:47 | |
| 2. | Neutral Milk Hotel | Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone | 3:33 | |
| 3. | Marbles | Telescope | 3:18 | |
| 4. | Gerbils, The | Glue (Live) | 5:02 | |
| 5. | W. Cullen Hart | All Day Owl | 1:02 | |
| 6. | Elf Power | The Arrow Flies Close (Live) | 3:08 | |
| 7. | Olivia Tremor Control | The Same Place | 3:16 | |
| 8. | Dixie Blood Moustache | Oh Hi | 5:59 | |
| 9. | Always Red Society, The | Minute by Minute | 2:03 | |
| 10. | Wedding Band & Friends, The | The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise | 4:46 | |
| 11. | Apples in Stereo, The | Ruby (Live) | 4:35 |