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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Alternative Press	4/5
The Austin Chronicle
The A.V. Club	A
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
NME	8/10
Pitchfork	9.1/10
Q
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Spin	7/10

Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle is the debut studio album by 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.

Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle was produced by The Olivia Tremor Control and Robert Schneider, with creative input from The Elephant 6 Orchestra. The album was begun between 1993 and 1996 on 4-track cassette recorder, then completed at producer/engineer Schneider's Pet Sounds Recording Studio on 8-track reel-to-reel. Album artwork and design was created by W. Cullen Hart and Bill Doss.

In a contemporary review of Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, Tom Cox of NME called The Olivia Tremor Control "experts at combining the absurd with the uplifting". Jason Cohen of The Austin Chronicle remarked that, with the exception of the "random bursts and transient noise" of "Green Typewriters", Dusk at Cubist Castle is "an embarrassment of pop riches, a mildly psychedelic, lavishly melodic quasi-masterpiece."Alternative Press praised the album as "a perfect psych-pop explosion", while Q called it "a soundscape where anything can, and frequently does, happen". It ranked at number 37 on The Village Voice's year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.

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