Black Foliage: Animation Music
by The Olivia Tremor Control
  • Record Label: Flydaddy
  • Release Date: Mar 23, 1999
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11

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  1. mvatcher35
    Sep 6, 2011
    8
    The point at which pretentious avant-garde nonsense and brilliant, brooding psychedelic pop combine to form an album that teeters on the precipice between pure perfection and pure annoyance.
  2. JimR
    Jan 12, 2006
    10
    This is a fantastic album by an underrated band. It is a worthy successor to Dusk At Cubist Castle. Black Foliage has great pop tunes and the experimental music is good. The Olivia Tremor Control is better than Neutral Milk Hotel in my opinion
  3. eded
    Jul 13, 2004
    10
    ... You're just a sleepy company, yeah, but that's alright... soundtrack to my last week in Vancouver, perfect
  4. kinifD
    May 19, 2004
    10
    this is the defining cd of my past summer of drug introduction and best times with freinds...

Awards & Rankings

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#13 Best Album of 1999
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#8 Most Discussed Album of 1999
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#9 Most Shared Album of 1999

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Rolling Stone
    60
    The Georgia collective's second album is pop at its most playful and the avant-garde at its cuddliest -- a four-act, twenty-seven-song fantasy trip in which structure and chaos keep leapfrogging each other.
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  2. Pitchfork
    91
    Insanely catchy '60s- inspired pop music in addition to sound collages, field recordings, drony ambience, cathartic noise, and outlandish production that makes Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" look like a cubicle divider.
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  3. PopMatters
    90
    Time will tell, but Black Foliage has all the marks of a major pop masterpiece -- brilliant tunes, innovative arrangements, clever lyrics, a thoroughly adventurous spirit, and a musical depth that always reveals something new on repeated listenings.
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