The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band associated with the Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands which also includes Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Apples in Stereo. The band was founded in 1994 and disbanded in early 2000, though they have reunited sporadically since.

The band exemplifies the following tropes:

 * Apocalypse How: "California Demise"
 * Baroque Pop
 * Concept Album: Or concept discography.
 * Mind Screw
 * Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly
 * Psychedelic Rock
 * Serial Escalation: Often. For example, most of the shorter tracks on Black Foliage Animation Music are variations on the basic tracks for the song "Black Foliage"; in turn, the super-brief "Combinations" tracks are remixes of those remixes; and the B-side to the album single "Hideaway", also entitled "Combinations", is seemingly a three-minute remix of those remixed remixes... Savvy?
 * Shut In: Possibly the narrator of "Sylvan Screen".
 * The Walrus Was Paul: It's often to tell where the actual "concept" of much of their work ends and the joke begins.
 * What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The eternal question.