Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle
by The Olivia Tremor Control

Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle by The Olivia Tremor Control
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-08-06
Overall rank: 1,689th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 202 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (28th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (302nd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,689th)

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Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle is ranked as the best album by The Olivia Tremor Control.

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 1,689th | 1990s rank: 302nd | 1996 rank: 28th

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 202 votes)
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22 hours ago RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,52436/100
 
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05/26/2026 21:58 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  12,06270/100
 
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05/18/2026 12:36 eclecticwarrior  Ratings distribution  3781/100
 
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12/09/2025 05:22 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.

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75/100
From 12/02/2020 20:00 | #261830


An unusual but not unique album of disparate sounds that are both experimental and unorthodox and yet are set within an overall structure of traditional psychedelic/pop. The extreme position taken up by the indeterminate soundscapes contrast well in places with the more accessible songs but for me this is not always the case.
The album is punctuated with some excellent tracks but I think suffers from its length and obsession with the radical.
This is not the best album from the Elephant 6 as it falls well short of Aeroplane over the Sea and Circulatory System.
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95/100
From 02/19/2020 03:13 | #247984
pretty much the most underrated band ever
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85/100
From 11/05/2017 22:19 | #200816
Best Tracks: Jumping Fences, Dusk At Cubist Castle
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70/100
From 04/04/2015 16:23 | #138806
Unfortunately, this failed to truly grab my attention. It has its fair share of slightly beatlesque sorta catchy moments, but dwells too much in spaced-out instrumental jerk-off mode. I found it boring, messy and kinda forgettable!
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From 03/02/2014 22:49 | #105187
Throughout the album I was reminded of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'.
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100/100
From 01/25/2014 06:35 | #101460
Definitely the best Elephant 6 band
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From 11/08/2013 15:06 | #91277
Top 1000 bitches!!!!
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From 11/08/2013 13:21 | #91260
Aw yeah, Top 1,000!
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90/100
From 04/09/2013 17:38 | #72223
Almost entirely informed by the Beatles, the album still rises above anything else to come out of the Elephant 6 collective.
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From 11/05/2012 06:25 | #54262
The best Elephant 6 Album, and one of my all time favorites.
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