Olivia Tremor Control: "North Term Reality":

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Athens, Georgia experimental pop heroes the Olivia Tremor Control never exactly broke up, but other than a couple of quasi-reunion tours, they've lain dormant since 2000. Last year, co-leader Will Cullen Hart told us that the band was recording again. And now, the band has set a new track, "North Term Reality", out into the world. You can hear it above.

"North Term Reality" appears on the compilation AUX Vol. 2, which the experimental art event and publication series AUX will release on October 19. The Instruments' Heather McIntosh curated the comp, and it's limited to a tiny run of 250, with packaging hand-printed silkscreen on archival paper. We've got the tracklist below.

As for the sputtering instrumental "North Term Reality", Cullen Hart plays on the song, along with John Fernandes, Charlie Johnston, and Bill Doss. The band recorded the track sometime over the past year. It started as an improvised jam recorded Johnston's house, before the band ran it through a ton of modified pedals at Hart's house and then added instruments at Doss' A World as Myth studio. Don't expect to hear a single trace of pop here.

AUX Vol. 2:

01 Derek Almstead: "Bamboo Beach Ball"

02 Visitations: "Haunted Theme"

03 Hannah Jones: "Voice Layers"

04 Orthopedics: "Dreamweavers 2"

05 The Olivia Tremor Control: "North Term Reality"

06 Jessica Pavone and Mary Halvorson: "Hartford"

07 Killick: "Spine, and You"

08 Jay Nackashi: "My Earthly Creature"

09 feltbattery: "thrasher"

10 Dave McDonnell: "Song of Overtones"

11 Our New Silence: "The Silence Saved Us (By Kai Riedl)"

12 Mohtzégorf: "Two Hammers and a Tone"

13 Spider Veins: "China Girls Being Baptized in a Subterranean Centrifuge"

14 Jeremiah Cymerman, Nate Wooley, Christopher Hoffman, Aaron Siegel: "abidimulifukermanti"

15 Melted Men: "Seahorses"

16 horaflora: "The Hesitation, Visitated"

17 Dark Meat: "Changes Will Come, Ignore Them, What's Important Is We Sing Like Vikings Pt. 3"