The Sunshine Fix

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The Sunshine Fix, 2005

The Sunshine Fix is the solo project of The Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss. The name predates the Olivia Tremor Control and is currently in use.

Doss started the project while in high school, going as far as to self-release an album on cassette called A Spiraling World of Pop, later re-released under the Elephant Six banner. Doss then met up with W. Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum; together, they formed the Olivia Tremor Control, and the Sunshine Fix moniker was put into hiatus (although, as an aside, it became the title of an Olivia Tremor Control song, which appears on the Singles and Beyond compilation).

Following the dismantling of Olivia Tremor Control in 2000, Doss began recording under the Sunshine Fix name again, releasing a single and preparing an EP, which was released by Kindercore Records in 2000, featuring members of Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal, Elf Power, and others.

In 2001, the Doss formed a more stable band, adding Kevin Sweeney and Sam Mixon, and released The Age of the Sun on Emperor Norton Records. A tour with Guster followed, and they continued recording, releasing Green Imagination in 2004. Although the record received a generally muted critical reception, the band continued to tour in its support. Doss also continues to record songs for a new Sunshine Fix album, though he notes that the new material has a darker direction - "more Leonard Cohen than John Lennon" [1].

1 Discography
2 External links

[edit] Discography

The Sunshine Fix have released many albums and EPs on a variety of record labels.

[edit] Albums

A Spiraling World of Pop (Elephant 6; Cassette; 1993)
Age of the Sun (Emperor Norton/Kindercore; CD; 2002)
Green Imagination (spinART Records; CD; 2004)

[edit] EPs and Singles

Sunshine Fix (Elephant 6; 7"; 1999)
The Future History of a Sunshine Fix (Kindercore; CD; 2000)
That Ole Sun (Emperor Norton; 7"; 2001

[edit] Compilation appearances

"Friends Win" on The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes And Villains (Rhino; CD; 2000)
"Currency Exchange Communion" on U.S. Pop Life, Volume 5 - Athens: The Invention to be Nobody & Nowhere (Contact; CD; 2000)
"Ordinary Extraordinary" on Kindercore Fifty (Kindercore; CD; 2000)
"Sounds Around You" on Beikoku Ongaku Vol.16 (Beikoku Ongaku; CD; 2000)

[edit] External links

The Sunshine Fix at All Music Guide

The Elephant Six Collective
Bands in the Collective
The Apples in Stereo \| Beulah \| Black Swan Network \| Chocolate USA \| Circulatory System \| Dixie Blood Mustache \| Dressy Bessy \| Elf Power \| The Essex Green \| Frosted Ambassador \| The Gerbils \| The High Water Marks \| Major Organ and the Adding Machine \| Marbles \| The Minders \| The Music Tapes \| Neutral Milk Hotel \| The Olivia Tremor Control \| Orchestre Fantastique \| Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't \| Secret Square \| The Sunshine Fix \| ulysses \| Von Hemmling
Other Noted Bands and Side Projects
The American Revolution \| Bablicon \| Fablefactory \| Great Lakes \| A Hawk and a Hacksaw \| Icy Demons \| The Instruments \| The Ladybug Transistor \| The Late B.P. Helium \| M Coast \| Marta Tennae \| Midget and Hairs \| My First Keyboard \| Of Montreal \| Synthetic Flying Machine \| Thimble Circus \| Visitations
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Bill Doss \| Jeff Mangum \| Robert Schneider \| Will Cullen Hart \| Hilarie Sidney \| Laura Carter \| Jeremy Barnes \| Jill Carnes \| David Barnes \| Julian Koster