[2] His parents, both interior designers, divorced and moved around the country, leading Hart to spend parts of his childhood in Alabama, Colorado, and Texas before returning to Ruston in ninth grade.

The teenagers shared a passion and interest in home recording, influenced by John Cage, punk rock, krautrock, and 1960s psychedelic bands like The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Zombies.

The Olivia Tremor Control's first release was the extended play (EP) California Demise in 1994, which presented many of the band's signature elements, like, for example, complex vocal harmonization.

As a result of this, Hart formed his next project: Circulatory System with some ex-members of the Olivia Tremor Control, which released their debut album in 2001.

[7] The band started working on a new album (even though Circulatory System continued), and released two new singles, although the recording process was slowed after Doss' death due to an aneurysm at the age of 43 in 2012.

"[5] On November 29, 2024, the Olivia Tremor Control released the singles "Garden of Light" and "The Same Place", the band's first new music in 13 years, as part of the soundtrack for the documentary The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (2022).