Filed under: Ox
Dope-soaked, derelict and wired, American Lo Fi features 11 songs that give a nod to Velvet Underground and Bruce Springsteen, trading New Jersey urban fairground for Pacific interstate moonscape. Ox’s long awaited follow-up to the seminal alt-country/indie hybrid classic Dust Bowl Revival, fuses weary with vicious, punk with hillbilly, the farmer-in-the-city with the electro-magnetic aura of tape hiss and amp crackle. American Lo Fi was recorded in the manic confines of Vancouver’s Profile Studios (a.k.a. Upstairs Sound Laboratory) amid a plume of smoke, sweat and heavy Pacific-laced air.
Genre: Americana, Roots-Pop
Sounds Like: Wilco, Magnolia Electric Company
“Touchingly organic… like Wilco‘s early material or Whiskey Town before them, Ox‘s live set sounds at once both timeless and unmistakably of its era. If there was ever a need to strip music down to its raw elements, Ox has the purity and grace to pull it off. And that’s easily enough to raise them high above the crowd.“
- Drowned In Sound
Civilization
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Sugar Cane
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