weewerk release 008: American Lo Fi
As soon as we hear Mark Browning's drawling vocals creak on the opening song "Miss Idaho", we know that Ox has delivered an album of stature.
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.
Featuring guests: Be Good Tanyas / Marta Jaciubek (Girl Nobody) / Trish Klein (Po'girl) / Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath) / Ryan Bishops (Kate Maki) / Jesse Zubot (Zubot & Dawson) / Chon (Be Good Tanyas, Red Sugar) / Ken Beattie (Radiogram) / Kingsway
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Mark Browning - vocals/guitar
Ryan Bishops - guitar/piano/vocals
Rose Murphy - drums/vocals
Shawn Dicey - bass/vocals
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