Ox Deliver American Lo Fi Next Month

Vancouver's Ox topped the Canadian campus radio chart with 2003's Dust Bowl Revival album, and the quartet hope for even bigger things with their forthcoming American Lo Fi album.

Weewerk will release the 11-song LP, which was recorded at Vancouver's Profile Studios, on October 17. It will be available on both CD and vinyl.

In addition to core Ox members Mark Browning (vocals, guitar), Ryan Bishops (guitar, piano, vocals), Rose Murphy (drums, vocals) and Shawn Matteson (bass, vocals), American Lo Fi features guest contributions from Be Good Tanyas, Marta Jaciubek (Girl Nobody), Trish Klein (Po'girl), Kevin Kane (Grapes Of Wrath), Jesse Zubot (Zubot & Dawson), Chon (Red Sugar) and Ken Beattie (Radiogram), who also manages Ox.

There are definite elements of Dust Bowl Revival's strong alt.country influences on the new disc, and Ox even turn Cheap Trick's "Surrender" into a loping country tune, but there's also more of a punk edge to some songs. Four tracks from American Lo Fi — "Miss Idaho," "Surrender," "Sugar Cane" and "El Camino Pt. 2" — can be heard on the group's MySpace page.

Ox will tour through the fall in support of the album. Here are their dates:
September 26 Sault Ste. Marie, ON @ Loplops
October 7 Prince George, BC @ Seargent O'Flahertys
October 10 Vancouver, BC @ Media Club
October 12 Calgary, AB @ Broken City w/Square Root Of Margaret
October 13 Edmonton, AB @ Sidetrack Cafe w/Magnolia Electric Co.
October 14 Calgary, AB @ Ship & Anchor
October 20 Regina, SK @ The Exchange w/C.R. Avery
October 21 Winnipeg, MB @ Times Changed w/Nathan and Cora Luft
October 26 Wakefield, QC @ Black Sheep Inn
October 27 Sherbrooke, QC @ Cafe Bla Bla
October 28 Guelph, ON @ Jimmy Jazz
October 29 Windsor, ON @ Phog Lounge w/Ten Year Drought
November 11 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern w/Silverhearts, NQ Arbuckle and United Steelworkers Of Montreal
November 17 London, ON @ Alex P. Keaton

Here are the songs on American Lo Fi:
"Miss Idaho”
“Surrender”
“Sugar Cane”
“747”
“El Camino Pt. 2”
“Country Music Promoter”
“1913”
“Civilization”
“El Camino Pt. 1”
“Marta's Song”
“Awkward Beauty"