Ox American Lo Fi. Release Date : October 17, 2006. Label: Killbeat Music. Rating: Delightful. (Screw points. To each his own!) So far this is reminding me a bit of a Canadian folk Pearl Jam/Counting Crows thing. So no, not like, say, Wintersleep... much more dirt-roads and country-cabins than that. There's also a bit of twangy Hayden charm in it. It's not bad, slow, though I find myself drifting away from paying much attention to it as it's playing along here. I don't know if that's because it's too congruent and drifty perhaps... but it's nice. A lot of the songs are sweet on their own before it all gets old as a whole. I like "1913." take out the boring stuff... Song of choice : "Martas Song" is really cute with Marta "forgot all the words". But "El Camino Pt 1" and "Awkward Beauty" are really snazzy. -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere Ox website Published : January, 2007.