Artist description From the long, hard running american interstate comes the latest incarnation of alt-country anti-hero Mark Browning. With disdain for the singer-songwriter stereotype and a spirit of collaboration, the collective 'OX', has become Browning's new voice for the deconstructed pop song and the anthem of the musically disenfranchised. The concept is plain, reflect the hardness of this land, the spirit of the folks living on it, and blow it out like diesel exhaust. After all, it's only rock & roll. Wilted, broken, skeletal... 'americana' at it's low-fi best, the debut OX: DUST BOWL REVIVAL (to be released december, 2002) is a collection of studio weary fragments, fragile masterpieces, sonic accidents; a candid album in the truest sense. Recorded live to analog tape and spliced cassette demo recordings made across the mid-west, DUST BOWL REVIVAL is literally, a record of a record; a behind the scenes look at recording an album. Production, exposed; a musical affirmation that the air in the room is part of the song, that space is part of the song, that the musical scaffolds of count-ins and tube-amp hum are part of the song... that the song, is only a part of the song.

Music Style College, Indie, Lo-fi,

Musical Influences Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Low

Similar Artists Low, Beck, Royal City, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Prince Billy

Artist History Formed in 2000. Debut record, OX: Dust Bowl Revival (2002) only available on vinyl until 2003.

Group Members Mark Browning, Ruby Loves u, Cosmic Dave Jeffrey, Nathan Lawr, Chon

Instruments Vocals, guitars, bass, organs, drums, moog, space.

Albums Dust Bowl Revival (2003), Ballads Love Songs & Gasoline (2001)

Press Reviews "*** Headlining Vancouver songman Browning plies a sensitive but scuffed, delicate but twisted variant on the cracked alt-country thing. On the evidence of a forthcoming album, 'DUST BOWL REVIVAL' he is a significant talent." Ross Fortune, TIME OUT, LONDON UK "Corvettes, roadside diners, Hollywood; OX: Dust Bowl Revival is natural and unpolished in the spirit of modern middle-America something trashy and organic in a hot-rod cowboy style. Like riding shotgun on a liquor store heist." Chuck Molgat, Uptown Magazine, WINNIPEG "Dust Bowl Revival is honey-warm countrified pop gussied with odd time signatures, echoey sound effects, haunting acoustics and Browning's vocals. The easy grooving melodies take on a lovely patina." Kerry Gold, Vancouver Sun, VANCOUVER "The sort of guy you'd find at the back of a Saskatoon-bound Greyhound sitting next to Ron Sexsmith. Producer John Bottomley's cozy-sunset backdrop gives Browning a glimpse of the warm, classic country-rock he's shooting for. Undeniably pleasant Canadiana." Stuart Berman, Eye Magazine, TORONTO "Laid-back and lo-fi Dust Bowl Revival is just as suitable for rainy West Coast Sundays as it is for Day-Glo Oklahoma sunsets. The fragile, piano-accompanied "Stolen Car" is perfect, and when stoner-country conquers the charts, "Oh Eileen" will be hailed as a seminal, genre-defining masterpiece." Mike Usinger, Georgia Straight, VANCOUVER

Location Vancouver, BC - Canada

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