Lost Ox’s new album, Earthsnake, IS OUT NOW

Listen to the digital album right now and help us get it printed to vinyl by preordering today! You can also purchase the digital mp3 version from our store (or a WAV/FLAC version from BandCamp).

// liner notes //
From deep within our minds deep within NE Portland, OR comes… EARTHSNAKE. 468 days after we began our quest we have returned with 78 minutes of deluxe, 4-dimensional music designed specifically to be good to your earholes.

Utilizing only our brains and the most retro-modern antique futuristic equipment available we labored under cover of darkness, enduring multiple vegan donut shortages that left us with none but our hearts to guide. (And thankfully our hearts, obviously taxed by repeated exposure to plant-based fried dough product, didn’t fail us.)

Music starts at home, and to paraphrase Bob Marley, “My home is in my head.” These songs have been a part of us for some time, but now their turn has come to graze upon the green grass of other minds. We hope they may tickle your neurons delightfully.

“But, why,” you ask — “Why ‘EARTHSNAKE’?” Well, let us answer your question with another: Does a bear fish in a bush? If a tree falls in the forest does the cat on the third branch always land butter side down?

Fortunately, we’re still searching for the answers, too.

Lost Ox
3/7/21

VINYL PRESALE NOW AVAILABLE

You can now pre-order your EARTHSNAKE deluxe double vinyl LP directly from us, the band! Thinking about getting the double LP but hesitant about pre-order? Printing an album to vinyl is expensive. Pre-ordering helps the band not break the bank while we finish the production phase of this project. Thanks for your support!

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Reed Bunnell - bass; piano on track 7
Scot Cowherd - drums
Dylan DiSalvio - guitar
Dave Dernovsek - piano & rhodes, tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 10
Chris LeClare Stevenson - b3 organ, tracks 1- 6, 7 - 11
Rich Landar - piano, tracks 5 and 11
Alex Weinberg - rhodes, tracks 8, and 11

Recorded by Tony Olander in Portland, OR at Ruby Machine Studio in three sessions: November 2019, January 2020, and August 2020
Mixed by Tony Olander at Tone Zone Studio in Portland, OR
Mastered by Jack Yaguda / YagudaSonics
Produced by Lost Ox and Tony Olander

Tracks 1, 9 - music by Dylan DiSalvio, Mark Mullen, and Lost Ox, words by Dylan DiSalvio; tracks 3 - 6, 8 - 11, words and music by Dylan DiSalvio and Lost Ox; tracks 2 and 7, words and music by Reed Bunnell and Lost Ox

Album cover artwork by Ellie Chase (@elliechaseart)

This album wouldn't have been possible without the help of many friends, loved ones, and Postmates delivery persons. Thanks especially to Alex Wilkins (for enduring our constant presence), Emily White and Holly Butcher (for enduring our constant absence), to Landon Fowler (for crucial camaraderie), and many others.