The song cycle is so strong on this collection that Toronto Star journalist John Sakamoto made two tracks his top pick in his Anti-Hit-List column, ""#1. `Surrender` & `Miss Idaho`- Unable to choose between these two songs from the Vancouver band`s follow-up to the stunning Dust Bowl Revival, We finally gave up and picked both of them. The former is an unlikely loping country re-make of Cheap Tricks`s signature tune; the latter is a melancholy, Neil Young-ish original that is reminiscent of the sound that Jay Farrar has refined both on his own and with Son Volt, Wilco, and Uncle Tupelo. `Miss Idaho` certainly holds its own with anything those two gentlemen have done in years." Shain Shapiro wrote in View Magazine, ". . . Ox has returned with American Lo-Fi, a set that is even better than Dust Bowl Revival. A drunken, impressively personal expose in song -- one that shakes the demons in all of us. Brooding, bacchanalian, repressively sweet, good natured and smart, Ox has once again reached the acme in `Canadiana`." All, told, a fantastic collection of roots pop. (weewerk)
