Wildheart, by Lost Ox

Wildheart

by Lost Ox

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1.	Wildheart 07:29	lyrics	buy track
Through thicket trees and cobblestone seas down trails yet unsung with bramble brush in vernal flush rise my young green ones Just to break their newborn layer for that warm breath of the sky The bloom that burst the ages first still flowering tonight Wildheart Awake in the trees alight in the woods alive in the seas Wildheart Afloat on the breeze Listen here to the water clear and the rhythm of the tide In the swamps and fields and mountain heels in woods and desert high in between the woven green with tooth and bitter maw The water wakes in every shape that swims flies and crawls Wildheart Awake in the trees alight in the woods alive in the seas Wildheart Afloat on the breeze
2.	The Edge 03:07	lyrics	buy track
You with that hunger in your eye You looking for a place to hide You can come around, you can come inside We all been broke down and hung out to dry We can keep it cool laugh and talk real sweet But if you come to hurt my brother well then you gonna feel the heat You with that violence in your step You with your ragged bated breath You been hanging round like a wolf amongst the sheep Your twisted eye fixed by your hunt for easy meat I'm a quick draw razor high-stepping from end to end. and if you come to hurt my sister well then you gonna feel the edge You gonna feel the edge
3.	Blue Dream 04:22	lyrics	buy track
water wash them waves wide across that country side to that solitary island dream prison of my mind climbin up them peaks and busrsting at the seams but I just can't wake up from this blue dream lying on your back turned out on the street well it ain't much different than being big boss on top of the heap gonna lose that feeling gonna drop out of the scene gonna float away on that blue dream now them clouds are in full cover in their prismal plated greys a chill hangs in the air and it's cold on lightest days even when that sun shine thru well just as soon it leaves gonna be one more morning of that same blue dream gonna be one more time it'll be just like it seem the ocean is calling me, way out to sea gonna float away on this blue dream
4.	Passin' By 03:39	lyrics	buy track
she give me some but just a taste of what i need yeah but just one taste ain't enough to satisfy me i catch a quick foot fox with fire in her eye but i was the one who got caught in a trap so sly and that lovins just passin' by don't you wanna take it for a ride? and that train goes by so fast don't you want that lovin' to last? when that night falls when that sky does moan when the earth shakes when the tempest rips the stone when the fire goes out leaving nothing all alone feel it deep down, deep down in my bones and that lovins just passin' by don't you wanna take it for a ride? and that train goes by so fast don't you want that lovin' to last?
5.	Emerald Sun 05:15	lyrics	buy track
in the valley of the emerald sun where the ruby river rolls by the banks where the river bends lie the waters of my home dark is the night and cold is the storm I dream a land so gentle and warm where the sun don’t burn my eyes salt don’t taint my tea out past the emerald sun beyond the crystal sea I taste that bitter southwind feel the dust on my skin every castle tall will fall and bleak to a battered ruin the last words our captain wept before he sailed into infinity farewell to the emerald sun so long to the crystal sea this whole world of colors, lights and sounds and electricity it’ll never be the same as home sweet home to me merrily cried the mariner as he paddled out to the deep farewell to the emerald sun and so long to the crystal sea many nights I spent there just rollin’ in her arms the green wood tumbling with glee just laughing out my woes on honey-bottled mead while the river rock me slowly to sleep in the valley of the emerald sun where the ruby river rolls by the banks where the river bends lie the waters of my home
6.	Travelin' Blues 03:24	lyrics	buy track
each night when that moonlight hits and the sun is sinkin low and you don't know where to lie where your bed roll gonna unroll let the song of the road teach you what you wanna know and the rhythm of the wheels gonna show what needs to show got them travelin blues got em most all the time wont you bring that good stuff I'll bring the wine I'll be digging on some half-struck verse riffing on the line I got them travelin' blues and I got 'em most all the time half-spun up that crooked branch I was so high I couldn't see I'd lost about half my sense but I was damn sure I was free now I lie awake each night well with lockjaw and sore feet and my bunkmate snoring up a log like he's sawing down some tree got them travelin blues got em most all the time wont you bring that good stuff I'll bring the wine I'll be digging on some half-struck verse riffing on the line I got them travelin' blues and I got 'em most all the time got them travelin blues got em most all the time wont you bring that good stuff I'll bring the wine I'll be digging on some half-struck verse riffing on the line I got them travelin' blues and I got 'em most all the time
7.	Sleepwalker 05:53	lyrics	buy track
the words come without pronunciation and it all goes down just like a dream I’m floating thru these moments that I’m waking My body keeps on moving but it aint me wake amongst these crumbs and ruination all them empty bottles and dirty old beer cans I don’t know where I’ve been or what’s been happening But I know damn sure I am what I am I’m the sleepwalker the dream talker I’m the sleepwalker and this dream seems so real to me if I awake from this sleep what other dreams my heart may keep? what other songs my voice may sing? when did it start and when will it end? now atop that hill in confrontation all them animal eyes stare straight at me hanging man says son one last consideration we’ll write your words by the stone where we lay you be I’m the sleep walker dream talker I’m the sleep walker and this dream seems so real this dream seems so real this dream seems so real to me (Reed) if I awake from this sleep what other dreams my heart may keep? If I awake from this sleep? what other dreams my heart may keep? (Mark) words come without pronunciation all goes down just like a dream floatin thru these moments that I’m waking body keeps on movin but it aint me (Dylan) Sleepwalker I’m a dreamtalker I’m a Sleepwalker I’m a dream talker sleepwalker dream talker sleepwalker and this dream seems so real to me
8.	Jan 03:44		buy track
9.	Run Me Wild 07:53	lyrics	buy track
i seen that noose upon my door it seemed the latch had come undone i can't fake it anymore it seems that race too quick to run and sometimes it feels like I'm moving much too slow run me sleepless, run me wild run me hot, run me down run me till my legs break till I’m 6 feet under ground turn and twist my senses pull my closed eyes open wide cuz the wick’s been lit the spark’s been switched and now the motion don’t subside can’t slow it down no I can’t stay My short life keeps ticking away ticking away ticking away ticking away ticking away rising ever faster, ever higher past the moon reckless ride the serpent light the frigid fuse straining every muscle every fibrous sinew but the pace it ever quickens, ever hastens it’s coming to can’t slow it down no I can’t stay My short life keeps ticking away ticking away keeps ticking away ticking away and away and away
10.	Jim 07:46		buy track

about

"Wildheart", the first full-length offering from Portland, OR-based rock quartet, Lost Ox, is both reflective and prescriptive in its nature, representing years of accumulated songs and musical stories and simultaneously calcifying a roadmap for the band's further growth and exploration. Like the band, the album cannot be encapsulated into one genre or one mood, and defies simple thematic explanation. It is, like many albums, a collage of histories, interwoven and interspersed amongst each other, all the meanings confused and corroborated, all the conclusions both simultaneous and singular.

Sometimes exuberant, sometimes melancholy, the album takes many turns; the music billowed by lofty ascending chords to tight and incisive climax only to be rapidly spun southward to a dissonant, chromatic stalagtite with a punchy foot-moving rhythm part. The next song’s cool, funky feel seems a world to itself, independent of the preceding madness, until the end, when the improvisational portion of the song rapidly cascades to a similarly moving height, recalling the vibrant nature of the previous tunes.

The dramatic variety is a hallmark of the band, birthed in early 2017 from the vibrant music scene of Portland, OR. Like the various facets of the scene in Portland--bouncing from gutter punk-rock to airy Burning Man-esque tribal bass music, or from cowboy-boot wearing country rockers to neo-funk psychedelic shredders--the music of Lost Ox can't quite be put into one hat. And, just like the scene itself, is something that can only be experienced.

Darby Doowop
March 2017
Muse Cycle Monthly

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released March 22, 2018

Lost Ox is Reed Bunnell (bass, vocals), Dylan DiSalvio (guitar, vocals), Mark Mullen (keyboards, vocals), and Mike Stavish (drum kit, percussion). “Travelin’ Blues” with Sydney Nash on slide guitar.

Recorded and mixed by Justin Phelps at The Hallowed Halls in Portland, OR. Mastered by Jack Yaguda in New York, NY. Produced by Lost Ox.

Front cover art by Amber Anderson (@love_embargo). Back cover art by Cara Sheahan (@carasheahan.art) 

Special thanks to Greg Allen, Ido Avraham, Joel Davis, Kari Goldstein, The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge, The Starday Tavern, and Pieper Cafe

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Lost Ox Portland, Oregon

Genre-blending jammers Lost Ox are based out of Portland, OR. The band, known for combining elements of funk, psychedelia, jazz, Americana, and progressive rock, was formed in 2017. Rooted both in the jamband resurgence of the 1990s and the original 1960s psychedelic rock revolution, their style encompasses many familiar jam tropes, executed and reimagined with an inspired, dauntless precision. ... more

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