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Though Oxes have yet to bottle the adrenaline rush that is their live show, Oxxxes captured the trio’s taut tumult in wide-screen high-fidelity, making for the band’s best-sounding recording yet. But it’s not always clear what Oxes like best—the joke wrapped in a riddle hiding under a trick that can be their conceptual framework, or the blistering guitar and drum interplay that’s more intricate and tightly wound than a golf ball’s core. At some point those two idea streams may cross when the band’s in the studio, and if they do, watch out.

Read more in the December 18, 2002 Local Music Feature.

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