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Oakley Hall

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Oakley Hall
Gypsum Strings
(BRAH)
Released: June 6, 2006

***PRESS RELEASE***
Long regarded as one of the best live acts in New York, Oakley Hall has finally delivered on the promise of its collective talent and the energy of its live shows with the upcoming masterpiece Gypsum Strings, their second full-length release this year. While the first, Second Guessing (Amish), established Oakley Hall as one of the premier roots rock bands in the land, Gypsum Strings (released June 9 via Brah Records) turns the volume way up and traditions on their heads.

Building on the straighter Second Guessing blueprint, Gypsum Strings busts out of Americana norms and reimagines Laurel Canyon as made of steel and glass. The band¹s dynamic range and killer songwriting chops are in evidence as they careen from shredding urban rockers ("Confidence Man" and "Lazy Susan") to spare and haunting balladry ("Living in Sin in the U.S.A." and "Nite Lights, Dark Days"). Their co-ed posse harmonies, which BUST magazine recently called "some of the most stunning in recent history," light up the landscape the whole way.

They'll sound like no string band in your vernacular. Which makes sense as they - although hailing originally from all over the rural American south and northeast - cut their teeth on stages with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Animal Collective, Oneida, and Liars in Brooklyn¹s rock underground. They currently call an Econoline home, but Oakley Hall will pull up to a venue near you in the coming weeks.

***PRESS REVIEWS***
Spin
"...gloriously ragged sound, with lovely male-female harmonies and just the right twinge of Appalachian twang."

Blender
"...a sound that, despite dulcimer, fiddle and banjo, can still strip the day-glo paint from your knapsack...the hollered boy-girl vocal mix, which recalls X as much as Jefferson Airplane and Fairport Convention."

***LINKS***
Oakley Hall (official)
Oakley Hall (myspace)
Brah (record label)