INFO: Flight tests. That's what Oakley Hall's previous efforts feel like after cranking I'll Follow You, the band's high-flying new record and debut for Merge. Working with producers Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) and Nicolas Vernhes (Fiery Furnaces, Ted Leo, Silver Jews) the Brooklyn sextet has finally mastered how to best record and capture its wholly original rock & roll on this, their fourth full length. Of course, there are familiar musical touchstones - Richard & Linda Thompson, X, Doug Sahm, Neu!, the Funk Brothers, The Feelies - but in the age of retro-everything, Oakley Hall reveals its knotted bloodlines in the course of severing itself from them. With I'll Follow You the sextet fully comes into its own.
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