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The Haints of Dean Hall debut album has been released on Arch Hill Recordings, July 2006. www.archhill.co.nz
Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times, 16 July 2006, gave the Haints FIVE STARS, and described the album as "Soft and Spooky Aotearoa Gothic."
"It's a lovely and deeply moving record. Nostalgic, too. "Wait til Your Father Comes Home" makes my eyes tear up and my bum throb from memories of my old man over-eagerly applying the wooden spoon after one of my childhood misdemeanors. Elsewhere, "Pocketbook" threatens to wake the baby with a churn of Eastern-sounding electric guitar chords, "In the Golden Age" channels the sleepy slur of Cat Power, and the two songs "Forelock of Gold" and "Silver Apparition" are the closest any local musicians have come to the gloriously exhausted hillbilly soul of Californian singer Gillian Welch."
The result is an album rich in atmosphere, steeped in stoic sadness, made in New Zealand but peopled by mysterious American ghosts."
