BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM There are elements of the

There are elements of the American Primitive thread present

What follows are nine more songs of urgent and thrilling pop dazzle

” That frustration manifests itself on songs like “Overrated

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BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM There are elements of theWoods' melodies bring to mind Scott Walker's dramatic tunefulness, while his voice holds something of Gordon Gano's waver, pushed through New Zealand vowel mangling. Dispeller's arrangements hit at the subtle, reactive instrumentation of late era Fugazi, the glowing murk of Grouper, the Antipodean gothic drudge of Tall Dwarfs, and the mechanical outer crust of Sparklehorse. However, while Woods experiments with the disparate and the disharmonious, it