BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM A life spent on the

A life spent on the road is reflected in the frequent geographical name checks on the record—from Pensacola to Paris to the New Jersey Turnpike— alongside Sullivan’s jubilance in revealing influences that range from classic film noir to Andrew Lloyd Weber to the seedy underbelly of Old Hollywood to Ani DiFranco

the musicians collectively conjured the focus and fire of their seminal early output augmented by airtight songcraft and a heightened level of musical chemistry that could only be forged by years of writing and touring together

” That frustration manifests itself on songs like “Overrated

“The Dacios are heavy the way the MC5 were heavy – not just a raucous and groovy band that kicked jams

BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM A life spent on 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