BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM shakes the window panes until

shakes the window panes until they beg for mercy

This album is the way it is because normality is not a figure present in Gary Wilson's mind

the complete opposite to his "Man in Black" image

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

” He doesn’t know

BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM shakes the window panes untilWoods' 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