BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP t-shirt "Lo-fi it may be

"Lo-fi it may be

blew us here at Artless Cuckoo away: punchy drum machines

and Persuaders

classical and a touch of jazz come together

The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music

BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP t-shirt "Lo-fi it may beWoods' 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