BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM “The Dacios are heavy the

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

Samantha Glass evolved into an outlet for drag-based performance art mixed with drum machine

the complete opposite to his "Man in Black" image

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

There are elements of the American Primitive thread present

BEN WOODS - Dispeller LP NWOBHM “The Dacios are heavy 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