Nic Dalton

Nic Dalton has been releasing records under various names since 1985. While with revered Aussie punksters the Plunderers, Nic began to develop a more historically anchored power pop style which he evolved with his subsequent bands Godstar and Sneeze, and label Half-a-Cow Records. Typically, Godstar was named after a Psychic TV single. In what amounts to an indie rock artist's colony concept, bonds were formed with Alison Galloway and Tom Morgan of Smudge, and Evan Dando, who's Lemonheads were transformed by the song-skills of Dalton and Morgan on their album "It's a Shame About Ray". Nic and Tom toured extensively with the Lemonheads at this stage, allowing more collaborations with like-minds world-wide. Brief moments of VU-style fuzz, drone psychedelia surface throughout Godstar's work, although not to the extent that some of us would like, but I guess that's our problem. However, the extremely psychedelic nature of the Love & Death material is ample reward for those of us who were waiting for Dalton to explore some of his more experimental leanings.