004 . Interlude Part 2
It’s a pity. Duncan Patterson decided to pull the plug on Antimatter to work on his new band Ion (check Strange Lights Records for updates). Well, ok, after the third album the project will pass totally in the hands of Mick Moss, but it’s like, let’s say, Smashing Pumpkins without Billy Corgan or Beatles without Lennon. Of course I hope the best for Moss, because he already announced the next album “Leaving Eden” in collaboration with Danny Cavanagh from Anathema: with this two involved, it’s quite hard that something could go wrong.
Coming back to the album, it’s called “Planetary Confinement” and it got wonderful reviews (as expected) everywere (Album Of The Month - Zillo Magazine, Album Of The Month Shadowshire, 10/10 - Sonic Seducer Magazine, 9/10 - Orkus Magazine). Differently from the previous (and wonderful) “Lights Out” (from a review of "Lights Out": "Lights Out is the band's second CD, and you can be sure the group still hasn't discovered Prozac."), electronic music is totally gone, leaving the compositions only to acoustic instruments and voice. If you remember the heartbreaking acoustic version of “Everything you know is wrong”, you can perfectly understand what I mean. “Planetary Confinement” paints grey landscapes of melancholy, using words as they were knifes made to stab you in the soul. Titles like “The Weight Of The World” speak up loudly the atmosphere of the entire cd. Violins and tribal drums are spread through the whole opus (“Legions” or “Line Of Fire” for example). There is even an amazing cover of “Mr. White”, of Trouble. It’s sad to say that the last Antimatter album with Patterson is probably the best one. Fortunately, he’s working on a new project, and “Leaving Eden” could be a masterpiece even without
Here to listen the rough edit of the song “Legion”.
"The Last Laugh"
"Going Nowhere / Destiny"
"In Stone"
"Empty"
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