Written by Zombee0804 on 16.12.2020 at 17:07

An incredibly emotional and atmospheric album. You can hear the sorrow dripping for his vocals. Mostly slow but occassional bursts of energy/anger. An album which needs wayyy more attention. Seriously incredible

Yeah, after all it's Antimatter's Mick Moss.
However, in retrospect I think that something is missing here. It hurts to say that, but Mick Moss without Duncan Patterson is just a voice. Granted, he delivers one of the most beautiful and touching vocal performances in rock - not just here, he always does - but still, it's only his voice adding an exceptional quality to this album.
I only wish he would not just be an outstanding singer but also an exceptionally gifted songwriter, then this would have easily been my album of the year 2014.

Written by Starvynth on 21.12.2020 at 01:29

Written by Zombee0804 on 16.12.2020 at 17:07

An incredibly emotional and atmospheric album. You can hear the sorrow dripping for his vocals. Mostly slow but occassional bursts of energy/anger. An album which needs wayyy more attention. Seriously incredible

Yeah, after all it's Antimatter's Mick Moss.
However, in retrospect I think that something is missing here. It hurts to say that, but Mick Moss without Duncan Patterson is just a voice. Granted, he delivers one of the most beautiful and touching vocal performances in rock - not just here, he always does - but still, it's only his voice adding an exceptional quality to this album. I only wish he would not just be an outstanding singer but also an exceptionally gifted songwriter, then this would have easily been my personal AOTY 2014.

if I remember right Duncan left after the second Antimatter album and a lot of great music came from Antimatter since then.

Written by JoHn Doe on 21.12.2020 at 01:51
If I remember right Duncan left after the second Antimatter album and a lot of great music came from Antimatter since then.

That's true, but he still wrote half of the tracks for the third album Planetary Confinement.

Well, I guess it's a matter of taste.
I truly adore their first three albums, each of them to the same extent (expressed in numbers: 9/10), and I also consider Leaving Eden to be a very good offering, but their subsequent discography didn't do anything for me. I didn't even bother to rate their recent albums and despite of quite a few attempts of getting into the post-Patterson-phase, I find it very difficult to name only one outstanding song from their later albums, let alone to remember any melody or passage that somehow sticked out.