Search - Antimatter :: Lights Out

Foreboding, yet peaceful

Dale Lammers | Grand Prairie, Texas | 08/14/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The light from a small fire pierces the fog-shrouded night to reveal the ghostly image of a beautiful woman in a white gown sitting on a stump by a lake. The ghost is crying because she mourns the loss of a loved one and she is doomed to sing dirges bemoaning her sense of sorrow and comfortable isolation. Her songs carry across the calm lake and soothe the damp night air.



Sounds kinda cool, doesn't it? Mind you, there are no songs on Antimatter's latest CD about this scenario, but that's the overall feel of it. Musically speaking, there is nothing even remotely heavy about this one, but dammit if "The Art of a Soft Landing," "Expire" and "In Stone" don't make you yearn for the sunrise of a cool, damp fall morning. Strangely peaceful and soothing stuff here.

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Lights out as you hit the ground..........

Gavin Moore | Gateshead. England | 11/23/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A product of ex Anathema's Duncan Patterson, he and Mick Moss have together made some of the deepest darkest most intriguing music I've ever heard, it's not metal or anything, more like their brand of darkwave.

Technical yet minimalist it's a mix of some nice string work (acoustic, violin), with clever use of synth, programming, keyboards and excellent vocal work from Mick Moss and guests such as Michelle Richfield (Ex-Dominion). Here you will find some excellent sound-scapes and some haunting melodies heaped with atmosphere and nice vocal arrangements.

Highlights in my opinion would be the title track `Lights Out', this starts with the sound of an eerie air raid siren and the vocals sound is equally as eerie with male and female vocals together as if they are one voice, there is also a heart monitor style `beep' throughout the track that sounds very ominous.

Other strong tracks are `The Art of a soft landing' and the instrumental piece `terminal' (but then again the whole album is very good!), other works worth checking out would be the album `Saviour'. There is also a virtual album `Unreleased 1998 - 2003' available for download from their site if you wanted to check them out as I did, then you can buy the albums!! Highly recommended :)

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