Antimatter

Antimatter was created by Duncan Patterson in 1997, who has since left and go on to new things, that being said Mick Moss, longterm member has continued the project and brought Antimatter in to new realms with his sensitive and more acoustic-focused melodies and riffs, whilst maintaining the introspection I’ve come to expect. The melancholic rock band have a wonderful knack for deep and profound lyrics that seem to highlight the fragility of human emotion and fragility of self in such a troubling world. As well as guitar melodies that seem to have such unspoken power to them and suggest a distrustfulness of the world around.

I had no idea what the line-up would be when they walked on as Antimatter have hardly had a consistent touring line-up since they began, although this speaks volumes to their brilliant song-writing capability. I was sincerely looking forward to the track Leaving Eden, the title track of their fourth album and first without Patterson, as there is such a divine guitar tone in both the rhythm and lead guitars and the solo that gradually fades away at the end is virtually beyond words. The audience around me appeared more spell bound than anything else, the sweet acoustic riffs captured me as well, and I was drawn in to Moss’s aura of introspection.