Absurd Minds – Tempus Fugit

Album facts

Release: January 22nd, 2017
Label: Dark Dimensions Label Group
Genre: Absurd Minds, EBM, Synth Pop
Discogs: Link

An album for the growing age

After more than 20 years of band his­tory the new album title 'Tempus Fugit' is very accur­ate. Because the mer­ci­less time is the main theme of the album. The songs on 'Tempus Fugit' are real ser­i­ous and pro­found and leaves you thought­ful and humble. At least I felt that way after listen­ing to this hon­or­able work. Mostly all tracks are played in the mid-tempo range, and sounds con­tinu­ously aggrieving.

A fact by the way

Everytime when I listen to an 'Absurd Minds' song, it sounds to me like an typ­ic­al 'Project Pitchfork' song. I think that is mainly due to the fact that the voices of Stefan Großmann (Absurd Minds) and Peter Spilles (Project Pitchfork) sound sim­il­ar dark, gloomy and sooth­ing.

A time travel with memories of the past

The open­er begins with a moody low-tempo dark tone beat. Electrically dis­tor­ted voices and a touch of ori­ent­al women's singing and instru­ments give 'Time Travel' a unique char­ac­ter. For an album intro­duc­tion this is the per­fect choice. The second track 'Farewell' is def­in­itely more catch­i­er, but nev­er­the­less a radio pop song. The song takes a lot of time in the com­pos­i­tion of the struc­ture, but feels beau­ti­ful at the begin­ning of the chor­us. Fans of the 90s dark disco will love these tunes.

Times ticking by

'Now We Hear The Call' opens itself bit­ter­sweet and full of emo­tions to the listen­er. The mel­an­choly is par­tic­u­larly emphas­ized by the long-drawn viol­ins. The lyr­ic­al line 'Times tick­ing by' travels hyp­not­ic­ally from the left to the right chan­nel in the bridge. This leaves unpleas­ant memor­ies in my emo­tion­al world. However, this song also gives the listen­er a cer­tain hope.

Time to dance

The song 'One World' has a little bit of a typ­ic­al 'Covenant' club hit. Although not quite as fast, but with more feel­ing. But the tempo is clearly increased with the fol­low­ing 'For Those Who Love'. We still move in the mid-tempo area, but this could def­in­itely be a dance floor hit. Here, finally, a clas­sic e‑piano melody is used, which gives the song an excel­lent 90s EBM painting.

Thoughtful tunes

At the end of the second third, 'Threnody' awaits us. Here it is a little more gentle on the album, but this power­ful song comes along with an incred­ibly catchy chor­us. The lyr­ic line 'We know noth­ing at all' will hall in your mind for a long time. Wise words for a truly sad and grace­ful song.

If the 'Pet Shop Boys' made a gloomy Synth Pop song with Darkwave influ­ences, it would sound like 'Design Or Coincidence'. The track has prob­ably the strongest pop factor on 'Tempus Fugit', and comes with an uncom­mon ease on the album. 'Design Or Coincidence' is a Pop song to be taken ser­i­ously. We really love this kind of genre combination.

Having a black celebration

The album is a black cel­eb­ra­tion of times that passed by. A trace of lost memor­ies and farewells that hurt. 7 long years we had to wait for a new 'Absurd Minds' album. The matur­ing pro­cess is almost unbe­liev­able.

We didn't expect a such strong album, but we really enjoyed every minute on 'Tempus Fugit'. If you have the long­ing to travel to some bleak times, then you should ensure to have 'Tempus Fugit' in your bag.

By the way, this album also made it into our art­icle ‘The best Synth Pop and genre-related albums 2017‘. Read now.

Track By Track Rating

Absurd Minds – Tempus Fugit

Time Travel

Farewell

Kreuzfeuer

Now We Hear The Call

One World

For Those Who Love

Last Walk

Threnody

Guardian

Design Or Coincidence

Hourglass

Zeropoint

Recommend

Farewell

One World

For Those Who Love

Weak

(Nothing to report here)

4

Fabulous

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