Tempist Fujit - Album Review: Time Flies
Up until this month 4-piece Northland band Tempist Fujit had released the No More Time EP and a single titled Midnight Train.
This month the team of Lisa Walters (vocals, guitar), Douglas Gordon (guitar, backing vocals), Harlen Keepa (bass) and Chris Butler (drums) have finally released their first full length album.
Right from the first track, Confused, the band are raring to go, as I listen through the album the irony of the opening track becomes more obvious, as there’s no confusion present at all. This is a band that knows where it’s going.
Tempist Fujit, obvious play on the Latin ‘Tempus Fugit’ or Time Flies, cut their teeth playing covers before writing their own material, and it shows in the band’s commercially appealing rock sound.
Performances on this album are faultless and Lisa Walters’ voice is seriously good. Pretty sure I can hear some training there. She’s got a great range, and although she’s singing in the harder rock genre there’s little audible sound of strain. She has a mean belt when she lets rip and has a huge voice with a warm tone.
Many of the songs have space for the individual instruments to breathe, and Doug Gordon’s guitar breathes very well, he’s a skilled player who can take a lead break as the song demands. This is especially noticeable on Everyone Get On and Bring It On A New Day.
The engine room of drummer Glenn Child, and bass player Andrew Hutton are rock solid, it’s almost like they’re playing with one mind. They lock in to a groove and can just sit on it.
The band show’s is multicultural roots with rapping on Dayne’s song and in Home where the rapping is in Te Reo Maori, and almost akin to a haka in parts.
Time Flies was recorded at Mountfield Studios, produced and engineered by Mel Rogers. Kane Bennett mixed it at Limelight studios, and from there the recordings went to Steve Corrao, of Music Row in Nashville Tennessee.
One of the coolest things I’ve found on my 5th or 6th listen through is that if anything was ‘fixed in post’ it’s really not at all noticeable.
About Tempist Fujit
A 4-piece dynamic rock band from Northland New Zealand.
Having created a sound that captures a wide range of individual genres creatively placed into the bands signature solid rock style with powerful lead vocals and hard-hitting live performances, when thinking of new music and were to start Tempist Fujit is the place to look.
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