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Slift are a French heavy-psych trio out of Toulouse: brothers Jean Fossat (guitar, vocals, synths) and Rémi Fossat (bass) with drummer Canek Flores, builders of crushing, immersive space-rock and the kind of live set that flattens a room. They broke out with 2020's UMMON, then signed to Sub Pop and pushed everything wider on ILION (January 19, 2024), a roughly eighty-minute, eight-track concept record named for the ancient Greek word for Troy.
We have shared a stage with them more than once. Slift played Levitation in 2022 and came back for Levitation 2024, so pressing this edition feels less like a release and more like keeping a conversation going. They are family at this point, and we are stoked to put ILION on our shelf the way it deserves.
Eighty minutes is a big ask, and Slift earn it. ILION moves like one continuous storm: metal weight, psych guitar heroics, and post-rock patience braided together so the long runtimes never feel like padding. The band treats the whole record as a single arc, and across the eight tracks they keep finding new ceilings to punch through. It is their most ambitious swing and their most fully realized one.
Critics largely came around too. Kerrang gave it a generous four for its exhilaratingly expansive, foreboding scope. We will cop to the one honest knock: the album is so restless that a few of its best ideas get abandoned before they fully land, and you wish the band sat in them a beat longer.
Even so, that restlessness is the point, and it is exactly why ILION belongs on wax. A record this immersive and this loud wants the full double-LP treatment, side by side, no skips. That is why we pressed it.
Recommended if you like: Osees, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Hooveriii.
