ILION SLIFT SKU: 26.00 28.00 £26.00 - £28.00 £26.00 - £28.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Sub Pop Released Date: 19th January 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Buying Options Choose an option2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve2LP Gatefold SleeveClear ILION quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info SLIFT’s ‘ILION’ is a towering work of rock music, a steamrolling record that starts at the highest peak and never lets up. If that sounds overwhelming, trust that this Toulouse trio have you in good hands. Their third full-length feels massive and oceanic, merging the furious intensity of metal and the wigged-out guitar heroics of psych rock with post-rock’s epic sense of scale. ‘ILION’ is the kind of music where you listen to it and think to yourself, “This came from only three people?” It sure did, and SLIFT’s utter ferocity is way more than a tempest in a teacup. It reaches outwards for miles and creates new zeniths within unforeseen horizons of rock. SLIFT is made up of brothers Jean and Remí Fossat and Canek Flores, who first met the brothers Fossat at school. After the band formed in 2016, they quickly made their 2017 debut EP, ‘Space Is the Key’, which merged stoner rock’s heaviness with the sugar-rush qualities of garage rock. From there, things only got weirder: The trio experimented with faster tempos and bongos on the following year’s full-length, ‘La Planeté Inexploreé’ and, in 2019, their KEXP session recorded at the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes became a viral sensation, racking up more than 1.4 million YouTube views. ‘UMMON’ from 2020 represented SLIFT’s pivot towards the celestially crushing confines of psych-metal, marked by Remí’s rolling basslines and Flores’s relentless skin-pounding. But nothing in their catalogue could prepare you for ‘ILION’, a huge and melodically dense record that at once recalls Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s perpetually uplifting surge, the passionate burn of post-hardcore legends …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Led Zeppelin’s psychotic blues-rock mysticism, and the psychedelic swirl of Swedish greats Goat. But reducing ‘ILION’ to a list of reference points would be missing the point – specifically, that you have to sit down and experience this thing and let it take over your ear space. Over eight tracks and 75+ minutes, SLIFT unleash the fury with walls of guitar and multi-part song structures that make you feel as if you’re being taken on a true journey – from the pure oblivion of ‘ILION’’s title track and the abandon of centrepiece ‘Weavers’ Weft’ to the intense climax of the epic ‘The Story That Has Never Been Told’. But what is this journey? Joseph Campbell would be proud of the thematic path laid out before the listeners on ‘ILION’, which is named after the Ancient Greek word for the city of Troy and, conceptually speaking, picks up where ‘UMMON’ left off. The band explain: “Where the two records differ is that ‘ILION’ is about human emotions and feelings, whereas ‘UMMON’ was telling an epic story with a distant view. ‘ILION’ represents the fall of humanity and the rebirth of all things in time and space.” Heavy shit, to be sure – but fear not, because you don’t need a 12-sided dice and a copy of ‘The Odyssey’ to get what SLIFT dish out on ‘ILION’. All you need are two ears, an open mind, and the willingness to be truly blown away. Double LP in gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeves. Artist SLIFT Genre Metal / Classic Rock Label Sub Pop Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve , 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ilion Nimh The Words That Have Never Been Heard Confluence Weavers' Weft Uruk The Story That Has Never Been Told Enter The Loop Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Metal / Classic Rock View Product Quick View Scorpions Love Drive Metal / Classic Rock | BMG Rights Management | 1LP, Includes CD Released 13th July 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Scorpions Love Drive £20.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538150155 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 68 Give One Take One Metal / Classic Rock | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th March 2021 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 68 Give One Take One £18.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP755 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tylas Dogs Damour Straight Up 2020 Metal / Classic Rock | King Outlaw | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 30th April 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tylas Dogs Damour Straight Up 2020 £21.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: King Outlaw SKU: KOP121V Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 30th April 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Iron Maiden 2 Minutes To Midnight Metal / Classic Rock | Parlophone | 7", Single Released 27th October 2014 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Iron Maiden 2 Minutes To Midnight £7.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Parlophone SKU: 2564624868 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 27th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard Metal / Classic Rock | Spinefarm Records | 1LP Released 10th November 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard £21.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Spinefarm Records SKU: SPINE754235 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Uriah Heep Very ‘Eavy Very ‘Umble (Limited Picture Disc) Metal / Classic Rock | BMG | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 28th January 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Uriah Heep Very ‘Eavy Very ‘Umble (Limited Picture Disc) £25.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: BMG SKU: 4050538689785 Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 28th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Deep Purple InFinite – Box Set Metal / Classic Rock | Hear Music | Box Set Released 7th April 2017 £50.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Deep Purple InFinite – Box Set £50.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Hear Music SKU: 0211890EMU Formats: Box Set Released Date: 7th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ozzy Osbourne Memoirs of a Madman Metal / Classic Rock | Sony Legacy | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 9th October 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ozzy Osbourne Memoirs of a Madman £20.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Sony Legacy SKU: 88875015611 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 9th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Slayer World Painted Blood Metal / Classic Rock | Columbia | 1LP Released 2nd November 2009 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Slayer World Painted Blood £17.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Columbia SKU: 88697413181 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd November 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Opeth My Arms Your Hearse Metal / Classic Rock | Candlelight | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th May 2023 £34.00 Select options Opeth My Arms Your Hearse £34.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Candlelight Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th May 2023 Read More Select options See more in Metal / Classic Rock Start again
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