Friday
May 16, 2025
SLIFT’s ILION is a towering work of rock music, as team rolling 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 andoceanic, merging the furious intensity of metal and the wigged-out guitar heroics of psychrock 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 tea cup. It reaches outwards for miles and creates new zeniths within unforeseen horizons of rock. SLIFT is made up of brothers JeanandRemí Fossat and Canek Flores,who first met the brothers Fossat at (of all things) school.