SLIFT - Fantasia - loser edition 2x vinyl LP

Breakout French band SLIFT’s second album for Sub Pop, Fantasia, is a loud, lean, and inspiring work filled with punchy anthems, doom/stoner-metal riffs, and surprising dynamics.

For fans of Mastodon, Gojira, Converge, King Crimson, Hawkwind, Sleep.

In the technical sense, every previous album by the radiant and heavy French trio SLIFT has been a fantasia—a composite of genres and forms that allowed the band to improvise, to jam on themes until they seemed to spiral together into space. Their acclaimed third album, 2024’s Ilion, was a sci-fi story built with 10- to 13-minute exploratory escapades, often starting with doom metal or stoner rock before spinning freely into glorious instrumental oblivion. But, in a bit of intentional irony, SLIFT’s fourth album is actually called Fantasia. It’s their leanest and most direct record to date. It is also their most riveting album yet, a pointed saga about overcoming international upheaval delivered by a band bearing down, not wasting a single second in the process.