Hard-hitting French psychedelic power trio SLIFT is back with news of the band’s third album, ILION. Out January 19th, the LP will mark the band’s first release since recently signing to Sub Pop.
This week’s album announcement arrived alongside the blistering 11-minute title track which opens the album. Brothers Jean and Remí Fossat along with high school chum Canek Flores create a brick wall of instrumentation that’s familiar to any fans lucky enough to have witnessed their intense live shows. After about six minutes of pummeling psych rock and shouting, it sounds like the track is finished, only to break open into an ethereal space that ultimately builds to one final climax.
“Due to its structure in ‘drawers,’ with different movements, it represents the album as a whole,” the band said of the single. “It depicts monuments to ancient gods rising skyward from the dusty desert floor of a dying planet, battered by fierce winds. It’s about the people condemned to live on this desolate land. And about the murderers of this world, who leave it for space and the hope of a new world, in a frantic crusade which will lead them to madness.”
ILION will arrive four years after the band’s sophomore effort UMMON. Something of a sequel to the band’s second album, this new release named after the ancient Greek word for the city of Troy continues a narrative established on its predecessor.
“This is an album constructed in the manner of a Homeric story,” the band said. “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.”
Check out the title track to the new SLIFT album ILION, available here for pre-order. The Toulouse trio teased an upcoming tour announcement with the album reveal, writing that they “can’t wait to see old and new friends in the pit, we’ll see space again together.”
SLIFT – “ILION”
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