Album Info Hide Show Artist: Slift Album: Ilion Released: USA & Europe, 2024 Tracklist: A1 Ilion A2 Nimh B1 The Words That Have Never Been Heard B2 Confluence C1 Weavers Weft C2 Uruk D1 The Story That Has Never Been Told D2 Enter The Loop Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show 2LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeves. SLIFTs 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-rocks 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 SLIFTs 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 Rem Fossat and Canek Flores, who first met the brothers Fossat at (of all things) school. After the band formally came together in 2016, they quickly made their 2017 debut EP, Space Is the Key, which merged stoner rocks 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 years full-length La Planet Inexplore, 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 SLIFTs pivot towards the celestially crushing confines of psych-metal, marked by Rems rolling basslines and Floress relentless skin-pounding. But nothing in their already-estimable catalog could prepare you for ILION, a huge-sounding and melodically dense record that at once recalls Godspeed! You Black Emperors perpetually uplifting surge, the passionate burn of post-hardcore legends And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Led Zeps psychotic blues-rock mysticism, and the psychedelic swirl of Swedish experimental greats Goat. But reducing ILION to a list of reference points would be missing the pointspecifically, that you really have to sit down and experience this thing and let it take over your ear space. The record marks the bands second Sub Pop release, following last years Singles Club 7 release of Unseen b/w The Real Unseen, which were outtakes from the UMMON sessions and offered a mere taste of the pure expansiveness on display here. 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 youre being taken on a true journeyfrom the pure oblivion of ILIONs title track and the stretched-out abandon of centerpiece Weavers Weft to the intense climax of the 12-and-a-half-minute epic The Story That Has Never Been Told. But what is this journey? To hear SLIFT tell it, 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: This is an album constructed in the manner of a Homeric story, the band explains. 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 surebut fear not, because you dont need a 12-sided die and a copy of The Odyssey to get what SLIFT are dishing out on ILION. All you need are two ears, an open mind, and the willingness to be truly blown away. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review