French Band SLIFT Announces New Album Fantasia Available Worldwide Friday, June 5th
The exhilarating French heavy psychedelic rock band SLIFT is returning with Fantasia, their new album, available Friday, June 6th, 2026 worldwide from Sub Pop. The longplayer was produced by the band at Daft Studios in Brussels, Belgium, mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Vrtkl Audio in Stockholm, Sweden. Fantasia features the highlights “The Day of Execution,” the title track, and today’s offering, the soaring “A Storm of Wings”
Fantasia is now available for preorder on CD/2xLP/Digitally worldwide from Sub Pop. 2xLP preorders in North America through megamart.subpop.com and in the UK/EU from Mega Mart Europe will receive the limited Loser Edition on Mustard Yellow (North America) and Sparkle Starlight (UK/EU) colored vinyl. The limited Loser Editions will also be available at your local record store while supplies last.
SLIFT’s previously announced European tour schedule for the Spring and Summer of 2026 resumes Thursday, April 16th in Bourges, FR at Printemps du Bourges, and runs through Saturday, August 15th in Carhaix, FR at Motocultor Festival. New headlining dates for North America and Europe for 2026 will be announced soon.
Sat. Apr. 18 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival
Thu. May 07 - Copenhagen, DK - A Colossal Weekend Festival
Tue. May 26 - Bucharest, RO - Control Club
Wed. May 27 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Club Pave
Thu. May 28 - Thessaloniki, GR - Soul
Fri. May 29 - Athens, GR - Arch Club
Sat. May 30 - Larnaca, CY - What The Fuzz Festival
Fri. Jun. 05 - Tampere, FI - Ankea Festival
Thu. Jun. 18 - Vannes, FR - Festival Echopark
Fri. Jun. 19 - Clisson, FR - Hellfest
Sat. Jun. 27 - Lärz, DE - Fusion Festival
Mon. Jun. 29 - Paris, FR - L’Olympia
Fri. Jul. 03 - Hérouville-Saint-Clair, FR - Festival Beauregard
Sat. Aug. 08 - Josefov, FR - Brutal Assault Festival
Sat. Aug. 15 - Carhaix, FR - Motocultor Festival
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; taken together, its eight songs clock in at less than 50 minutes. 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.
They wanted to write and render songs that recognized the turmoil of these days and to sing of a more hopeful vision, of a time when a reckoning arrives. SLIFT didn’t want to lose the message by playing too much. To wit, the longest song on Fantasia is the opening title track, a nine-minute preamble in which Jean Fossat screams of his desires for the world: rising above our pain, burying our dread, and finding, individually and collectively, “a fire for your soul.” The songs that follow aren’t lacking the complexity or intensity that have made SLIFT a rising, radical star in heavy music; it’s simply that they’ve found new ways to weave the complexities of their past inside every piece, like a tapestry that reveals a new layer every time you look. In doing so, they offer an affirming and urgent message: Together, we can still change the times in which we live.
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