SLIFT - Fantasia (Vinyl) Roger Shepherd jobbing songwriters enthral to the

jobbing songwriters enthral to the new music pioneered by Gary Numan

and Rah Kanan (drums) manage to stay grounded in the immediate in parallel with fantasy themes of the band's namesake

He had created his own laid back style that simply rolled off his piano and his musical arrangements became the backbone of so many early Ska tunes

Her follow-up to 2013's widely celebrated Loud City Song explores love

” a song about the interconnectivity of all beings

SLIFT - Fantasia (Vinyl) Roger Shepherd jobbing songwriters enthral to theIn the technical sense, every previous album by the radiant and heavy French trio SLIFT has been a fantasiaa 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, 2024s 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