Weird times we're living in. It has almost become the new normal that instead of rocking out in front of an audience bands are just put into the strangest session locations to play.
Here we have a retro-futuristic power-plant-like dome, which - given the energy of the performance - raises the question, whether the station powers the band or more likely the band powers the station.
SLIFT - Levitation Sessions (gold vinyl with heavy black and bone splatter 2LP) (2022)
Of course it doesn't come as a big surprise that this "Levitation Sessions" show of the French trio Slift is a serious banger, given that seven out of its eight tracks are known from their monstrous space rock monolith "Ummon". If you've recorded a killer album like that you're going to play it, kicking things off right with the title track.
So this double LP naturally is a constant burst of raw Hawkwind / The Heads drive, mixed with doomy Slomatics sci-fi metal heaviness and that certain nonagon-infinite King Gizzard up-tempo relentlessness.
Only right in the middle you're given a well-deserved longer breather, while we're spacing out to the synths, floating towards the "Citadel On A Satellite".
The mix of a fuzzton of fuzz with the special delay of the room makes the sound somewhat washed-out and probably unsuitable for ninety percent of all music, but in case of Slift the shoe fits perfectly, as the excessiveness is right on brand.
This live record is just wild and wide. Hop onto the comet and speed through the cosmic debris field!
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