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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release from French trio Slift was recorded in Belgium and mixed by Kurt Ballou.
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  1. Jun 11, 2026
    80
    Fantasia, in the end, is not an escape from the world but a way of looking at it long enough to keep believing it might be saved. They are betting that the people who hear it will agree. On a fifth or sixth listen, that bet looks well placed.
  2. Jun 5, 2026
    80
    The band’s devotion to the riff allows the music to mutate into new forms: The album’s eight songs feels spontaneous and free-form, never cycling back to repeat verses or choruses.
  3. Uncut
    Jun 5, 2026
    80
    That songs as complex and restless as "Orbis Tertius" and "The Day Of Execution" were largely recorded in single takes elicits and additional measure of awe. [Jul 2026, p.38]
  4. Jun 5, 2026
    70
    Fantasia might not register as a simplified reading of Slift's progressive heaviness, but at times it offers the clearest view yet of their intense vision and precision technical abilities.
  5. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jun 5, 2026
    70
    Primal exorcisms destined to be even better live. [Jul 2026, p.77]