SLIFT’s “The Day of Execution” Is About Forgetting Who You Are — Animated and Pummeling

SLIFT’s Fantasia is built around a fictional city so ancient it has forgotten itself — and “The Day of Execution” is that city’s reckoning. A moth knight descends endless steps in the new animated lyric video, directed by Ben Amos Cooper, while the song itself does what SLIFT do best: builds relentlessly, hits hard, and doesn’t let go. It’s about time passing, memory dissolving, the slow alienation of a place that can no longer recognize its own past.

The album arrives June 5 on Sub Pop — produced by the band at Daft Studios in Brussels, mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity in Salem, MA, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg in Stockholm. Eight songs, under 50 minutes, the tightest and most urgent record Jean Fossat, Rémi Fossat, and Canek Flores have made. Pre-order the Loser Edition on Mustard Yellow (North America) or Sparkle Starlight (UK/EU) vinyl while you still can.

SLIFT also announced a massive run of new headline dates across North America this fall and the UK/EU through winter, plus early 2027 dates in Portugal and Spain. Full routing below. Pre-order the album first.

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