Artist:
L'Eclair
Genre:
Electronic
Total Time:
41:32
Record Label:
Innovative Leisure
Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 20, 2025
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L'Eclair
Genre:
Electronic
Total Time:
41:32
Record Label:
Innovative Leisure
Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 20, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Product Description: Growing up in Bulgaria in the late 1990s, brothers Stef and Yavor Lilov were shaped in a myriad of unseen ways by the centuries-old folk music that filtered through their daily lives. It helped mold their creative spirit and inspired them to begin making noise together at a young age, and that unique and intuitive creative alchemy has been a foundation of guitarist/keyboardist Stef and drummer Yavor’s band L’Eclair since they formed it in their adopted home of Switzerland a decade ago. After spending the past two years meticulously crafting Cloud Drifter, their fourth album and debut for revered U.S. label Innovative Leisure, L’Eclair is for the first time now led by the Lilov siblings. The result is an album seamlessly melding modernity with nostalgia and played with a robotic tightness that remains deeply human.
Indeed, Cloud Drifter will move the body as much as it does the brain. L’Eclair has built an international fanbase thanks to its impressive command of rhythm, dynamics and electro/acoustic alchemy, which has nodded equally to vocal-free titans such as Can and Tortoise, expansive, spacey and blissed-out jams ((2021’s Confusions) and more stripped-down, feel-good and genre-jumping destinations (the 2018 debut Polymood). Two live sessions for KEXP have accumulated nearly 900,000 views combined, beaming L’Eclair onto the playlists of adventurous listeners around the world. And although Cloud Drifter reverberates with heavy, party-starting grooves (“Vertigo”), electrifying future club anthems (“MEMPHIS”) and even trap-inspired beats (“Nova Umbra”), its true revelations come from L’Eclair’s first-ever use of vocals, which are performed in a dizzying variety of styles by such guests as Pink Siifu, Gelli Haha, Phoebe Coco, Girl Named GOLDEN, A Ghost Column and Forest Law. 1
Indeed, Cloud Drifter will move the body as much as it does the brain. L’Eclair has built an international fanbase thanks to its impressive command of rhythm, dynamics and electro/acoustic alchemy, which has nodded equally to vocal-free titans such as Can and Tortoise, expansive, spacey and blissed-out jams ((2021’s Confusions) and more stripped-down, feel-good and genre-jumping destinations (the 2018 debut Polymood). Two live sessions for KEXP have accumulated nearly 900,000 views combined, beaming L’Eclair onto the playlists of adventurous listeners around the world. And although Cloud Drifter reverberates with heavy, party-starting grooves (“Vertigo”), electrifying future club anthems (“MEMPHIS”) and even trap-inspired beats (“Nova Umbra”), its true revelations come from L’Eclair’s first-ever use of vocals, which are performed in a dizzying variety of styles by such guests as Pink Siifu, Gelli Haha, Phoebe Coco, Girl Named GOLDEN, A Ghost Column and Forest Law. 1
TRACK LIST:
MEMPHIS
(03:13)
2 . RUN L'éclair feat. Gelli Haha (02:06)
3 . REPLICA M001 . L'éclair feat. Pink Siifu (03:06)
4 . VERTIGO (04:50)
5 . CLO DRIFTER L'éclair feat. Ines (03:40)
6 . OCEAN MI (03:43)
7 . THE GLITCH L'éclair feat. girl named GO EN (03:26)
8 . ESSOS L'éclair feat. Phoebe Coco & A Ghost Column (04:04)
9 . NOVA UMBRA (02:58)
10 . NOSTALGIA L'éclair feat. Forest Law (04:05)
11 . HUMANOPOLIS M001 . (06:26)
2 . RUN L'éclair feat. Gelli Haha (02:06)
3 . REPLICA M001 . L'éclair feat. Pink Siifu (03:06)
4 . VERTIGO (04:50)
5 . CLO DRIFTER L'éclair feat. Ines (03:40)
6 . OCEAN MI (03:43)
7 . THE GLITCH L'éclair feat. girl named GO EN (03:26)
8 . ESSOS L'éclair feat. Phoebe Coco & A Ghost Column (04:04)
9 . NOVA UMBRA (02:58)
10 . NOSTALGIA L'éclair feat. Forest Law (04:05)
11 . HUMANOPOLIS M001 . (06:26)
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