Led by brothers Stefan and Yavor Lilov, Swiss funkateers L’Eclair have all the time seemed like consummate professional session musos who’ve developed fruitful telepathy within the studio throughout three prior albums (they’ve tailored that prowess to backing W.I.T.C.H. on the Zambian psych-rockers’ current excursions).
And whereas 2018’s Cruise Management EP and the full-length Polymood flaunt each the debonair funkiness of ’70s library music and the magnificence of that very same decade’s finest easy fusion, Cloud Drifter doubles down on a number of dulcet-toned vocalists to enhance L’Eclair’s sonic charms. There’s even rapping from the enigmatic Pink Siifu on “Reproduction M001,” which is an excellent plot twist within the group’s catalog.
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Proper from the shiny, bubbly opener “Memphis,” L’Eclair sound as in the event that they’ve tailor-made Cloud Drifter for continental seaside listening. The wonky synth motif that zigzags throughout the mid-tempo bustle provides essential distinction. The title monitor purveys Balearic bliss-out in trip-hop drag and buoyed by Ines’ dreamy vocals, whereas the atmosphere of the Phoebe Coco-assisted “Ocean Thoughts” aptly brings to thoughts sea spray. “Humanopolis M001” begins as an ethereal fantasia with wispy feminine chants mixing into a dangerous choir earlier than evolving into an Air-like seducer.
Regardless of its title, “The Glitch” traffics in sparkly, slow-motion disco with languorous coos by Lady Named GOLDEN. “Odessos” reigns because the LP’s dance-floor banger, rippling with sci-fi-film-synth arpeggios and glazed with mysterious-lady house whispers. On “Run,” Gelli Haha’s deadpan vocals counterbalance flamboyant, chase-scene disco-funk that includes a bassline that twangs like that in Medium Medium’s “Hungry So Offended.” Cloud Drifter sounds prefer it value 1,000,000 euros to provide. Might it herald that a lot moolah to those sonic sophisticates.
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