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L'Eclair is led by Geneva-based brothers Stef and Yavor Lilov. Their upcoming EP Echo (November 6, 2026) finds the band once again pushing their endlessly elastic approach to rhythm, texture, and groove. For over a year their new EP single “Excelsior” has been a party anthem at their live shows. The recorded version finally arrives, marking the beginning of a new sonic chapter for the band and introducing its latest additions to the studio lineup: James Iwa on bass, Panji Bharata on synth, and percussion king Eduardo Silva Fuentes.
Musically, “Excelsior” directly reflects L'Eclair’s refusal to stand still—a mega-chopped synth lead sounds like an entire choir laughing at the state of the world, while a violent, high-tempo groove keeps everything in perpetual motion. All the while, Fuentes's furious percussive loops drive the track forward. It’s a testament to the band’s ethos: constantly evolving, experimenting, and finding new ways to make the music hit harder and groove deeper.
L'Eclair explain, “‘Excelsior” was one of the first tracks we wrote after the release of Cloud Drifter. Post album release, we were motivated to push toward a new sound—something sharper and more direct, finally bringing the raw, wild energy of our live shows together with our modern approach to production. That’s how ‘Excelsior’ was born. It’s the fastest L’Eclair song to date and pays homage to a main influence of ours: dub music. We took the classic stepper rhythm and made it our own, layering in 303s, fuzzed-out guitars, and a cinematic bridge that keeps building and shifting until the very end. For us, the track feels like a manifesto: L’Eclair is back, with a new sound built to hit harder, travel further, and fill bigger rooms.”
Growing up in Bulgaria in the late 1990s, the Lilov brothers 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 hFas 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.
Echo is self produced by the brothers and as ever, L’Eclair occupy their own peculiar corner of the dance floor, where hypnotic repetition gives way to unexpected detours, locked-in rhythms collide with warped electronics, and vintage textures meet a distinctly modern sense of space. The result is another playful, exploratory chapter from a band that has spent the better part of a decade proving that groove can be both a destination and a way of getting wonderfully lost.
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