L'Eclair x RUN

L’Eclair, the electrifying and genre-hopping Swiss ensemble formed and led by Bulgarian brothers Stef and Yavor Lilov, have shared new grooving, cheeky single “RUN.” The song features singer Gelli Haha, whom The Guardian praised as “delightfully weird” last week and FLOOD proclaimed “experimental pop’s newest trickster.” Together, “RUN” strikes the perfect balance between Gelli’s mysterious sonic universe and L’Eclair’s heavy, raw funk. The demo for the song was rooted in Afro-electronic/Nyege Nyege Tapes territory before morphing into the upbeat, confident and crunchy final result.

The song is off L’Eclair’s forthcoming album Cloud Drifter, out June 20.

Meticulously crafted over the last four years, Cloud Drifter marks a departure from L’Eclair’s signature instrumental music, featuring vocals from a wide slate of frequent collaborators – including Pink Siifu, girl named GOLDEN, Gelli Haha, INES and more. Having toured with the likes of The Cinematic Orchestra and WITCH–including writing and recording for the latter’s 2023 and forthcoming 2025 albums–and produced for wide-ranging artists including Varnish La Piscine and Allah-Las member Maston, the Lilov brothers have assembled a vast network of likeminded musicians. Across Cloud Drifter, they keenly curate a cohesive vision incorporating many disparate contributions.

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.