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Gelli Haha gives us “Funny Music” - the second single from her debut album Switcheroo due out this summer. “Funny Music” is deliberately contradictory: silly and serious, sincere yet performative. Pulsing arpeggiations and dynamic vocal delivery take the lead on this experimental pop track.
A shapeshifter, a sonic acrobat, a performer with one foot in the cosmos and the other in arthouse theatrics, Gelli Haha (pronounced Jelly-Haha) is a space for pure creative chaos that exists somewhere between Studio 54 and Area 51. Gelli’s music thrives on duality: playful but profound, tongue-in-cheek but sincere. Switcheroo is the soundtrack to the Gelliverse, a sensory adventure sphere created by Gelli.
With a shared taste for off-kilter pop and vintage gear, producer Sean Guerin (of De Lux) joined Gelli in turning freshly-formed demos into a high-voltage experiment, abandoning meticulous structure for something freer and more electrifying. Every song on Switcheroo makes use of a myriad of recording toys; wacky analog effects, such as the Eventide Harmonizer, MXR Pitch Transposer, and various Electrix units, fashion an intentionally flawed and strictly silly texture throughout the album.
Switcheroo is an exercise in letting go, an inside joke turned theatrical spectacle. Participation is encouraged. Surrender is required.
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L’Eclair, the electrifying and genre-hopping Swiss ensemble formed and led by Bulgarian brothers Stef and Yavor Lilov, has announced their new album, CLOUD DRIFTER, out June 20. Meticulously crafted over the last four years, CLOUD DRIFTERr 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.
Alongside the announcement, L’Eclair has shared “ODESSOS,” a driving and atmospheric club-ready album highlight that features vocals from Phoebe Coco and A Ghost Column. The song transmits the infectious energy of the band’s live shows, and is a perfect introduction to the dynamic, high energy collaborative spirit at the heart of CLOUD DRIFTER. 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.