EIDER STELLAIRE II

Five years after their amazing debut EIDER STELLAIRE are back, well half of the six piece band are back anyway. The guitarist, drummer and bassist return but gone are the female vocals, the organ and the sax. They add one of the former female members as a guest who played flute and sang on the debut but she's only on that 37 second closer here playing flute, not enough to time to add her vocals(haha). Another guest adds percussion on one track while another adds harp-synths. What! Yes and it sounds as bad as you might imagine with those high pitched pings. A short record at 28 minutes but that's not a bad thing. By the way the followup to this released the following year is in my opinion much better than this one. I want to say this is Zeuhl-lite but really the Zeuhl flavour is weak with some of that coming from the male vocals or the bass but usually not from either. This sounds nothing like the debut and while some actually prefer this style I'm certainly not one of them. A lot of repetitive stuff too as they almost jam at times. There is some piano provided by the drummer by the way. A low 3 stars.