GIRLRLS !

Eiliff's second album finds the short-lived Krautrock unit sputtering and stumbling on that whole difficult "second album" thing. Their debut was extremely strong, but it's clear that they'd expended all their best ideas here; Girlrls! feels more like a jam session than a cohesive album compared to the debut, the band workshopping new ideas but not giving them that much polish. There's too much here which just comes across as empty noodling; album opener Eve of Eternity has some nice organ, though it takes way too long to actually properly get going. Not outright incompetent for those who just want a bit of a psych-tinged jam, but far from essential.