Bon Voyage
Made up of seven expansive tracks, Bon Voyage marries Melody’s breathless soprano to the wildest sonic excursions, always pinned to an emphatic, clattering groove as she delivers her fables of spiritual search and emotional healing in multiple tongues (French, English and Swedish). Bon Voyage is a collaborative record between Prochet and Dungen’s Reine Fiske and The Amazing’s Fredrik Swahn with Melody sculpting and producing the sessions as well as encouraging the players around her to experiment, often with instruments that might be less familiar to them. It also features special guests Gustav Esjtes and Johan Holmegaard (both from Dungen) and Nicholas Allbrook (Pond).
Six years and one nearly fatal accident after her promising debut, French singer-songwriter Melody Prochet celebrates her recovery with an album of gleefully overstuffed psych-pop.
Melody’s Echo Chamber pushes its warped psych pop to new lands on Bon Voyage, while Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever debuts with the dreamy, mature Hope Downs, and Chromeo strikes the right balance on fifth LP Head Over Heels. These, plus Immersion and The English Beat in this week’s notable new releases.
The French psych-pop queen's awaited second album finally sees its release, boldly rebuffing the breeziness of its predecessor.
Also this week: Mike Shinoda’s new solo album, Chromeo’s ‘Head Over Heels’, and a debut from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
After releasing an entrancing debut record, the self-titled Melody's Echo Chamber, which was made in collaboration with Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, Melody Prochet ran into roadblocks, both musical and otherwise, that kept her from following up that glittering, searching, sweet-as-punch psychedelic pop gem with another one in due course.
French musician Melody Prochet's second album as Melody's Echo Chamber, Bon Voyage is wildly inconsistent.
With a more plunderphonic aesthetic than was present on her debut, Melody Prochet returns to the psych rock fray with a compact seven-track record, entitled Bon Voyage.
All aboard, as Melody Prochet once again opens the door to her echo chamber. In 2012 Melody’s Echo Chamber released their self-titled debut album,
Despite some huge life obstacles Melody's Echo Chamber has faced the past five years her new album 'Bon Voyage' comes out sounding strong and triumphant.
Melody's Echo Chamber breaks out all her classic sounds while exploring new and unexpected sounds in our review of 'Bon Voyage'
Melody Prochet’s second album is so full of left turns, style changes and different languages it’s hard to keep up, but it’s never dull
Bon Voyage proves how adaptive Melody’s Echo Chamber as a project can be when push comes to shove.
Long-awaited follow-up to 2012 debut is wonderfully weird prog-odyssey. Review by Jo Southerd