Emotional Eternal

The bright, kaleidoscopic vignettes that defined Melody’s Echo Chamber’s first decade have softened into misty pastel watercolors on the French singer/songwriter Mélody Prochet’s third album, *Emotional Eternal*. Following 2018’s *Bon Voyage*—a dense, disorienting psych-pop set whose release was overshadowed by an accident that left Prochet hospitalized for several months—the artist moved from Paris to the Alps, became a mother, and fused all those experiences into a lighter, more lithe album that seeks peace somewhere between reverie and reality. Slipping between English and French, Prochet is a bewitching pied piper, her breathy incantations guiding a playful procession of sitar (“Pyramids in the Clouds”), horns (“A Slow Dawning of Peace”), and strings (“Personal Message”) through weightless, winding melodies that are held down by a persistent, propulsive bass. It all leads to “Alma\_the Voyage,” a swooning, swirling orchestral ode to the artist’s daughter that balances all the headiness with pure heart as Prochet gushes, “I’m so lucky to have you, and so proud to hold you.”

Having gone through a turbulent period, Melody Prochet returns with a third album that finds her coming blissfully into focus

The vivid psych-pop of Melody’s Echo Chamber's third album reaches for the stars

The second Melody's Echo Chamber album, Bon Voyage, was a tour de force of intense psychedelic pop underpinned by dramatic shifts in tone and tempo, unhinged vocals, and an endless supply of surprises.

Melody’s Echo Chamber has since gone on to amass a modest, but impressive discography that ranges from the kaleidoscopic delight of 2012’s self-titled debut LP, to the tumultuous and opaque but enchanting sound of 2018’s Bon Voyage.

French artist Melody Prochet aka Melody's Echo Chamber is back, and not quite as eternally emotional as one might hope

Emotional Eternal by Melody's Echo Chamber album review by Greg Walker. The multi-artists full-length drops on April 29, 2022 via Domino