Melody's Echo Chamber
- Melody's Echo Chamber
- Band Name: Melody's Echo Chamber
- Record Label: Fat Possum
- Release Date: Sep 25, 2012
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Nov 26, 201290Whatever happens next, she can rest assured safe in the knowledge that together with her beau they've conjured up one of 2012's--or any other year in recent memory--finest debuts.
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Nov 5, 201290Melody's Echo Chamber is a glorious album. Its success lies in the balance between Prochet's ability to break out of the (supposed) shackles of her structured classical composition education, while still delivering a suite of songs that are coherent, eminently listenable and blend lightness with dark foreboding.
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Dec 17, 201280[A] luscious layercake of flange and Echoplex. [Jan 2013, p.90]
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Nov 21, 201280An intoxicating listen that's well worth experiencing for yourself. [Dec 2012, p.109]
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Nov 5, 201280What it all adds up to isn't big-push psych loonycakes like The Flaming Lips, but something more subtly disorienting.
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Nov 2, 201280Melody's magic combination of dreamy sonics and saccharine vocals is an inexorable pleasure.
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Oct 29, 201280A shimmering, lovely thing, this debut is also full of adventurous spirit.
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Oct 10, 201280You can come for the psychedelic pyrotechnics, and you can stay for the hooks: this debut is endlessly replayable.
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Sep 25, 201280The combination of Parker's inspired production, Prochet's lovely singing and evocative songwriting, and the perfect balance the duo strikes between pop and art makes Melody's Echo Chamber a rather stunning debut.
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Oct 1, 201278Breathy vocals, immensely hooky songwriting and a brilliantly defined technicolor aesthetic established from the very beginning. Such description could have been thrown at Stereolab in the early '90s and at Broadcast in the early 2000s.
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Sep 25, 201274For a collaboration between a songwriter and a producer who helped push her to the outer limits of her vision, Melody's Echo Chamber is an impressively immersive debut.
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Dec 5, 201270Each song can stand strongly on its own or the entire record can work as a cohesive whole (most records are one or the other).
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Nov 30, 201270Overall, this LP won't appeal to everyone, and it's unlikely that anyone will like everything about it. Still, the music industry could use a lot more innovation, and Prochet definitely offers that.
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Nov 5, 201270Sophisticated yet uncomplicated, misty yet vibrant, luxurious yet disquieting, 'Melody's Echo Chamber' is a lovely record full of dualities.
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Sep 26, 201270Although it could have ended on a stronger note, it's a fitting conclusion to the pleasant trip through Melody's spacey dreamworld.
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Sep 25, 201270As Ms. Prochet's lyrics melt into the hiss and buzz, her lilting tunes come through. Amid the derangement, it's still French pop.
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Sep 25, 201270While some albums evoke a dream-like state, Melody's Echo Chamber ensnares the listener into its elegant wilderness, not wanting to let go.
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Sep 25, 201270Stereolab, Cocteau Twins, and Broadcast are key reference points here, though Prochet ensures that the only voice you'll recognize in the Chamber is hers.
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Nov 5, 201260Crystallised, in particular, kicks into a deeply satisfying psych-rock crunch halfway through - a reverb-heavy, robust foil for Prochet's feathery voice. But for much of the unfocused second half of the album, their sounds stray into Stereolab-lite.