Melody's Echo Chamber

It’s now been ten years since Melody Prochet burst into our consciousness with the enchanting psychedelic pop of her self-titled debut album, and much has happened since. Her forthcoming and third studio album, Emotional Eternal, is a glorious consolidation of the lessons learned along the way, seen through the eyes of someone who has taken a step back, and who can see clearly as a result. The fact it will be with us at all is a minor miracle. It was no coincidence that the last album was called Bon Voyage, as Prochet had had every intention of saying au revoir and not just à bientôt. Since Bon Voyage came out in 2018, Melody has swapped Paris for the clean air of the French Alps. That sense of equilibrium is detectable in the new record. If Bon Voyage was anarchic in its unruliness, then Emotional Eternal is the more cohesive and orderly of these siblings, though it too is full of sonic surprises. Melody’s Swedish accomplices, who she met by chance at Levitation France in 2015, Reine Fiske and Fredrik Swahn of The Amazing reuniting the ‘Bermuda Triangle’—the nickname they gave themselves due to their ability to get lost in music together. That trio have grown into a production powerhouse, working closely together and refining what was already sublime.