Melody's Echo Chamber: Ethereal Dreams Get Sharp Focus

French musician Melody Prochet, known as Melody's Echo Chamber, releases her fourth album, Unclouded. This collection delves into diaphanous psych rock, enhanced by crisp production that sharpens the focus on her ethereal songwriting. The album is characterized by cinematic dream-rock soundscapes, fuzzed-out bass, and coiled percussion wrapped in reverberant guitar.

Unclouded showcases Prochet's mastery of atmospheric sound, with music that unfurls like beautiful, delicate fabric. Tracks like "Memory's Underground" build from a downtempo march to a storm of strings and reverb, while "Daisy" offers bottled sunshine with its plucked guitar and repetitive drum lines. Prochet's signature wispy vocals thread through the arrangements.

While Prochet sings primarily in English on this record, her songs in French often carry a larger-than-life authority. Unclouded, much like cotton candy, melts into itself, creating an ethereal tapestry that, while beautiful, sometimes lacks distinct definition, making it difficult for individual tracks to stand out.