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Plus The Go! Team, Badlands, Alice Boman, The War on Drugs, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Sep 30, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week Florida was devastated by Hurricane Ian and here at Under the Radar headquarters we are currently getting rain connected to storm, with heavy rainfall expected this weekend. One of our writers is in Tampa, Florida, but luckily the power stayed on yesterday while he was doing an interview for our next print issue. Speaking of which, we are very much focused on the next two print issues right now, so we were a bit indecisive about this week’s Songs of the Week. So we settled on a Top 12 and there are lots of honorable mentions this week. More
Unfold and Melody’s Echo Chamber Reissue Both Due Out This Friday via Fat Possum
Sep 27, 2022
By Mark Redfern
This Friday, Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, is releasing a lost album, Unfold, as well as a reissue of her self-titled debut, both via Fat Possum. Now she has shared “Norfolk Hotel,” another song from Unfold. More
Unfold and Melody’s Echo Chamber Reissue Both Due Out September 30 via Fat Possum
Aug 23, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, has announced the release of a lost album, Unfold, as well as a reissue of her self-titled debut, and has shared a video for the album’s title track, “Unfold.” Unfold was originally intended to be Melody’s Echo Chamber’s sophomore album, but was never released. More
Emotional Eternal Out Now via Domino
Apr 29, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, has released a new album, Emotional Eternal, today via Domino. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Wednesday we posted our new interview with Prochet about the album. More
Plus Melody’s Echo Chamber, Florist, Horsegirl, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 08, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a fantastic new release day, with fresh albums by Wet Leg, Father John Misty, Jack White, Oceanator, Daniel Rossen, Orville Peck, Lucius, and others. Some of those artists end up on this week’s Songs of the Week, which is a Top 12 this week. More
Emotional Eternal Due Out April 29 via Domino
Apr 06, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, is releasing a new album, Emotional Eternal, on April 29 via Domino. Now she has shared its third single, “Alma,” via an animated video for it featuring stunning shots of nature and landscapes. More
Emotional Eternal Due Out April 29 via Domino
Mar 09, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, is releasing a new album, Emotional Eternal, on April 29 via Domino. Now she has shared its second single, “Personal Message,” via a video for it. More
Plus Jenny Hval, A Place to Bury Strangers, Darkside, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 21, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2022. This week there were some exciting new album announcements (Hatchie, Daniel Rossen, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Jenny Hval) and Beach House put out another five songs from their new album. More
Emotional Eternal Due Out April 29 via Domino
Jan 20, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, has announced the release of a new album, Emotional Eternal, which will be out on April 29 via Domino. Prochet has also shared a video for the album’s lead single, “Looking Backward.” More
Hope Downs Out Now via Sub Pop
Jun 15, 2018
By Adam Turner-Heffer
After last year’s excellent EP The French Press, young Melbournians Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have amassed quite the deal of hype. And justifiably so, the title track in particular went down as of the best tracks of 2017, excelling a considerable amount of excitement towards their first full length, when it comes. More
Bon Voyage Due Out Tomorrow via Fat Possum; Features Members of Dungen, The Amazing, and Pond
Jun 14, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, is releasing her long-awaited second album, Bon Voyage, tomorrow via Fat Possum. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Breathe In, Breathe Out”(which was one of our Songs of the Week), as well as another song from the album, “Desert Horse” (which was also one of our Songs of the Week). More
Plus Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ryley Walker, Arctic Monkeys, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks' Other Notable New Tracks
May 18, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
We skipped Songs of the Week last week for various reasons, but now we’re back with two week’s worth of songs. For that reason, this week it’s a Top 15, instead of our usual Top 10. More
Bon Voyage Due Out June 15 via Fat Possum; Features Members of Dungen, The Amazing, and Pond
May 15, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, is releasing her long-awaited second album, Bon Voyage, on June 15 via Fat Possum. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Desert Horse.” More
Plus Daniel Rossen, Eleanor Friedberger, Ryley Walker, Jess Williamson, Melody's Echo Chamber, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 06, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Songs of the Week is fairly easy to put together, there are obviously standout tracks and it’s just a case of working out the order. Other weeks there are few great tracks and it’s a real struggle. This week there was an obvious #1 in Beach House and then there were so, so many other tracks to decide between to come up with a Top 10. More
Bon Voyage Due Out June 15 via Fat Possum; Features Members of Dungen, The Amazing, and Pond
Apr 03, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Melody’s Echo Chamber, the project of French musician Melody Prochet, has officially announced her long-awaited second album, Bon Voyage, and shared a video for its first single, “Breathe In, Breathe Out.” More
Feb 27, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Last year Parisan musical artist Melody Prouchet released her breakthrough debut as Melody’s Echo Chamber. More
B-side to Upcoming "Crystalized" Single
Feb 01, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Melody’s Echo Chamber, a.k.a. Melody Prochet, will soon release her track “Crystalized” as the latest single off her eponymous debut from last year. More
Aug 29, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Paris-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Melody Prochet, otherwise known as Melody’s Echo Chamber, will soon release her much-buzzed about self-titled debut next month. More
Interviews
Apr 27, 2022
By Hayden Merrick
Melody Prochet is an architect of euphonic sanctuaries. Listening to her music, produced under the moniker Melody’s Echo Chamber with co-conspirators Fredrik Swahn and Reine Fiske, is to enter an enveloping, otherwise inaccessible sonic reverie—an escape from the real world, a place in which to idle and fade away for a few minutes. That may sound highfalutin or imprecise, but one of Prochet’s primary inspirations is the natural world—a peninsula in the south of France near her grandmother’s house, a forest of pine trees in the Alps. In that way, she invites parallels to songwriters such as Cassandra Jenkins, whose 2021 album was titled, very literally, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature. More
Location, Location, Location
Sep 07, 2012
By Laura Studarus
It’s appropriate that French musician Melody Prochet named her solo project after a dream. The songs on her self-titled debut seem imbued with a logic of their own, spinning psych pop, electronics, and just a whiff of chanson française into a billowy cloud of sound. Although, Prochet admits that the dream that inspired Melody’s Echo Chamber owes more to her nerdy side. More
Reviews
Jun 18, 2018
By Ben Jardine
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. Here, the Echo Chamber takes on a homegrown sound: with audio samples and spoken word, more nods to French ‘60s and experimental rock, and less homage paid to her Tame Impala ex-partner/producer, Kevin Parker. More
Sep 24, 2012
By Hays Davis
The debut album from Melody’s Echo Chamber has sunny, melodic rock and pop at its core, with a dizzying array of orbiting elements that serve equally to enhance the basic theme and to throw your equilibrium into wicked disarray. More