Originally, everything was planned differently than it finally turned out. French psychedelic pop musician Melody Prochet aka Melody’s Echo Chamber wanted to make her third studio album Bon Voyage her last. Quite unexpectedly, her inspiration for new music emerged while spending an evening without her new-born daughter. The resulting track is the closing song Alma_The Voyage from her fourth studio album. Lyrics about happiness with her daughter paired with buzzy strings convey a feeling of lightness and buoyancy until the song transitions into a sentimental instrumental filled with tenacious violin sounds. Even though the track marks the end of the album, it clears the field from behind by underlining the shape-shifting nature of Emotional Eternal. In the constant change of structure, melody and timbre, the album takes up the aesthetic of 70s psychedelic rock and enriches it with a wide array of instruments such as violins and violas, the Swedish cidra and the Turkish saz. This gives the album driving as well as disruptive moments which Melody’s Echo Chamber’s mostly French vocals and soft drums and guitars do not provide. Pyramids in the Clouds, for example, with its shimmering soundscape and rolling guitar and saz riffs, brings to mind the Turkish psychedelic folk performer Selda Bağcan. Elsewhere, the track The Hypnotist shifts from a stumbling rhythm with howling sounds to smooth, gentle drums and a subtle bassline and back again. »Emotional Eternal« fluctuates between pompous instrumentation and gentle lightness without making a concrete choice between the two.
Julia Holter
Something In The Room She Moves
Domino