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Melody's Echo Chamber is Melody Prochet's psych-and-dream-pop project out of Aix-en-Provence, born after her old band My Bee's Garden opened for Tame Impala and Kevin Parker ended up producing her debut. Unclouded, her fourth LP and first since 2022's Emotional Eternal, trades some of the rolling fuzz for lush orchestration and gossamer melodies that drift toward Broadcast and Stereolab.
We go back with Melody: she played Levitation in 2016, and she returns to our Austin Psych Fest stage in 2026 after a 2023 set. Pressing this one as a Levitation Edition felt like the only move.
Unclouded is Prochet at her most composed. The fuzz pulls back and the arrangements bloom outward: strings, woozy keys, and that gossamer vocal floating just above the mix. It is less about the hook and more about the haze, the kind of record that reveals another layer every time the needle drops.
The critics mostly came around. Pitchfork clocked it a confident deepening at 6.8. Northern Transmissions called it immaculate, a grower at 8.1. Our honest knock: a few tracks lean so far into the dream that the songs themselves can dissolve, and you wish one or two reached out and grabbed you.
But that drift is the point, and on wax it earns its space. The orchestration breathes, the splatter suits the mood, and a record this immersive belongs on a turntable, not a stream. That is why we pressed it.
Recommended if you like: Tame Impala, Stereolab, Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
