Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

Melody's Echo Chamber

Melody's Echo Chamber

Melody's Echo Chamber

Debut album of dream pop from classically trained French singer Melody Prochet, her musical palette expanded with the help of producer Kevin Parker of Tame Impala

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Fat Possum
UK Release date
05/11/2012
US Release date
25/09/2012
Listen on Spotify
Related Links
Last.fm Myspace Wikipedia
Share
Share |

  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Together with her beau they've conjured up one of 2012's - or any other year in recent memory - finest debuts. Bravo!
    Read Review

  2. 8.0 |   Art Rocker

    Leaves your ears intriguingly immersed in the saturated and inventive sounds
    Read Review

  3. 8.0 |   NME

    What it all adds up to isn’t big-push psych loonycakes like The Flaming Lips, but something more subtly disorienting
    Read Review

  4. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    A glorious album
    Read Review

  5. 8.0 |   The Fly

    Melody’s magic combination of dreamy sonics and saccharine vocals is an inexorable pleasure
    Read Review

  6. 8.0 |   Prefix

    You can come for the psychedelic pyrotechnics, and you can stay for the hooks
    Read Review

  7. 8.0 |   Q

    Fantastic debut from kaleidoscopically talented French songwriter. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   Mojo

    The music comes in many colours, from dream-pop and shoegaze to '60s lysergia and electronic exotica. Print edition only

  9. 7.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    Breathy vocals, immensely hooky songwriting and a brilliantly defined technicolor aesthetic
    Read Review

  10. 7.7 |   Bowlegs

    Melody’s Echo Chamber is a glorious mess of sugar coated trips into the cosmos – and we’re loving every second of it
    Read Review

  11. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    For a collaboration between a songwriter and a producer who helped push her to the outer limits of her vision, Melody's Echo Chamber is an impressively immersive debut
    Read Review

  12. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The album is akin to an Inception-style dream within a dream, where there’s a risk of never waking, instead remaining trapped in limbo
    Read Review

  13. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    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
    Read Review

  14. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    A frequently beautiful record that’s a perfect soundtrack to the drawing-in of nights and the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot. Lovely
    Read Review

  15. 7.0 |   BBC

    A shimmering, lovely thing: a psychedelic gauze through which traces of dream-pop and shoegaze reverberate
    Read Review

  16. 7.0 |   DIY

    Sophisticated yet uncomplicated, misty yet vibrant, luxurious yet disquieting, ‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’ is a lovely record full of dualities
    Read Review

  17. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Overall, this LP won’t appeal to everyone, and it’s unlikely that anyone will like everything about it. Still, the music industry could use a lot more innovation, and Prochet definitely offers that
    Read Review

  18. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Each song can stand strongly on its own or the entire record can work as a cohesive whole (most records are one or the other)
    Read Review

  19. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Tracks such as Crystallised and I Follow You are fine examples of the pair’s flair for creating colourful, bold, occasionally flamboyant statements
    Read Review

  20. 6.0 |   The Observer

    A collaboration from Parisian singer Melody Prochet's and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, is a dream-pop album with some heft
    Read Review

  21. Back to main chart

blog comments powered by Disqus
buy it at amazon download it from itunes

Watch it

Roll over video for more options

Hear it

Preview & download it

Melody's Echo Chamber: Melody's Echo Chamber

  • Download full album for just £8.49
  • 1. I Follow You £0.89
  • 2. Crystallized £0.89
  • 3. You Won't Be Missing That Part of Me £0.89
  • 4. Some Time Alone, Alone £0.89
  • 5. Bisou Magique £0.89
  • 6. Endless Shore £0.89
  • 7. Quand Vas Tu Rentrer ? £0.89
  • 8. Mount Hopeless £0.89
  • 9. IsThatWhatYouSaid £0.89
  • 10. Snowcapped Andes Crash £0.89
  • 11. Be Proud of Your Kids £0.89
  • Service provided by 7Digital

Latest Reviews

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

It’s an album that is as broken as it is beautiful, a balance that Elverum appears to be gleefully embracing. Print edition only Uncut

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

On Night Palace, Phil Elverum continues to muddy the idea of a musical identity, sounding closer to work he's released as The Microphones The Skinny

Mount Eerie  Night Palace

Phil Elverum seems to have made peace with impermanence on his latest, a sprawling 26-track double album Paste Magazine

More reviews

All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.

  1. 9.3

    Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly

  2. 9.2

    Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters

  3. 9.1

    Kendrick Lamar Damn.

  4. 9.1

    D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah

  5. 9.0

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen

  6. 9.0

    Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure

  7. 8.9

    Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways

  8. 8.9

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree

  9. 8.9

    Frank Ocean Channel Orange

  10. 8.9

    Dave We’re All Alone In This Together

See full list