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Bon Voyage

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Bon Voyage

Second studio album from French indie dream pop singer-songwriter Melody Prochet

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Domino
UK Release date
15/06/2018
US Release date
15/06/2018
  1. 10.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Intensive, sensitive, and ultimately, true to life: it’s a difficult, complicated album, but totally worth it
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  2. 10.0 |   God Is In The TV

    It’s challenging, at times surreal, and most importantly, it’s absolutely perfect
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  3. 9.0 |   Uncut

    Begs to be put on again, each listen revealing more of the myriad ideas that make up its weird majesty. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    The album has its own voice. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Music

    An adventurous wonder
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  6. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Prochet has never couched sadness or despair in maudlin melodies or minor chords, and when she does let the sun shine through the gloom the results are intoxicating
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  7. 8.0 |   DIY

    A modern psychedelic creation that reveals more and more on each listen
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  8. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    The whole experience is charmingly woah-dude in a way that never feels caricatured or insincere. Great pleasure is taken in employing the familiar apparatus and codes of psychedelia and, well, making them psychedelic again
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  9. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    Bon Voyage really highlights the musical vocabulary of Prochet, and as such, the record achieves a great deal in very little time
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  10. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A foray into the world of spiritual healing and rediscovery through a various musical textures and emotions
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  11. 8.0 |   Clash

    An album that demands repeat listens, but this is fine, as with each listen we learn a little more of its secrets, but once they have been cracked ‘Bon Voyage’ becomes something greater than its parts
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  12. 7.7 |   Gig Soup

    Her most adventurous, psychedelic, and experimental release yet
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  13. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    Six years and one nearly fatal accident after her promising debut, French singer-songwriter Melody Prochet celebrates her recovery with an album of gleefully overstuffed psych-pop
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  14. 7.0 |   Earbuddy

    Melody’s Echo Chamber frees itself from the standard, traditional 4-minute-verse-chorus jams, and opens up to new possibilities
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  15. 7.0 |   The 405

    Sounds like a rebirth of sorts for Prochet
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  16. 6.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    Proves how adaptive Melody’s Echo Chamber as a project can be
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  17. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Dull moments are few and far between. Yet an album that flits wantonly back and forth between languages and decades needs a strong personality to anchor it – and that’s one thing Bon Voyage’s restless experimentalism never quite gets round to establishing
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  18. 6.0 |   Q

    An enjoyably bonkers journey. Print edition only

  19. 6.0 |   NME

    On this long-awaited return, psych-rock explorer Melody Prochet hop-scotches between moods and ideas like she’s on a time-limit
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  20. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    Wildly inconsistent
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