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Bon Voyage is the second studio album by French psychedelic pop band Melody's Echo Chamber.It was released on 15 June 2018 on Fat Possum Records. Originally slated to be released a year earlier, in the Spring of 2017, the album was pushed back due to Melody Prochet suffering a brain aneurysm and broken vertebrae from an unspecified accident, causing her to be in the hospital for several months.

Bon Voyage is the second studio album by French psychedelic pop band Melody's Echo Chamber. It was released on 15 June 2018 on Fat Possum Records.

Originally slated to be released a year earlier, in the Spring of 2017, the album was pushed back due to Melody Prochet suffering a brain aneurysm and broken vertebrae from an unspecified accident, causing her to be in the hospital for several months.^[4]

Background[edit]

Plans for a second studio album dated back to late 2014, when Melody Prochet released 'Shirim'.^[5]

The album was originally slated to be released in 2017, when 'Cross My Heart' was released in April 2017.^[6] The album was delayed when Melody had suffered a 'serious accident' earlier in June,^[7] adding that her upcoming tour would be cancelled.^[8]

The album was formally announced with a release date on 3 April 2018.^[2] That day, the lead single 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' was released along with an accompanying music video.^[9] With the release of the single, Prochet wrote 'I'm enchanted to share this video for new single 'Breathe In/Breathe Out', a little animated fable that resonates greatly with the record. Thank you Daniel Foothead and Team for this little Pilgrim and it's Muse story. 'All my Love, Melody.'^[10]

In a positive review of the track, Larry Fitzmaurice of Pitchfork described the song as a 'stop-start melodic breaks—before cutting out quickly and entirely in a jarring conclusion'. Fitzmaurice also said the song is 'packed with ideas, its brevity leaving the listener wondering what comes next.'^[11]

Audio service not responding windows 10. On 1 May 2018, 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' was the song of the day on Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota affiliate of the U.S.-based, National Public Radio.^[12]

Reception[edit]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Bon Voyage received an average score of 77, based on 17 reviews, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.^[14] The album also received a 7.4 aggregate on AnyDecentMusic?.^[13]AllMusic writer Tim Sendra stated that 'Bon Voyage shows that Melody's Echo Chamber is far from being just a Kevin Parker creation. Prochet's vision is her own, and it's strong enough here to fly free of any and all constraints.'^[15] In a positive review, Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot praised the album's composition, summarizing that 'if anything, Bon Voyage is even stranger than its predecessor, seven songs splashed in psychedelic colors.'^[17]

In a mixed assessment, Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian felt that the album's 'restless experimentalism' failed to establish 'a strong personality to anchor it'.^[19] Keiron Tyler of Mojo, on the other hand, praised the experimentation and diversity of influences.^[21] Tyler drew comparisons to the work of Tropicália artists such as Os Mutantes and Tom Zé and noted the album's 'singular appeal'.^[21]

Track listing[edit]

All lyrics written by Melody Prochet; all music composed by Melody's Echo Chamber.

Personnel[edit]

All personnel credits adapted from album liner notes

• Melody Prochet - vocals (all tracks), drums (tracks 1-3), keyboards (tracks 2-3, 5), electric guitar (tracks 2, 6), violin (tracks 5-6), all instruments (track 7), production (all tracks except 4), mixing (tracks 2, 6)
• Fredrik Swahn - keyboards (tracks 1, 5), bass guitar (track 2), sound engineering (tracks 1-3, 5-6), production (all tracks except 7), mixing (tracks 2, 4-6)
• Reine Fiske - guitars (1, 3, 5-6), bass guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5-6), keyboards (tracks 1-2), drums (tracks 2-3), percussion (tracks 2-3, 6), violin (track 3, 6), production (tracks 1-3, 5-6), mixing (tracks 2, 5, 6)
• Gustav Ejstes - piano (track 2), beatbox (track 3), scream (track 3), percussion (track 3), vocals (track 4), guitar (track 4), organ (track 6)
• Johan Holmegard - drums (tracks 5-6)
• Nicholas Allbrook - spoken word (track 5)
• Maxime Leguil - mixing (tracks 1, 3)
• Raphael Jonin - mastering (all tracks)
• Silly Jane - artwork
• Paul J. Street & Matthew Cooper - design

Release history[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcd'Bon Voyage - Melody's Echo Chamber - Styles'. Allmusic. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
2. ^ ^abMaicki, Salvatore (3 April 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber announces sophomore album, shares 'Breathe In, Breathe Out''. Fader. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
3. ^'Melody's Echo Chamber - 'Desert Horse''. Stereogum. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
4. ^Claymore, Gabriela (28 June 2017). 'Venue Shares Statement About Melody's Echo Chamber Injury [UPDATED]'. Stereogum. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
5. ^'Melody's Echo Chamber returns with dreamy new single 'Shirim' — listen'. Consequenceofsound.net. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
6. ^'Melody's Echo Chamber Returns With the Sprawling 'Cross My Heart''.
7. ^Yoo, Noah (27 June 2017). 'Melody's Echo Chamber Cancels Tour Due to 'Serious Accident''. Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
8. ^Britton, Luke Morgan (27 June 2017). 'Melody's Echo Chamber cancels tour after suffering 'serious accident''. NME. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
9. ^Breiham, Tom (3 April 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber – 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' Video'. Stereogum. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
10. ^Trendell, Andrew (3 April 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber returns with new album 'Bon Voyage' and single 'Breathe In, Breathe Out''. NME. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
11. ^Fitzmaurice, Larry (3 April 2018). ''Breathe In, Breathe Out' by Melody's Echo Chamber Review'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
12. ^'Melody's Echo Chamber - Breathe In, Breathe Out'. The Current. Minnesota Public Radio. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
13. ^ ^ab'Bon Voyage by Melody's Echo Chamber reviews'. AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
14. ^ ^ab'Bon Voyage by Melody's Echo Chamber'. Metacritic. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
15. ^ ^abSendra, Tim. 'Bon Voyage – Melody's Echo Chamber'. AllMusic. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
16. ^Waite, Kelsey J. (15 June 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber, Bon Voyage'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
17. ^ ^abKot, Greg (15 June 2018). 'Review: Melody's Echo Chamber doubles down on psychedelic pop on 'Bon Voyage''. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
18. ^Bentley, James (15 June 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage'. DIY. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
19. ^ ^abAroesti, Rachel (15 June 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage review – a psych-pop hotchpotch'. The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
20. ^Kaplan, Ilana; Goggins, Joe (13 June 2018). 'Christina Aguilera Liberation review: New album is everything diehard fans could want, but there are misses among the hits'. The Independent. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
21. ^ ^abcTyler, Keiron (July 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage'. Mojo (296): 95.
22. ^Milton, Jamie (20 June 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber – 'Bon Voyage' review'. NME. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
23. ^Cohen, Ian (20 June 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chambe: Bon Voyage'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
24. ^Pinnock, Tom (July 2018). 'Melody's Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage'. Uncut (254): 22.
25. ^'Domino - Albums - Bon Voyage'. Domino Records. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
26. ^'Bon Voyage - Fat Possum Records'. Fat Possum Records. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
27. ^ ^abc'Bon Voyage - Releases'. Allmusic. Retrieved 23 June 2018.

External links[edit]

• Bon Voyage at Discogs (list of releases)

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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Melody’s Echo Chamber’s Bon Voyage is one of those “highly anticipated” albums that are as haunted as they are hyped, with fans’ excitement for the music giving way to concern for its creator. French psych-pop artist Melody Prochet isn’t a celebrity, but the travails she underwent while finishing her second LP were newsworthy: It ends with a song originally released in 2014. “A million hours of work” went into her sessions with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Prochet’s now-ex-boyfriend and the producer on her self-titled 2012 debut. The most distressing setback was a nearly fatal accident that led to a broken vertebra, a brain aneurysm, and an understandably canceled tour. (Prochet has underplayed the incident, allowing only that it “broke a life pattern that didn’t work for me.”) Instead of responding to that turn of events with a cleansing, sober album of plainspoken acoustics, Prochet celebrated her emotional and physical recovery by taking gleeful, blindfolded swings at an overstuffed piñata of psychedelic candy.

The sound capitalizes on the strengths of Prochet’s collaborators: Swedish psych fixtures Fredrik Swahn of the Amazing and Reine Fiske of Dungen, as well as Nicholas Allbrook of Australia’s Pond—three artists whose adventures in blissed-out trippiness are only intermittently concerned with structure—served as the record’s musical and spiritual advisers. Opener “Cross My Heart” begins with a 12-string guitar figure that could’ve appeared on any of the above musicians’ releases, or as a continuation of the stylish pop modes on Melody’s Echo Chamber. But, after 30 seconds, the intro gives way to an album’s worth of instruments and production tricks: grainy string sections, close-mic’d drum rolls, twittering flute, double bass, and a breakdown into beatboxing and synthesized record scratching. It’s the raw materials of an Avalanches track and their finished sample collage at the same time.

Prochet’s private psychedelic reel toggles between English, French, and Swedish lyrics; analog purism and postmodern pranks; soul-cleansing screams and a spoken-word bit from Allbrook about fucking and shitting himself at the moment of his death. Though the sacred texts it cites fall firmly within the syllabus of the lysergic ’60s and ’70s, Bon Voyage feels more spiritually indebted to the pancultural, track-stuffing maximalism of the late ’90s—sound for sound’s sake, the result of indiscriminately rummaging through heavy deep cuts and easy-listening kitsch alike. The difference is that the irony and detachment that defined that era are absent; while Prochet is content to let her vocals serve as one of the album’s infinite luscious textures, her immediately intelligible lyrics are pull quotes that hint at the central tensions behind Bon Voyage. The paralyzing pain of its backstory coexists with the overwhelming joy of its creation.

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But the record is almost entirely beholden to this subtextual reading, and it’s a hard one to uphold for 33 minutes. Prochet’s willingness to lose herself and the listener in a reverie starts to yield diminishing returns. Bon Voyage is overflowing with ideas, and their splattered presentation ultimately brings to mind Robert Frost’s saying about free-verse poetry: It’s like playing tennis without a net. The whistled bubblegum hook of “Breathe in, Breathe Out” is given as much weight as its momentum-killing bridge. Hearing the mammoth drum fills on “Quand Les Larmes D’un Ange Font Danser La Neige” once or twice is a kick that becomes numbing after more than seven minutes. “Desert Horse” contains the most arresting lyrical image—“So much blood on my hands/And not much left to destroy”—but it subjects Prochet’s voice to shrieking octave shifts, Auto-Tune, insectoid buzz, Arabic ululations, and rinky-dink drum machines. It’s both Prochet’s most emotionally invested performance and the one with the most distractions.

That chaos is apparently by design, though: Prochet has described “Desert Horse” as a document of “becoming an adult woman in a mad world.” And as tempting as it is to consider what Bon Voyage could’ve been with more focus and grounding, there is no alternate-universe version to separate the album’s maddening density from its immediate appeal. Despite the scattered song structures, the tracks unite to form a strangely cohesive whole; squishy funk-pop jam “Shirim” sounds like it was recorded in a bouncy castle, and “Desert Horse” seems to spill out from a padded room furnished with Pro Tools, but they’re both chasing the same antic impulses. Bon Voyage celebrates the catharsis of clearing away old wreckage, but it also revels in replacing that mess with new toys.

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