{"id":6032,"date":"2013-01-01T22:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2013-01-01T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:16:23","slug":"melodys-echo-chamber-melodys-echo-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/01\/01\/melodys-echo-chamber-melodys-echo-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber &#8211; Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/01\/01\/melodys-echo-chamber-melodys-echo-chamber\/homepage_large-0cd76a18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6033\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6033\" alt=\"melody's echo chamber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/homepage_large.0cd76a18-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Melody Prochet\u2019s feathery voice sounds like it was time-warped out of a jam session with Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin into 2012.<!--more--> But after a track or two, it\u2019s apparent that while the carefree, childlike quality of 60s French pop is a huge influence of Melody\u2019s sound, her collaboration on this CD with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes\" target=\"_blank\">Tame Impala<\/a>\u2019s frontman Kevin Parker brings along subtle complexity and a darker kind of dreamlike feel. Listening to this CD is like being caught in a storm in a boat and choosing to float away, instead of trying to paddle back. It really feels like each song has its own layers of lithos- (warm bass and marching percussion), bio- (guitar riffs, odd spoken samples), and stratospheres (vocals and echoes), which isn\u2019t to say the album is incohesive. French and English will float into one another on multiple tracks, as do melodies, the repetitiveness of which reminds me of the heaviness you feel in the moments before you sleep, or the scenes blurring past the passenger seat window of a car on the highway. Relaxing is the word. (Fat Possum, <a href=\"http:\/\/fatpossum.com\" target=\"_blank\">fatpossum.com<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melody Prochet\u2019s feathery voice sounds like it was time-warped out of a jam session with Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin into 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[317,336,374,747,935],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-english","tag-fat-possum","tag-french","tag-pop","tag-tame-impala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}