WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight
on the Strangeways Radio Blog:
A Weekly Gaze.
About this week's spotlight:
Who: Melody's Echo Chamber
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: every week
A Weekly Gaze.
About this week's spotlight:
Who: Melody's Echo Chamber
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: every week
Every week WTSH will present a shoegaze/dream pop band on Strangeways' blog, highlighting how very awesome the band is and how you should be listening to them and buying their music and supporting them because they deserve it.
Melody
Prochet, French pop aficionado and multi-instrumentalist (formerly of The
Narcoleptic Dancers and My Bee’s Garden), has embraced dream pop with her
Melody’s Echo Chamber project. The classically trained Parisian recruited Tame
Impala front man Kevin Parker to produce her self-titled debut LP, after
becoming intrigued by the Aussie psych-rockers’ scuzzy sonics. She struck up a
conversation with Parker after a Tame Impala show about how he achieved the
band’s signature, blown-out bass sound; later he asked My Bee’s Garden to
support Tame Impala on a European leg of their tour. When Melody decided to go
solo, she asked Parker to produce, and to push her out of her comfort zone a
bit.
Melody’s Echo
Chamber, released in 2012 (in the US by Fat Possum Records & in the UK by
Weird World Records), immediately garnered widespread critical acclaim.
Recorded mostly at Parker’s home studio in Perth, the debut is full of
psych-tinged pop with just the right amount of thematic darkness and grime
around the edges. Prochet has a way with melody and a voice that places her
among the top-tier School of Dream Pop graduates, and Parker’s signature
production helps this record transcend its 1960s pop influences...
