Melody Prochet has announced a new Melody’s Echo Chamber album: Unclouded comes out December 5 via Domino. It features the previously released El Michels Affair collaboration ‘Daisy’, and a cosmically hypnotic new single, ‘In the Stars’, is out today. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
The title of the new album is taken from a quote by the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki: “You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side.”
“The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables,” Prochet said in a statement. “But the more experience I have of living, the deeper I love life and the less I need to escape. If my heart still belongs to the blue hour, it also feels like I’ve gathered up all the pieces of myself that were scattered everywhere and glued them together with gold like Japanese kintsugi.”
Unclouded was co-produced by by Sven Wunder, who also contributed to the writing. It features Josefin Runsteen on strings; Dina Ögon’s Daniel Ögen on guitar and Love Orsan on bass; the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto on drums; and Dungen’s Reine Fiske on guitar. Here’s how Prochet describes the inspiration behind it: “My deeper love for the living experience. I still get ups and downs but I’m faster at getting back to more harmonious feelings, enjoying the beauty of transient things and the bittersweet feeling of their impermanence.”
Melody’s Echo Chamber’s previous LP, Emotional Eternal, arrived in 2022. Read our inspirations interview about the album.
Unclouded Cover Artwork:
Unclouded Tracklist:
1. The House That Doesn’t Exist
2. In The Stars
3. Flowers Turn Into Gold
4. Eyes Closed
5. Childhood Dream
6. Memory’s Underground
7. Broken Roses
8. Burning Man
9. Into Shadows
10. How to Leave Misery Behind
11. Unclouded
12. Daisy [feat. El Michels Affair]
