Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (2018) [Hi-Res]

Melody's Echo Chamber's second album finally arrives more than five years after Melody Prochet's debut, and it's certainly been worth the wait. Bon Voyage is a mind-blowing mini-opus full to the gunwales with surprises. It's a capricious trip that builds majestically upon what Pitchfork in 2012 called "enchanting, psychedelic-tinged pop with just the right amount of thematic darkness". Made up of seven expansive new tracks, it marries Melody's breathless soprano to the wildest sonic excursions, always pinned to an emphatic, clattering groove.