Melody’s Echo Chamber the project of French musician Melody Prochet, shares the newest single “Norfolk Hotel” off her upcoming LP, Unfold the lost follow-up album to her self-titled debut Melody’s Echo Chamber, which includes seven rare and unreleased tracks. The album will be released alongside the 10th-anniversary edition of Melody’s Echo Chamber, both albums to be released on September 30th via Fat Possum Records. It’s a hypnotic and sometimes hypnagogic adventure of the senses, full of summary, shimmery songs that still sound as dreamy and vivid as they did a decade ago.

On “Norfolk Hotel” Melody shares, “I think this song soundtracks the metamorphosis experience, those spellbound waves and rhythm shifts, I remember I wanted the music to transcend into those psych jazz waltzy choruses, with rains of bass and spidery drum rolls. I guess the finale’s crumble kind of predicted the future ruin field. the music naturally recorded as a live duo, as I was just blossoming into my own intuitive guitar playing. A very joyful and endlessly inspiring playground of musical memories.”

Unfold is finally being released in L.P. form, a splurge of righteous creation cut off at an inopportune moment and preserved like the ruins of Pompeii. Indeed, the groove-laden ‘Ocean Road’ is truncated at the 2.40 mark, leaving the listener in a brief state of bewilderment, followed by a moment of grief for what could have been. Thankfully, the mesmeric ‘Norfolk Hotel’, a song cast in the classic mold of LP1 with a magnificent waltzy chorus augmented by spidery drum rolls, comes quickly to rescue us.

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