Melody's Echo Chamber announces fourth album, Unclouded

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The title of the album was lifted from a quote from the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium: "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".

“I used to feel nostalgic growing into adulthood,” Melody Prochet says, “but now that I understand that concept of impermanence, I don’t take it as personally anymore.” That brighter outlook is reflected in the record’s more earthbound lyrics – the instinct to escape has been replaced by a sense of being with nature in the present.

“The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables,” says Melody's Echo Chamber. “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.” (Kintsugi is a Japanese art where broken pottery is put back together with gold or silver lacquer).

Unclouded is brimming with the positive energy that propelled Prochet across the world on Melody Echo Chamber’s lauded “comeback” tour of 2022. On returning to the Alps of High Provence, she began writing in earnest. What inspired her? “My deeper love for the living experience,” she says. “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 also announces a Spring 2026 world tour which includes a date at London’s Electric Ballroom on 21 April, with stops in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris, along the way.

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