Melody’s Echo Chamber

★★★ Emotional Eternal DOMINO. CD/DL/LP

Third album from psychedelic French artist soars angelic.

With her 2012 debut, Parisian songwriter Melody Prochet joined forces with her producer Kevin Parker on a hazy quest to jam the clock hands around 1970. Emotional

Eternal, made in Stockholm with Swedish indie-rock stalwarts Reine Fiske and Fredrik Swahn, continues her mission, a high-gloss finish enveloping her intricate songs. Prochet’s crocheted-gossamer voice enchants those who like their cosmic wanderings on the ethereal side, but Emotional

Eternal’s real allure lies in its baroque keyboards, brocaded strings and, on Pyramids In The Clouds, flashes of Turkish psychedelia. It’s Saint Etienne and The Cardigans as much as the original source material, A Slow Dawning Of Peace and Alma The Voyage pitched between record fair and renaissance fayre. The best moments – Where The Water Clears The Illusion’s untethered vocals, for example – come with an edge of unease, pushing Prochet onwards, upwards, and out of her beautifully suspended animation.