Melody's Echo Chamber: ‘My lyrics have this long echo in my reality’

The French singer’s fantastical album Bon Voyage was delayed after she had a serious accident – one that she seemed to foretell in her own songwritingIt is easy to be cynical when musicians describe their work as a prophecy – as if writing something in a song could make it happen. But sometimes it works out that way. Nick Cave had written most of Skeleton Tree, laced with images of falling bodies and empty echoes, prior to the death of his son. Last spring, Melody Prochet wa...

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