While some Americans decided to throw out all things related to France including such things as French toast and French fries over the disagreements between France and the United States regarding Iraq, the New York-based "pop-noir" group Melomane — led by Paris-born singer-songwriter Pierre de Gaillande — was working on their second album, Solresol, to be released August 19th on Vermillion Music. Strangely, when you look up "Solresol" on dictionary.com it is solely defined as being "an artificial language" with no mention of Frenchman Jean Fancois Sudre, the creator of the universal language based on music by that name. It is this language that is the subject of the title track and reflected throughout the album with songs that use the subject as metaphor such as "Complicated Melody", "The Fighting Guitars", and "A Capella".

Melomane, a sextet consisting of Daria Klotz (bass, vocals), Frank Heer (cello, synth), Quentin Jennings (keyboard), Kenny Savelson (drums), and Jesse Neuman (trumpet) backing de Gaillande, uses its collection of instruments and musicians to create a varied assortment of music, each song expertly orchestrated and layered to emit the fullest sound possible. Throughout the album a playful, filmic atmosphere is present adding a certain amount of visual depth not present on most albums. Basically, when it comes to Solresol, my feelings could be summed up by the following line from the album, "if I had to pick a word to talk about it, it’s far out."