Bachelorette (singer)
Bachelorette (singer) | |
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Origin | Synthpop |
Years active | 2004–present |
Labels | Drag City |
Website | Particletracks.com |
Bachelorette is the musical project of New Zealander Annabel Alpers. Formed in 2004 in Christchurch, Bachelorette mixes '60s psychedelia and girl-group pop with folk and vintage electronics.
Prior to Bachelorette, Alpers played in Christchurch surf-band Hawaii Five-O and Hiss Explosion.
Musical career
Bachelorette envisions herself surrounded by her computer ‘musicians’; her songs “often start simply and spiral outward like cotton candy in the making.”.[1] Bachelorette’s music was originally crafted with thrift-store found instruments, resulting in psychedelic computer folk music, "a student of computer-based composition",[2] or a “lo-fi, one-woman version of Animal Collective.”[3]
Alpers tends to write all albums in isolation in various countryside locales: the
Bachelorette's self-titled album Bachelorette was released internationally the week of May 16, 2011. Don't Panic Magazine described it as "pretty and unsettling, like a balloon floating towards a nail".[4] Alpers has suggested both through the album's lyrics and in interviews that Bachelorette will be her final album recording under this moniker.[5] Bachelorette toured Europe, the UK and the US intermittently throughout 2011 in support of this release.
Discography
Studio albums
- Isolation Loops (2007), Electroplate/Mistletone; Re-released as LP 2010, Drag City
- My Electric Family (2009), Drag City/Mistletone/Particle Tracks
- Bachelorette (2011), Drag City/Souterrain Transmissions/Mistletone/Particle Tracks
EP
- "The End of Things"(2005), Arch Hill Recordings; Re-released as LP 2010, Drag City
Single
- "Do The Circuit" b/w "I Want To Be Your Girlfriend" (2009), Drag City
References
- ^ Pareles, Jon. New York Times, 7/5/2009
- ^ O'Connell, Jake. Associated Press, 26 May 2009
- ^ Q Magazine, June 2009, pg 117
- ^ Laher, Yusuf (16 May 2011). "Interview with Bachelorette". Don't Panic Magazine. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ^ "Musical Pairings: Bachelorette – Bachelorette". Turntable Kitchen. 6 February 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2012.