An evening of electronic pop and machine music.

Bachelorette (NZ/Drag City)

Bachelorette’s music beams to us through a universe of unconquered pop music, where long beams of sunlight extend to infinity, and blue moons rise wistfully in the deep purple expanse. She stands in the cradle of modern songwriting, that of psychedelic pop music. The sense of infinite possibility felt in those songs, the desire to manipulate a collective sensation to become anything at all, informs Bachelorette’s journey. The psych vibe shimmers in an acousto-synthetic haze, not really overt, so completely are those long-ago verses absorbed in her DNA. Her beats, voices, keyboards, and a variety of guitars and percussions to create the melodic constructs we know so well, and delight in, and sing along with, and imagine to.

"She may fear becoming a machine, but when Alpers folds herself into the electronic process, the results are delicious, even ecstatic..." Pitchfork

"...Alpers has a knack like few others for spinning our over-interconnected loneliness into something more like a blissful collective daydream..." Michael Brodeur, The Boston Phoenix, June 1st 2009.

"... Annabel Alpers (is) a uniquely engaging oddity who captures NZ's sense of space and seclusion. Her debut, Isolation Loops, was just that, recorded in the company of vintage machinery over winter in a remote cottage, and though My Electric Family ropes in fellow musicians and feeds off warmer pop currents, it still sounds utterly removed. Alpers' flighty vocal is the female equivalent of Syd Barrett and the multitracked harmonies a Spectorish touch, but there's as much '60s Joe Meek, '70s post-punk (Mindwarp recalls Girls At Our Best's jaunty exuberance, Long Time Gone the fragile mantras of Young Marble Giants) and '80s/'90s too (Her Rotating Head occupies the giddy space between Yazoo and Stereolab) . A real treasure". Reviewed by Martin Aston (4/5 stars, Mojo Magazine, Sept. 2009)



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