Bachelorette is the musical project of

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er Annabel Alpers. Formed in 2004 in

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, Bachelorette mixes '60s

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and girl-group pop with

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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.”. Bachelorette’s music was originally crafted with thrift-store found instruments, resulting in psychedelic computer folk music, "a student of computer-based composition", or a “lo-fi, one-woman version of Animal Collective.” Alpers tends to write all albums in isolation in various countryside locales: the Canterbury Hills and west coast of New Zealand, and in rural Virginia. Her music is of that interdependent relationship - sometimes romantic - that exists between humans and machine, where one cannot successfully conquer the other. After touring the

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in 2008, Drag City put out Bachelorette's first international release, ''My Electric Family''. Bachelorette's songs "Long Time Gone" and "Her Rotating Head" were used in

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episodes 6.04 and 6.08, respectively. Bachelorette has since toured with

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, Bill Callahan,

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, Low,

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, and

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, in addition to her own headline tours in the US and Europe. 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". Alpers has suggested both through the album's lyrics and in interviews that ''Bachelorette'' will be her final album recording under this moniker. 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

External links

Drag City

Bachelorette's Myspace page

Particle Tracks

Bacholorette on Audioculture.co.nz

Bachelorette on Facebook
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