***We visualize the music of BACHELORETTE beaming through distant star systems, gliding and bouncing through a matrix of coolly illuminated neural pathways. Yet, all the songs on her new album were written on Earth: Radley, UK; Tripoli, Libya; Millwood, VA; Brooklyn, NYC and back home in Auckland, NZ. ANNABEL ALPERS (the heart behind Bachelorette’s machine) is no sky-bound jet-trash. Her new, self-titled album has a corporeal, sensual tangibility. If you were a fan of the wildly under-heard Isolation Loops and My Electric Family, you will be touched and torched once again by her deep-space solitude and the soulful ache that radiates from her best songs. Annabel Alpers dreams the trappings of her electro psych pop—her melodies, her minimal lines of synth and harmony vocal—and then brings the complex shades of this vision into our world through her music. All the traveling done in the last year or so of Bachelorette’s life has seeped into her rich-toned amalgamation of sounds. When organic waves enter her work—as cathedral chimes did in Oxford—they return swathed in a lunar halo. Bachelorette is epic from its very genesis. Hovering over a fluttering blanket of voices, a ghostly vision of the future is distilled with the same seductive inevitability of a Greek oracle in “Grow Old With Me.” With the controls to her destiny thus programmed, Annabel gestures toward an alien visitation—or is it an all-too-human introspection? Her metaphors are a strong tonic, entertaining with their surfaces while the sounds race to your heart. Bachelorette’s great...
LP $19.75
05/17/2011
CD $13.75
05/17/2011
***The release of BACHELORETTE’s My Electric Family introduced her pop sounds to new listeners all around the planet. Little did they know that there were more sublime Bachelorette songs where that came from—and not in the future, but rather, the past... Drag City is representing for our crush on Bachelorette with vinyl-only reissues of her first two releases, The End of Things and Isolation Loops, the first time either of these records have appeared in analog form. Despite the clear superiority of the vinyl-based sound, both vinyl releases contain download codes for the listener’s digital convenience. The End of Things came from the void in 2005, a mini-LP that walked like an album of all great songs. Here, Bachelorette (aka ANNABEL ALPERS of New Zealand) sketched out her basic design, a bedroom version of hi-tech dance pop with an elastic sense of style under the surface, its scope a vision of emotional landscapes where the intimate can become the infinite in a sudden flash. This new vinyl version features new cover artwork, a complete departure from the original The End of Things design. No Export to Europe. (STREET DATE - 11/16/2010)
LP $13.75
11/16/2010
***The release of BACHELORETTE’s My Electric Family introduced her pop sounds to new listeners all around the planet. Little did they know that there were more sublime Bachelorette songs where that came from—and not in the future, but rather, the past... Drag City is representing for our crush on Bachelorette with vinyl-only reissues of her first two releases, The End of Things and Isolation Loops, the first time either of these records have appeared in analog form. Despite the clear superiority of the vinyl-based sound, both vinyl releases contain download codes for the listener’s digital convenience. Isolation Loops was first released in 2007 on Mistletone Records. Bachelorette continued to fly over a full spectrum of popular music forms, from girl-group to psychedelic to torch to disco, always with an inventive ear for sounds and a soul-breaking gift for melody. Scored with the chilly sounds of drum machines and keyboards, Bachelorette’s music melts the ice of deep space as it taps essences... the celestial joy of like and love, the jubilation of selfhood, a wandering spirit, loneliness bordering on the cosmic. No Export to Europe. (STREET DATE - 11/16/2010)
LP $19.75
11/16/2010