Bachelorette

Bachelorette is currently trying to figure out how to reproduce with machines. Ideally, she would like to be able to grow an album in her tummy over a nine month period, so that all she'd need to do is have exciting relations with some good-looking technology for, say, 40 minutes and leave her body to do the rest of the work. This would be much easier than clicking on a mouse and staring into a computer screen for months on end. That said, she really does enjoy the feel of plastic keys on the end of her finger tips. It makes her so emotionless that she wants to sing overtop of herself. What a lady! Bachelorette's 7-track E.P. "The End of Things" and new full-length album, "Isolation Loops" are available online at www.smokecds.com and www.amplifier.co.nz.Reviews of Bachelorette’s Isolation Loops ............................................................ ................................................... National Radio – Nick Bollinger: “…(Isolation Loops) offers a peak into a private world in which humans invariably bring disappointment, but solace is found in electronic companions. Multi-tracking her voice to create gorgeous, thick harmonies, Alpers offers a wry take on romance, accompanying herself on a range of electronic ephemera – synthesisers, drum machines and cheesy old keyboards … “Isolation Loops” (is) a title that seems to sum up both Alpers’ themes and her largely electronic mode of delivery and it stood out to me as one of the year’s freshest local releases.” ............................................................ ....................................................Sunday Star Times – Grant Smithies: “…In these lonely and primitive surroundings, Alpers has made my favourite New Zealand record of the year so far, an intensely personal album about love, loss, atomic particles and planets. She records under the suitably solitary name of Bachelorette, playing all the instruments, endlessly layering her cool clear voice with sounds from electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, bass, drums and an impressive array of el cheapo junk shop …Tender, tentative, open-hearted and frequently gorgeous, Isolation Loops sounds unlike any other album made in this country.” ............................................................ ....................................................Metro Magazine - Gary Steel: “From the first note this debut is endearingly different. Bachelorette is a one-woman band consisting of Annabel Alpers, who recorded her astonishing songs of loss, longing, astronomy and physics phenomena during a long winter in a remote South Island cottage. Right from the get-go, it's clear that she's a special talent. … Alpers never lets her cleverness with a lyric or her playfully nostalgic-sounding synthesisers get in the way of the emotional core of these great songs, which ring with a certain universality while claiming a genuinely new corner of New Zealand musical iconography. On songs like "Complex History of a Dying Star", Alpers' imagination makes most songwriters seem like dullards. A brilliant album that proves isolation can be good for you." ............................................................ ....................................................Real Groove Magazine, Album of the Month – Stevie Kaye: “…Quietly psychedelic, the quavery vocal harmonies, wheezy synthesisers and attic-salvaged stringed instruments are layered with a shy urgency, a breathtaking tangle of dreaminess and directness… slow oscillations between intimacy and abstraction…. Having understood the implications of technology – electricity having made us all angels, etcetera – she’s fractured herself into a girl-group of one, clouds of ah-ah-ahs and shoo-wop shoo-wops both underscoring and distracting from her tales of gravitational and hormonal pull…” ............................................................ ....................................................Reviews of Bachelorette’s The End of Things EP: ............................................................ ....................................................National Radio – Nick Bollinger: “…This is cunning stuff – carefully thought out and beautifully executed. Alpers is a great singer, too, and has had a lot of fun layering countless tracks of her own voice to create lush and spine-tingling harmonies. Titled “The End of Things”, Bachelorette’s debut is really an EP - just seven tracks – but there’s more sustained imagination here than you’ll find in most full-length albums. I just hope there’s more Bachelorette to come…” ............................................................ .................................................... New Zealand Musician Magazine - Gareth Shute: “There is a lot more going on in this perfectly-crafted synth-pop release than your average Ladytron or Lali Puna track… Overall this is a simply amazing debut.” ............................................................ ....................................................Sunday Star Times - Grant Smithies: “The End of Things is the first solo EP by Annabel "Bachelorette" Alpers, and my only problem with it is it is too short… It is indeed a most miraculous sound, slightly krautrock-ish but warmer, friendlier…” ............................................................ ...................................................Dominion Post - Lindsay Davis: “There's an alluring dreamlike quality to the quirky songs of Auckland's Bachelorette… As a debut, this seven track EP will leave you wanting more.”