Bachelorette

About the Artist

In early 2008, Annabel Alpers, aka Bachelorette, funded her first, and ultimately groundbreaking, US tour.

Along the way, she sold some records to an eager Ryan Adams at a small club in New York City and made fans out of execs from Chicago's Drag City Records.

Between shows, she camped out in Portland, Oregon: 'Inspired' by that region's infamous and constant rain, she found herself intently working on songs for her new album.

Soundly back in NZ, Annabel secluded herself in Otaki Beach, where much of the tracking for My Electric Family took place. Intent and focused on realising her musical vision, Annabel enlisted MAINZ' Roy Martin (The Nothing, Trans Am) and trekked up to Whenuapai to record the Royal NZ Air Force Brass Band for backing instrumentals on one track.

Finally, after over a year of hard work, Annabel was approached enthusiastically by Chicago's legendary Drag City Records to put out her new album, My Electric Family. The catch was that she hadn't finished mixing it.

After a muddled attempt at mixing via phone to the USA, Annabel flew down to Dunedin to work with Dale Cotton (HDU, Die!Die!Die!) before jetting off to work as a massage therapist at a gambling tournament in Melbourne.

My Electric Family features a broader instrumentation than Bachelorette's previous releases. The electronic pulses, synthesizers and gorgeous vocal harmonies that characterise Bachelorette's sound remain, but are enhanced by extensive live drumming as well as brass, guitar, bass and pedal steel (played by Dino Karlis, Tom Watson, Craig Terris, Andrew Bain and Lee Prebble). This album flows seamlessly from psychedelic pop to dance grooves to the sci-folk lullaby you thought you could only dream of.