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New Zealand's Annabel Alpers, after a stint with surf-rockers
Hawaii Five-O, debuted her project Bachelorette with the EP
The End Of Things (Arch Hill, 2005) and
the album Isolation Loops (Mistletone, 2006), entirely recorded by
her on keyboards and computers.
My Electric Family (Drag City, 2009) was a more professional affair
that enhanced her retro taste and fully took advantage of her encyclopedic
knowledge of popular music, from the
soothing cowpunk rhythm and falsetto melody of Instructions for Insomniacs
to the multi-part Yes-like harmonies of National Grid,
from the twangy girl-group lullaby of Donkey
to the Todd Rundgren-ian cabaret of Dream Sequence.
Bachelorette is at its best in the more electronic pieces:
the Abba-like disco shuffle of Her Rotating Head and especially
the catchy disco-funk Mindwarp.
Unfortunately there aren't enough ideas to sustain a full-length. As an EP,
this would have been a gem.
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