Mistletone

New Zealand-via-New York’s one-woman space-pop goddess Bachelorette is coming to Australia in October as a guest of Melbourne Festival, plus one Sydney show only at Goodgod Small Club on Saturday 22 October, with support from Donny Benet and Jasmina Maschina.

Described variously as a one-woman Animal Collective and a female Syd Barrett, Bachelorette (AKA Annabel Alpers) is set to transport you with her singular brand of psychedelic computer folk pop, comprising expansive, layered loops and radiant multi-tracked harmonies.

BACHELORETTE TOUR DATES:

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL, Wed 19 Oct: Bachelorette supported by Rat Vs Possum @ The Toff. Tickets $25 from Moshtix or phone 1300 438 849.

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL, Fri 21 Oct: Bachelorette supporting Konono No. 1 @ Forum Theatre. Tickets $40 from Ticketmaster or phone 1300 723 038.

SYDNEY, Sat 22 Oct: Bachelorette supported by Donny Benet and Jasmina Maschina @ Goodgod Small Club. Tickets $20 + booking fee on sale now from Moshtix.

Bachelorette, the third album by Bachelorette, was recently released by Mistletone Records / Inertia in Australia, Drag City in the US and Souterrain Transmissions in Europe, and has been attracting the highest praise for its accomplished blend of 70s psychedelia, 80s electro-pop, 90s shoegaze and 00s electronica.

The music of Bachelorette is a strange, enveloping tangle of synthesised melody and claustrophobic texture built around Alpers’ raw and endlessly multi-layered voice. Her hypnotic live show with synchronised visuals will take you on a sonic journey to a universe sustained by the logic of androids, cities, waveforms and love.

PRAISE FOR BACHELORETTE by BACHELORETTE

• “Playful in parts, solemn, and sombre, this is a deep, dense weave of rich psychedelic pop… Alpers closes the book on Bachelorette at the height of the project’s powers” – MUSIC AUSTRALIA GUIDE

• “Bachelorette is its own universe… the whole package is pulsing with life.” – MESS +NOISE
• “There’s always been a peculiar warmth to the analog synths and the drowsy, shivering harmonies, but there are more frequent bursts of humanity when xylophones, guitars and whistling filter through the radiophonic state” – BEAT

• “A swirling mix of folky introspection, driving, Kosmische repetition, and undulating drones. The constant throughout is Kiwi Annabel Alpers beautiful voice, an otherworldly croon that’s gospel-like in its devotion.” – TWO THOUSAND

• “Alpers is making music like few others, a one-of-a-kind blend of electronics and folk lyricism” – DRUM MEDIA

• “Few exponents of electronic pop create albums as original and enduring as (Bachelorette)… a refinement of her already prodigious talent for vocal harmonies over infatuating synth hooks” – SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

• “Infused with the radiophonic experiments of the 60s & the synth innovations of the 70s and 80s and a distinct interpretation of pop classicism that is Annabel’s alone… This self-titled work represents in some ways a culmination of all the Bachelorette  material recorded to date; a brilliant balance of consonance and dissonace the lingers in the imagination and demands repeated listens.”– TRIPLE R Album of the Week