Bachelorette, a.k.a. Annabel Alpers, is a lady that's been floating around the musical stratosphere for a while, but if, like the me of yesterday, you haven't listened to her stuff yet, I strongly recommend you get to it on the double.
She makes "stuff that buzzes one out", as she puts it. Floaty vocals and expert production come together in tracks with a surprising and refreshing amount of variation. We're quite used to laid-back, floaty, female-fronted 'quirky' indie, but this is a creation all of its own. There's layers of britpop, funk and electro, all tied up in a big pop bow, and even though that description might make it seem nightmarish to some people, just try in on for size and see how well it fits.
She's currently on tour around the US with Beach House, and - dare I say it (yes) - I prefer her stuff to theirs. But, fear not, she isn't planning on heading back to her native New Zealand after that - no, she's a hard-working single lady and she'll be gracing the fair isle of the UK with dates in Leeds, Sheffield and London, all of which are on her Myspace page.
Here's a nice video for 'Her Rotating Head', taken from her latest album 'My Electric Family', and cos I just couldn't decide which video to put up, you get two for the price of one with the video for 'Complex History Of A Dying Star' as well.
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