The release of Bachelorette’s My Electric Family introduced her pop sounds to new listeners all around the planet. Little did they know that there were more sublime Bachelorette songs where that came from — and not in the future, but rather, the past…

Drag City is representing for our crush on Bachelorette with vinyl-only reissues of her first two releases, “The End of Things” and Isolation Loops, the first time either of these records have appeared in analog form. Despite the clear superiority of the vinyl-based sound, both vinyl releases contain download codes for the listener’s digital convenience.
“The End of Things” came from the void in 2005, a mini-LP that walked like an album of all great songs. Here, Bachelorette (aka Annabel Alpers of New Zealand) sketched out her basic design, a bedroom version of hi-tech dance pop with an elastic sense of style under the surface, its scope a vision of emotional landscapes where the intimate can become the infinite in a sudden flash. This new vinyl version features new cover artwork, a complete departure from the original “The End of Things” design.

Isolation Loops was first released in 2007 by Electroplate Recordings and Mistletone Records. Bachelorette continued to fly over a full spectrum of popular music forms, from girl-group to psychedelic to torch to disco, always with an inventive ear for sounds and a soul-breaking gift for melody. Scored with the chilly sounds of drum machines and keyboards, Bachelorette’s music melts the ice of deep space as it taps essences … the celestial joy of like and love, the jubilation of selfhood, a wandering spirit, loneliness bordering on the cosmic.

There’s only one first time to fall in love, but somehow every Bachelorette song is like the first time all over again. Annabel is wandering the world at present, moving around as she works out the music for the new Bachelorette album, due for release in the Spring of 2011. In the meantime, we invite you to acquaint yourselves with the irresistible early sounds of this futuristic femme.