Complex History Of A Dying Star

With songs of loss, longing and astronomic phenomena, and an enticing mix of organic and synthetic (not to mention those spiralling layered vocals), it garnered gushing praise internationally, and led to her signing with American label Drag City.

– Music writer Gareth Shute on Bachelorette's 2006 debut album Isolation Loops, Audioculture, 4 May 2020

When I was an university doing really experimental stuff, I had this aching desire to make melodic pop songs. And then after doing that for a while in Bachelorette, I needed to experiment more again, rather than just fall back on a set of pop songwriting skills I'd developed. There comes a time when you want to challenge both yourself and your audience, and push into new territory again.

– Songwriter Annabel Alpers ( aka Bachelorette) on her development as a musician, Stuff website, 18 June 2017