Hamerkop's forthcoming debut, Remote, is a fully immersive sonic experience with elements of electronica, pop and field recordings combining to a danceable, dazzling degree.
 

Consisting of Bachelorette's Annabel Alpers and drummer/engineer Adam Cooke, Hamerkop exudes equal parts romance and ennui. On "The Splendour That Was Rome", they synthesize disco, electro and kraut in an immaculate pop sensibility. A longing to share the good old days and sweet old world scenes with a new lover infuses with the sonics to form a lava that erupts and flows into the atmosphere, cascading psychedelically over the present-day ruins, as Annabel Alpers' massed choral voices soar to the skies.

"The Splendour That Was Rome" contains all the distinctive melody, pretty songwriting and synthetic immersion that made Alpers' pioneering work as Bachelorette such a standout. But the constant triggering of the senses from unexpected angles and algorithms has added a whole new dimension to her craft. This is a musician working at the peak of her powers. And these are everybody's sounds, translated into a highly textured, instantly recognizable musical language.

Genre-defying, but familiar; experimental, but accessible. It's just two people, but it could be all of us. Listen to the new Hamerkop single above and observe the February 7th release date!