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Alpers has a knack like few others for spinning our over-interconnected loneliness into something more like a blissful collective daydream.
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Never less than dreamy, My Electric Family is endlessly inventive and rewarding.
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MojoA real treasure. [Sep 2009, p.90]
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Although Alpers has found a winning sound, she's still scrambling to gather her notes and draft a theme she can deliver with conviction.
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Alpers is smart, you can tell immediately, yet the album feels carefully scrubbed of identifying marks, swinging between Flaming Lips-size pomp and Laurie Anderson-style catatonia.
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Q MagazineThere's no doubting her sonic ambitions, the glowing multitracked vocals and eclectic instrumentation here resembling a kind of lo-fi, one-woman version of Animal Collective. [Jun 2009, p.117]
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So swathed in electronic trickery, space-age swoops and super-produced vocals is My Electric Family, though, that it ends up a little soulless; individually the tracks have a removed piquancy, but an hour’s solid exposure leaves you yearning for a crackle, some fuzz, or any human intervention.