Jackie Palmer is a she-wolf, a vocally mesmerizing new-wave leader of the pack. She possesses the grace of chaos, voracious instincts, raw poetry and the refinement of an untamable animal.

The genre is primal cold wave: a combination of carnal bass melodies, minimal moon-dance drum machines and languid guitars joining forces with synthesized sound. Jackie Palmer sings as she speaks. The result is direct, an imminent dream, a declaration, a need, the visceral art of musical words impressed on skin…