Jacuzzi, Geneva: Triple Fire (black & white) LP

Since first splashing on to the Southern California circuit in the mid-aughts, Geneva Jacuzzi quickly cemented herself as the queen of the Los Angeles underground. Her immersive and unhinged multimedia performances are the stuff of legend, a psychotropic gallery of masks, costumes, confrontation, and massive art installations. Jacuzzi's recordings are equally revered, catchy hooks and cryptic moods dusted in 4-track grit. Her third official full-length, "Triple Fire" vividly expands and crystallizes Jacuzzi's signature fusion of midnight melody and mutant aerobics across a 12-track hit parade of wildcard synth-pop and sly post-apocalyptic camp. The collection burns through shades of sardonic strut, coldwave kiss off, retro-futurist body music, and cheeky glitterball pop. Taken as a whole, "Triple Fire" comes as close as any document yet to capturing Jacuzzi's kaleidoscopic alchemy of pop sugar and chaos energy, flickering between icy and ironic, chic and surreal, hungry and heartsick.