Her first EP, Find Indigo, was out in 2022, and her magnificent debut album, Close to the Mystery, was out in 2024 via Ruination Records Co.. Jackie West‘s masterful baroque-pop songs form abstract scenes in a larger story about a self and worldview taking shape. The varied musical treatments mimic her changes in setting and vantage. She breaks up sophisticated harmonies recalling bossa nova and classic R&B with cycling chord progressions influenced by folk, progressive pop, and shoegaze. West’s alluring, jazz-inflected vocals sit commandingly at the center of the mix, bringing a diverse collection of classic singers—Sibylle Baier, Vashti Bunyan, Hope Sandoval, Peggy Lee.
Today West is back with a new song, Offer, an epic new 10-minute single out once again via Ruination Record Co..

Offer is the new ten-minute Jackie West song, oscillating between spoken word and an infectious ear-worm melody, and takes us on a journey and back again, through generational trauma, the Socratic method, the cost of recorded music, and at it’s core, what it means to fundamentally be alive.

What She Says: “Offer is about many things. It’s about propaganda— how it’s difficult to trace a message back to its source; how there’s never been much room to ask why and what do you mean by that? We tend to take things at face value and then wonder why all we see is a mask. Offer is about learning to accept your blindspots and realizing we all have them/ how we see someone is generally how we see ourselves, so we must have compassion for ourselves first— real forgiveness and letting go— to see another clearly. Offer is about being attached to the story, generational trauma, seeing it and loving it enough to say, “you’ve been with me, my mother, grandmother and great grandmother for so long,” now you can go back to them— “I don’t need to live according to your script anymore.”

Offer is out now digitally via Ruination Records Co. A new Jackie West LP will be out early next year. Look HERE for more information on Jackie West.