Stephen W. Terrell • The Santa Fe New Mexican

Seacrest, whose last gig was with the Albuquerque rockabilly outfit The Long Goners, has evolved into a tattooed chanteuse specializing in jazzy, torchy and extremely tunes with a band featuring a double bass, sax and trombone.While Seacrest’s voice is the main draw here, don’t forget The Yes Men, who create the dangerous atmosphere. Grimes’ bass is a major component on most cuts. And sometimes the horn section sounds like theyà­re engaging in a gang rumble.

Seacrest performs several standards like “Strange Fruit,” “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (“Room service. Here’s your ham sandwich, Miss Elliott. . .”) and these are fine — but her vocal talents are best showcased in the ones written by her sidemen/friends Michael Grimes and Pat Bova.

The best of these are Bova’s “Cold in My Bedà® in which Seacrest’s voice sounds like a transmission from the Dark Dimension, and Grimes’ slow spooky “Sweet Salvation.” Both these tunes skirt the weird aural hinterlands somewhere along the border between Tom Waits and David Lynch. I hope her next album will be 100 percent originals.