Charlotte Adigéry is making ASMR noises into her phone. It’s 10:30 a.m. in New York, where I am very much just waking up, but mid-afternoon in Ghent, Belgium, where the Belgian-Caribbean musician is on the other end of our FaceTime call and full of energy. We were speaking about YouTube and Adigéry’s fascination with the percussive effects of ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, the viral video format that employs whispers and other soothing or stimulating audio “triggers.” She begins mimicking the sound of “a woman just brushing her hair and rubbing her hands on the mic,” which are two ASMR tropes, then breaks into laughter.

Today, Adigéry has released her own interpretation of ASMR in a new music video for “Cursed and Cussed,” a song off February’s debut EP, Zandoli. We see the artist in five skintight black latex ensembles, several wigs, and dramatic makeup, such as metallic blue lipstick, hot pink eyeliner, and long acrylic nails. As the track plays in the background, Adigéry cracks an egg on the head of a model in head-to-toe latex, grips a bowl of crisped rice cereal, and stabs a styrofoam block with a knife. The resulting visual is absolutely indebted to the artist’s gaudy and theatrical sensibility, the exact knowing and ironic brand of camp that is a defining point of Adigéry’s work and what has made the wildly experimental singer one to watch.

Born and raised in Ghent to parents from the Martinique and Guadeloupe islands, Adigéry has been surrounded by music her entire life. Growing up, she recalls hearing her musician mother singing along to everything, but with a specific fondness for French (yé-yé, chanson) and Caribbean (zouk, bachata, salsa) genres. Adigéry began performing in her late teens and studied music at a university in Hasselt, at the same time becoming part of Ghent’s tiny but compelling music scene, which is largely recognized for its noise and hard-core punk bands. She began WWWater, a post-punk solo project, in 2015 as a therapeutic way to explore her interior life. That very year, she met her now primary collaborator Bolis Pupul, with whom she shares her current record label DEEWEE, and the pair began working under Adigéry’s name and delving deeper into the realm of darkwave. Of her relationship with Pupul, Adigéry says, “We speak the same musical language, and he has the best and most encyclopedic taste. But most of all, he’s so raw and genuine when it comes to music. And, yeah, punk! It’s really good to have someone who’s been around and never lost the urge or energy to make music.”