Lucretia Dalt - A Danger To Ourselves LP [RVNG INTL]

Great new album from Lucy! Experimental "pop" from Columbia-born artist... would do great battle with recent Einsturzende Neubauten albums!

Lucrecia Dalt’s A Danger to Ourselves is a fearless reflection on the unfiltered complexities of human connection. 




Following up her breakthrough 2022 album ¡Ay!, A Danger to Ourselves unravels like a deeply personal conversation; Dalt’s voice is foregrounded and formidable, supported by a lush array of acoustic orchestration and processing, collaged percussive patterns, and an esteemed cast of collaborators including David Sylvian, who co-produced the album with Dalt, Juana Molina, Alex Lazaro, and Camille Mandoki. Mastered by Heba Kadry, CD includes a printed insert with lyrics in English and Spanish.



Lucrecia Dalt’s A Danger to Ourselves is a daring
yet intimate reflection on the unfiltered complexities
of human connection. Stripping away fictional
narratives present on the artist’s last several album
endeavors, A Danger to Ourselves arrives from a
place of emotional sincerity. Sonically unraveling like
a deeply personal conversation, Dalt’s voice is focal,
supported by a lush array of acoustic orchestration and
percussive instrumentation, and an esteemed cast of
collaborators.
Dalt, born in Pereira, Colombia, was raised in a
family of music enthusiasts who encouraged her to
pick up a guitar when she was nine. Dalt followed
this creative impulse, becoming fascinated with
computer-based production and left a burgeoning
career as a civil engineer, moving from Medellín to
Barcelona and ultimately Berlin, where she developed
her distinctive, adventurous sound. Her work has spun
into increasingly accomplished terrains with Anticlines
(2018) and No era sólida (2020), and notably, ¡Ay!,
Dalt’s 2022 breakthrough sci-fi bolero album. Along the
way, Dalt expanded her practice into scoring for films
like On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), HBO series
The Baby (2022), and the forthcoming psychological
horror Rabbit Trap, while creating sound installations
and performances that showcase her luminous
modulations and distinctive, evolving vocal approach.
A Danger to Ourselves emerged from fragmentary
declarations Dalt scribbled while navigating life on
tour for ¡Ay!, and the formative moments of a new
relationship. She began crystallizing these intimate
fragments into musical compositions in January 2024,
giving gradual form to a purposeful constellation of
songs. The album’s sonic architecture builds upon
dynamic drum loops provided by collaborator Alex
Lázaro, whose percussive backbone, as on ¡Ay!,
became a canvas for Dalt’s layered vocals. Rather than
following conventional melodic structures, the album
generates musicality through the interplay of bass
lines, rhythms, and compositional design. A Danger
to Ourselves reveals Dalt’s uncompromising quest
for sonic clarity where bold production choices and
meticulous recording techniques encourage both voice
and instrument to harmonize with newfound depth and
radiance.
Distinctly anti-conceptual, A Danger to Ourselves
is a poetic instinct by which Dalt ushers in an
unobstructed focus on the music itself, using vocals
that vibrate past the songs’ parameters, and observing
the beaded echoes of primal, romantic thrill. Dalt’s
lucid attention to detail is palpable in every measure,
a dedication that spins in concentric circles, forming a
field that unifies the personal and ethereal. Drawn from
intuitive experiments, the album uses simple gestures
and intricate compositions to weave wandering lines,
as in “divina,” which moves between Spanish and
English through elastic soundscapes and mesmerizing
audial collage.
The album title emerged from David Sylvian’s lyrics
in “cosa rara,” an emblematic reflection of the fragility
of life, the oscillations of love, and propulsive longings
for the miraculous. A Danger to Ourselves mirrors
these transcendent states, refracting the complexity
of human entanglements and the desire for liberation
from dopamine spirals and common pathways towards
a more revelatory inner world. A collaborative collage
with contributions from numerous acclaimed artists,
Sylvian himself played a dual role as co-producer
and musician on A Danger to Ourselves. Additional
collaborations feature prominently throughout the
record, with Juana Molina co-writing and performing
on “the common reader,” Camille Mandoki adding
vocals to “caes,” Cyrus Campbell’s foundational
electric and upright bass work, and Eliana Joy
providing backing vocals and string arrangements on
multiple tracks.
In the luminous depths of A Danger to Ourselves,
Dalt orchestrates a profound metamorphosis where
the personal becomes universal through sonic
alchemy. This record stands as both culmination and
departure—a portal where her previous experimental
journeys converge into something startlingly intimate
yet expansive. The album is a web of emotional
revelations, each composition a precise indicator of
vulnerability where Dalt’s voice embodies revelation
across new harmonic territories. Dalt has created
a living document of intuition beyond conventional
boundaries, offering passage into realms where music
becomes both mirror and window