Lucrecia Dalt (CO)

With David Sylvian as co-producer and collaborator, Lucrecia Dalt enters a new phase of poetic clarity and sonic intimacy. Her latest work reaffirms what her trajectory has long suggested: she’s one of the most singular and shape-shifting voices in experimental music today.

A former geotechnical engineer turned avant-garde composer, Lucrecia Dalt has spent the past decade bending narrative, memory, and abstraction into sound. From early surrealist electronics (Commotus, Syzygy) to the sensual science of her RVNG Intl. trilogy (Anticlines, No era sólida, ¡Ay!), she’s moved seamlessly between cerebral and emotional registers. Her music isn't built around hooks or melodies but pressure points: dense bass pulses, fractured rhythms, and voices that hover somewhere between invocation and inner monologue.

2024’s A Danger to Ourselves — co-produced with David Sylvian — finds Dalt more open and direct, yet no less enigmatic. With contributions from Juana Molina, Camille Mandoki, and Eliana Joy, the album balances skeletal beats with lush instrumentation and reflective lyricism. It’s an inward gaze that reveals multitudes, from romantic fragility to existential unrest.

Dalt also composes for film and television (The Baby, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Rabbit Hole), where her sonic vocabulary — eerie, tactile, quietly radical — feels right at home in psychological terrain. Whether scoring emotional undercurrents or conjuring imaginary languages, Dalt’s music resists linearity, instead offering a space to dwell, to feel, to deconstruct.

RIYL: David Sylvian, Juana Molina, Klein, Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri, Ana Roxanne, Electroacoustic surrealism, Narrative sound collage, Experimental Latin futurism, Introspective avant-pop, Lyra Pramuk, Jenny Hval, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Kelly Moran.

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