Following her magnificent 2022 sci-fi bolero album ¡Ay!, which was one of our Albums Picks of the Year, Lucrecia Dalt is back with A Danger to Ourselves, her ninth solo album and perhaps her most emotionally open work to date. Out on September 5th through RVNG Intl, the new record finds the Berlin-based, Colombia-born composer and sound artist shedding the fictional and fantastical narratives of past works to chart a more intimate sphere, delving into the uncertain territory where love, longing, and vulnerability meet. “In the past, I often turned to movies and texts as mirrors to shape my stories, guiding me away from revealing too much from within, inventing isolated fictions,” she explains. “This time, I wanted to create music that flows cinematically and sets a landscape to tell a love story that flirts with improbability, the miraculous and the mysterious.”
Written during and after touring ¡Ay!, and shaped in the early days of a new relationship, the upcoming A Danger to Ourselves is a deeply personal reflection. To bring the record to life, Dalt enlisted the help of a remarkable cast of collaborators, including Juana Molina, Camille Mandoki, and Eliana Joy, alongside musicians Cyrus Campbell and Chris Jonas, and most notably the legendary David Sylvian, who joins as co-producer and guitarist.
Ahead of the album’s release, Dalt is enticing us with first single ‘divina’, a glimmering reverie of piano, guitar, finger snaps and cascading rhythm, sung in both Spanish and English. ‘divina’ emerged from “spending enough time in the abyssal realm of erotic delirium”, as she describes. “For me, the lyrics function as declarations, or odes—like those of Sharon Olds—and the most personal truths I have explored to date are found within those lines.” The single is offered with a beautifully strange accompanying video, directed by Tony Lowe and conceptualized by Dalt, featuring Dalt alongside multidisciplinary artist Lucia Maher-Tatar. It takes inspiration from the words of Sufi mystic Rumi: “Love is a mirror… you see nothing except your real face.” Watch the video below and mark your calendars for September.
