Colombian experimentalist Lucrecia Dalt has always thrived on creating worlds that feel both intimate and uncanny. With A Danger to Ourselves, she takes that instinct further, crafting a record that is as much about sensation as it is about sound. Released through Rvng Intl., the album stands as one of her most immersive statements to date.
Built from fragmented rhythms, voice manipulations, and abstract textures, the music doesn’t follow conventional arcs so much as it moves like shifting weather. At times, Dalt whispers in the listener’s ear, only to let the track dissolve into pulsations that feel mechanical, almost bodily. The effect is disorienting but hypnotic, a constant tug-of-war between presence and absence.
Lyrically and thematically, the album probes the instability of identity and the porous borders between self and environment. Dalt’s voice sometimes treated until it becomes another instrument, sometimes left stark and direct guides the listener through that uncertainty. The title itself, A Danger to Ourselves, suggests both intimacy and threat, and the songs sit exactly at that threshold.
What makes this record particularly striking is its refusal to resolve. Even the most grounded moments are undercut by unease, as if stability were always about to give way. It’s not music designed for comfort, but for confrontation: with technology, with memory, with the limits of the body.
For longtime followers of Dalt, this release continues her evolution into one of experimental music’s most distinctive voices bridging the cerebral and the visceral. For newcomers, it might feel challenging at first, but that challenge is precisely the point.
A Danger to Ourselves is unsettling, searching, and deeply alive an album that refuses to sit quietly in the background.