Lucrecia Dalt is an example of a 'new' artist that I discovered through my curiosity in another, 'established' artist.
Earlier this year, my inbox bursting with the barrage of Bandcamp mailshots, urging me to buy the latest music releases, my attention was caught by Lucrecia's EP, cosa rara, featuring "a rare appearance by cult music legend" David Sylvian.
I enjoyed the EP so much that I featured two of the three versions in a couple of Dubhed selections in May, one focusing on David Sylvian, the other a round up of 2025 highlights.
As is frequently the case with my discoveries, 'new' is subjective. Colombian born María Lucrecia Pérez López has been releasing music since 2005, initially as Lucrecia for two albums and an EP, then as Lucrecia Dalt from 2010, with several albums, soundtracks, EPs and collaborations under her belt in the last decade and a half.
A Danger To Ourselves is added to the discography, coming out in full on Friday (5th). Thirteen songs, opening with cosa rara, and featuring the other three singles/videos to date, no death no danger, caes and divina. There's a bonus dub version of caes on the digital version.
To these ears, finding a sweet spot somehwere between Bebel Gilberto, Laurie Anderson and David Sylvian's own work, I can appreciate why the latter was drawn to work with Lucrecia, not only providing spoken word vocals and "feedback guitar" on cosa rara, but also co-producing and mixing the entire album.
One for the curious and another addition to my Bandcamp Friday shopping bag.
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