10.09.25
Lucrecia Dalt’s A Danger to Ourselves has been rated as Best New Music on Pitchfork. The album was co-produced by David with its cover portrait shot by Yuka Fujii.
Pitchfork write: ‘Sylvian co-produced the record with Dalt, and his influence is pervasive, if subtle. “The relationship was being born during that time with someone that is also very sensitive to what it is to let yourself go in the sound, in the feeling, and allow it to be,” she told interviewer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd in a public listening event at New York’s Public Records. Parts of the album are of a piece with Sylvian’s ambient albums, such as 2003’s Blemish, with a yearning croon that inhabits the center of a dissonant maelstrom. He helped her refine both details and dynamics as she spent days recording vocal takes with precise intention. It’s his verse on “cosa rara” that gives the album its title: “We are out of favor/A danger to ourselves/It’s not amphetamines, it’s something else.”’
A Danger to Ourselves is out now.
New York Times feature [paywalled].
