"On July 7, 2025, Lucrecia Dalt's heart stopped. She had suffered a severe epileptic seizure, and eight seconds would pass before it resumed beating. The next day, the Colombian musician released " caes," the third single from her breathtaking new album A Danger to Ourselves -a song that suggests, she says, "that the sublime can be reached through surrendering to the act of falling." For two days after her near-death experience, she soared, so overwhelmed by the beauty of her surroundings that she wondered if she had actually died and was experiencing the afterlife. She hadn't, of course, and the world that wowed her was the same one she occupied before her heart had stopped. She had just surrendered to the fall."
"The path of Lucrecia Dalt's career over the past 20 years has been serpentine, growing from electronic-tinged synth pop into various sonic abstractions, embodying beasts, spirits, and the earth itself before reimagining the boleros of her youth through the lens of science fiction. Each experiment felt distinct, yet they all shared a similar detachment; building her records around fantastical characters and surrealistic concepts, she maintained a semblance of distance between her art and her personal life. Her latest work obliterates that gap."
Lucrecia Dalt experienced a severe epileptic seizure on July 7, 2025, during which her heart stopped for eight seconds before restarting. In the immediate aftermath she felt a transcendent, afterlife-like exhilaration and a surrender to falling. The single "caes," a duet with Camille Mandoki, draws on imagery from Ana Mendieta and Evelyn McHale and connects fatal falls to artistic representation. After years of distant, character-driven experiments across electronic, abstract, and genre-reimagining work, Dalt relocated to New Mexico, fell in love, and made A Danger to Ourselves more personally immediate. Most of the album was written and recorded in New Mexico.
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