Shapeshifting Colombian composer Lucrecia Dalt moves away from abstraction on her 2025 album, A Danger to Ourselves. Musically, the songs are urgent, sounding like tough metals being hammered into more malleable shapes. The interplay between these industrial arrangements and the organic—handclaps, vocal lines, and stark piano notes—gives the album its tension, a duel that Dalt oversees with the deftness and attention to detail of an orchestral conductor. She sings in Spanish of love and heartbreak, crafting lyrics like an abstract poet as much as a songwriter. On “hasta el final,” she holds her partner with her gaze, while on “stelliformia” she sings of golden bones and eyes filled with soil. Throughout, Dalt is joined by a few key collaborators, including David Sylvian, who plays on the album and co-produced it, in addition to Juana Molina and Camille Mandoki. This intimate cadre gives the collection a specificity and sonic language that continues Dalt’s tradition of boundary-pushing pop-adjacent experimental music, while moving her sound into further undiscovered lands.