Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidalīad Bunny’s appeal is as mythical as it is rare: The world’s biggest pop star-a musically inventive, charismatic critic who loves his island-releases the biggest pop album of the year, one that flawlessly effuses the sound and nostalgia of a beach day in the Caribbean. As her extraterrestrial character experiences love and temporality for the first time throughout the album, Dalt reopens the listener’s eyes and ears as well, welcoming the limitless possibilities of our next selves. “I bring you the view from nowhen.”Īt 41, Dalt has spent more than a decade on the fringes of electronic and experimental music, and ¡Ay! retains that outré streak even as it flirts with more approachable styles-its twilit mood evokes the prospect of latter-day Kate Bush taking the stage at Twin Peaks’ shadowy Roadhouse bar. The grounding sounds of clarinets, upright bass, and Dalt’s sensuous voice are juxtaposed with lyrics straight out of a jargony Star Trek adventure: “Tearing through my glandular data gates,” she sings in Spanish. It combines Dalt’s woozy takes on the music of her childhood-bolero, salsa, merengue, mambo-with an ambient sci-fi concept involving an alien entity whose body is made up of leftover flecks of skin accumulated within the earth’s hydrosphere. Colombian shapeshifter Lucrecia Dalt reminds us of our capacity to change on ¡Ay!, an album that warps time and tradition. So even when our brains tell us we couldn’t be more stagnant, on a molecular level, we’re still in a constant state of renewal. Human beings shed about 500 million skin cells every single day.
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