Lucrecia Dalt + J Josephine | Brighton

Lucrecia Dalt Brighton

Lucrecia Dalt live in Brighton at CHALK on 10th May! Get tickets above, or from SeeTickets.

Born in Pereira, Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary music. Her trajectory from civil engineer to sound artist began while working at a geotechnical company in Medellín, where she discovered computer-based music production-a revelation that completely redirected her life and creative focus.

After her first recordings appeared through Colombian collective Series, Dalt contributed to Monika Enterprise’s 4 Women No Cry compilation in 2008, marking her entrance into the international music scene. Following moves from Medellín to Barcelona and finally to Berlin, her sound evolved through increasingly abstract territories. Her early solo albums Commotus (2012) and Syzygy (2013) released on Human Ear Music explored surrealist tendencies through electronic foundations, while Ou (2015) on Care of Editions further refined her experimental approach through intricate sound worlds.

With RVNG Intl., Dalt released a trilogy of works-Anticlines (2018), Noera sólida (2020), and ¡Ay! (2022)-each expanding her sonic palette and conceptual depth. ¡Ay! particularly connected with critics and listeners, earning recognition from The Wire magazine as album of the year and top ten inclusions in Pitchfork, New York Times, and NPR”s year’s best. During this period, Dalt also ventured into television film scoring, composing the original score for the HBO series The Baby (2022), and more recently the critically acclaimed On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) and forthcoming psychological horror The Rabbit Hole (2025), bringing her distinctive sound design to narrative contexts.

Now Dalt returns with A Danger to Ourselves, her most personal and sonically ambitious work to date. While her past albums explored character-based narratives and outer world entanglements, this thirteen-track collection turns decisively inward. The album grew from fragmentary notes Dalt scribbled during tours and the early days of a new relationship-intimate thoughts later transformed into musical compositions in January 2024.

Working closely with percussionist Alex Lázaro, Dalt built pieces that generate musicality through the interplay of bass lines, beats, andtextural details rather than conventional melodic structures. Songs like “divina” move fluidly between Spanish and English through elastic soundscapes and mesmerizing sound collage, while “hasta el final” takes a different approach with its more direct string arrangements.

Throughout the album, Dalt pushes beyond her earlier lo-fi approaches toward a newfound clarity where both voice and instrument emerge with greater presence and detail. A Danger to Ourselves features a rich collaborative cast, with David Sylvian joining as co-producer and guitarist on select tracks. Vocal contributions from Juana Molina, Camille Mandoki, and Eliana Joy appear throughout, while the instrumental landscape is shaped by Cyrus Campbell on upright and electric bass and Chris Jonas on saxophone.

The album title comes from Sylvian’s lyrics in “cosa rara,” reflecting themes of life’s fragility, love’s oscillations, and the desire for liberation from everyday patterns toward more meaningful inner experiences. Mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC, A Danger to Ourselves represents both a culmination of Dalt’s previous work and a new direction-a space where her sonic explorations converge into something intimate yet expansive, personal yet universally resonant. https://lucreciadalt.bandcamp.com/

+ “J. Josephine is a Brighton-based experimental musician crafting lush, compelling soundscapes with analogue drone and alto sax. Goblin-music to ensnare the goblin-minded.

“…atmospheric, droney and touching… This is what it must have felt like on the Titanic as it sank. You know danger is around you, but the music is transfixing” – Under the Radar Magazine”

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
07042026 – Bibi Club. The Prince Albert
17042026 – SUEP. Alphabet
20042026 – Lande Hekt. Prince Albert
22042026 – Oslo Twins. Prince Albert
25042026 – New German Cinema. Folklore Rooms
29042026 – Acid Mothers Temple. Hope & Ruin
01052026 – Love. Concorde 2
02052026 – House of All. Hope & Ruin
05052026 – Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. The Hope & Ruin
07052026 – LYR. Komedia
10052026 – Sean Rowe. Green Door Store
10052026 – Lucrecia Dalt. Chalk
19052026 – Charlie Parr. Green Door Store
02062026 – Real Farmer. The Prince Albert
02062026 – The Bug Club. Concorde 2
04072026 – My Precious Bunny. Revenge
24082026 – Weird Nightmare. Alphabet
10092026 – Ohtis. The Prince Albert
10102026 – A Certain Ratio. Lewes Constitutional Club
22102026 – Kristin Hersh. The Old Market
01112026 – Stu Larsen. The Prince Albert
13112026 – The Boo Radleys. Lewes Constitutional Club
25112026 – Ozric Tentacles. Lewes Constitutional Club
06022027 – Jim Moray. Komedia Brighton

Accessibility: Fully accessible venue, disabled toilet at the back. Ask bar for assistance. Entrance for wheelchairs at the back of the venue. Toilets gender neutral on some nights. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. Wheelchair area, and sofa at the side for seating, but depending on how many people are in it may affect the viewing.

Lucrecia Dalt Brighton

Lucrecia Dalt Brighton