#anticlines

Subterranean? Microscopic? Extra-terrestrial? Lucrecia Dalt’s Anticlines is a strange but entirely captivating and thoroughly skilled exhibition of low-end sound design. With her pattering, magnetic percussion, sunken and rich pits of ambience and curiously seductive spoken word bits, Dalt crafts something technically ungraspable and head-scratching in its purpose but appealing none the same.

We had touched

This is an album that gets under your skin from the very start. It is an arresting, and at times almost uncomfortable exploration into sounds, structures and terrain, narrated and guided by Lucrecia Dalt. Dalt is a sound artist and experimentalist based in Berlin, who was born in Colombia and previously resided in Barcelona. The name of the album comes from Dalt’s previous work in geotechnical engineering; an anticline is an arch-shaped rock form that is made of stratified rock of different ages. Disconcerting in the best possible way, Anticlines melds spoken words, abstract melodies and cold electronic sounds. It should be listened to when you want to think and be challenged. Best enjoyed as a full LP, although some tracks still stick out. Atmospheres Touch is a beguiling melodic effort and Axis Excess makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up with its odd sounds and feelings. This is not background music!

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