Lucrecia Dalt channels innate sensory echoes of growing up in Colombia on her new album Ay!, where traditional instrumentation encounters adventurous impulse and sci-fi meditations on temporality in an exclamation of liminal delight.

Dalts introspective approach to composition, last surfaced on her entrancing 2020 album No era slida, refracts across Ay! in a subconscious spectrum of the music genres she absorbed as a child. Treasured sounds and syncopations of bolero, mambo, salsa, and merengue rooted in Dalts early surroundings awaken on Ay! and give glow to the albums contours. The intuitive melodic structures of this music, processed by memory and modular synths, led Dalt to a mirage of her creative origins and the album she has always wanted to make.