The Quietus - A new rock music and pop culture website

Baker's Dozen

Impossible Syllables: Lucrecia Dalt’s Favourite Albums
Matthew Neale , September 2nd, 2020 08:21

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Lucrecia Dalt speaks to Matthew Neale about her love of jazz, crafting an alter-ego for her new record, and the delimiting forces of language

B__1598620858_resize_460x400

Robert Turman – Flux
I found this record when I was still living in Barcelona, nine or ten years ago I guess, and it was a revelation. It was the first time I felt something that felt repetitive at first listen – but as you listen to it more and more, you start to discover the complexities within those layers. I was playing this record to a friend recently, and I discovered new elements in it again. We lay down and listened to it through a speaker, and I thought, ‘Damn, I’d never heard this frequency before, and I’ve been listening to this record for ten years!’ And that really surprised me – how wonderful this record is, how wonderful and complex it is. It’s something I long to achieve, those melodies repeating and transforming and you never get tired of it, you just flow in there for the duration.