Lucrecia Dalt – caes (ft. camille mandoki)

On ‘caes’, Lucrecia Dalt turns giving up into sound creation, where the act of dropping becomes a way to access something greater. Dalt’s vocals come at the listeners with genuine, unfiltered intensity, and Mandoki’s deep, steady chorus slices through swirling dissonance.

The song’s lyrical structure examines the memory of life through the lens of pain, with Dalt mentioning people like Ana Mendieta and Evelyn McHale as examples. This is not just pretty looking back but real emotional digging, using past importance to uncover present sensitivity.

From the forthcoming ‘A Danger to Ourselves’, ‘caes’ marks Dalt’s turn away from stories as a way of writing and towards unflinching emotional truth.

The outcome strips away any disguises to reveal something fundamental about the complex nature of human bonds. In Dalt’s view, giving up is not losing but changing, which allows entry into feelings spaces that safer methods do not provide.