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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

  • Summary: The latest full-length release for Berlin-based artist Lucrecia Dalt is a concept album about an alien named Preta and features music styles she grew up with in Colombia.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Oct 13, 2022
    86
    The music is poignant and meticulously arranged, and all you have to do is surrender to it. It helps that the engineering of ¡Ay! is pristine, often evoking a smoky, afterhours lounge, the kind you might find in a spy film from the 1940s. At times, it is so vivid and immersive that it feels as if Dalt is singing directly in your ear.
  2. Uncut
    Oct 13, 2022
    80
    You can choose to interact with this theme [an alien visiting Earth] or let it drift to the background, instead sinking into ¡Ay!'s gently shifting moods of innocence, curiosity and delight. [Nov 2022, p.28]
  3. The Wire
    Oct 13, 2022
    80
    It’s the confidence and clarity of Dalt’s vision that makes this album a charming, compelling listen. In its best moments, it’s strange and familiar at once, like a weird, beautiful dream. [Nov 2022, p.59]
  4. Oct 18, 2022
    80
    ¡Ay! tugs the music and language of Colombia out of its natural space, allowing Dalt to beckon traditions across oceans and, along the way, provide established melodies and rhythms new spaces to inhabit.
  5. Mojo
    Dec 19, 2022
    80
    Songs decay, disappear, swell, mutate, Dalt's seductive, lonesome voice investing them with a sinuous, alien romanticism. [Feb 2023, p.87]
  6. Oct 13, 2022
    70
    With ¡Ay!, Dalt succeeds at constructing and exploring an elaborate sound world that resembles a surreal reflection of her past.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Oct 14, 2022
    10
    Cet album est conceptuel et expérimental sans jamais abandonner l’auditeur. Ça reste toujours beau, surprenant et innovant. Un des meilleursCet album est conceptuel et expérimental sans jamais abandonner l’auditeur. Ça reste toujours beau, surprenant et innovant. Un des meilleurs de Lucrecia Dalt. Expand