bio
Molina is the Danish-Chilean producer and composer Rebecca Molina (b. 1992), based in Copenhagen. Her music flows from an interest in attention to contrasts: between the unintended and the controllable, the atmospheric and the pulsating.
Her debut album, When You Wake Up (2024, Escho), introduced a world of magic realism illustrated with fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal vocals, and contrasting digital and handplayed sounds. Her voice sang about family, history and shared roots and upbringing but in a surrealist light.
When You Wake Up situated Molina among a contemporary Copenhagen scene (ML Buch, Fine, Astrid Sonne, Clarissa Connelly) shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and experimentation.
Since then, Molina has continued to develop her approach to writing and production. Her recent work explores rhythmic and structural possibilities, blending handplayed acoustic recordings with programmed drum patterns. All the elements are often recorded live, transferred to samplers, and re-performed, allowing beats and textures to retain a honest sonic character, while taking on a more mechanical feel.
The forthcoming track, Golden Brown Sugar, bears witness to this shift, unfolding through chopped and reassembled percussive arrangements that blur the line between live performance and electronic manipulation. Molina subtly incorporates these percussive rhythms, weaving them into the track’s bending layers of guitars.
Molina will release Golden Brown Sugar through Escho ahead of her North American tour in March.
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“Molina is surgical in her approach: Like a nurse on the night shift, her music is always searching for a pulse.” - Pitchfork
“a cornerstone of contemporary experimental music” - Crack Magazine