We’ve been following Molina since the very beginning, and it’s been a joy to watch her world unfold. The Danish-Chilean producer and composer, born in 1992 and based in Copenhagen, has always had a gift for balancing opposites: the organic and the synthetic, the dreamy and the rhythmic, the spontaneous and the carefully shaped. Her 2024 debut album When You Wake Up (out via the amazing Danish label Escho) introduced a kind of magic realism built from hazy guitars, soft-focus vocals, and a tactile mix of digital production and hand-played instrumentation. It was intimate and slightly surreal, touching on family, roots, and memory while sounding like it drifted in from somewhere just beyond reach. Since then, Molina has kept refining her craft, pushing deeper into rhythm and structure, recording live elements, feeding them into samplers, and re-performing them so they feel both human and slightly mechanical at once.
With her brand new offering “Golden Brown Sugar,” that evolution becomes even clearer. Her sound softly pivots toward shoegaze, with bending, layered guitars washing over chopped and reassembled percussion. The rhythms feel playful and off-kilter, blurring the line between live drums and electronic manipulation, while the guitars glow and hum in thick, immersive waves. There’s also something crepuscular about it, like warm air, cicadas in the distance, and metallic chimes catching the light. About the track, Molina shares: “I just really love to record and chop up any odd percussion or drum instrument – and make it cross over with me into a bended and layered guitar-world.” Released through Escho ahead of her North American tour in March, “Golden Brown Sugar” feels like a subtle but confident shift — expanding her sonic palette without losing the intimacy that’s defined her from day one. Watch the Stephanie Staal-directed video below.
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