Following in the footsteps of her college classmates Astrid Sonne, Clarissa Connelly, Erika de Casier and ML Buch, Danish-Chilean artist Rebecca Molina eyes pop thru an experimental lens on her debut album, intermingling MBV-style shoegaze with jerky, distorted trip-hop and sublime ambience.
There's definitely something in the water right now in Denmark. Molina's debut album, written while she was pregnant, is familiar, but not because it sounds like her peers' output, exactly. It's her fusion of half-remembered pop ingredients - Kevin Shields' tape-warped guitar wails, Sol Seppy's baroque, romantic delivery - and contemporary production touches that sounds like all the things you know and love in sparkly new packaging. And while there's nothing particularly fresh about the blend itself, Molina's experimental approach gives the songs a unique pulse that's hard to ignore. The songwriting itself is tight - check the barrage of radio-ready hooks on the powdery 'Scorpio' - and Molina's canny collage of almost-too-much distortion, synths and vanishing field recordings captures the spirit of early shoegaze without trying to create a facsimile.
'When you wake up' is most gripping when Molina takes the training wheels off entirely, veering into surreal slacker rock on 'A New Day' and euphoric grunge on 'Neverland'. And when ML Buch shows up on the finale, 'Organs', it's just the icing on the cake.
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Following in the footsteps of her college classmates Astrid Sonne, Clarissa Connelly, Erika de Casier and ML Buch, Danish-Chilean artist Rebecca Molina eyes pop thru an experimental lens on her debut album, intermingling MBV-style shoegaze with jerky, distorted trip-hop and sublime ambience.
There's definitely something in the water right now in Denmark. Molina's debut album, written while she was pregnant, is familiar, but not because it sounds like her peers' output, exactly. It's her fusion of half-remembered pop ingredients - Kevin Shields' tape-warped guitar wails, Sol Seppy's baroque, romantic delivery - and contemporary production touches that sounds like all the things you know and love in sparkly new packaging. And while there's nothing particularly fresh about the blend itself, Molina's experimental approach gives the songs a unique pulse that's hard to ignore. The songwriting itself is tight - check the barrage of radio-ready hooks on the powdery 'Scorpio' - and Molina's canny collage of almost-too-much distortion, synths and vanishing field recordings captures the spirit of early shoegaze without trying to create a facsimile.
'When you wake up' is most gripping when Molina takes the training wheels off entirely, veering into surreal slacker rock on 'A New Day' and euphoric grunge on 'Neverland'. And when ML Buch shows up on the finale, 'Organs', it's just the icing on the cake.
Following in the footsteps of her college classmates Astrid Sonne, Clarissa Connelly, Erika de Casier and ML Buch, Danish-Chilean artist Rebecca Molina eyes pop thru an experimental lens on her debut album, intermingling MBV-style shoegaze with jerky, distorted trip-hop and sublime ambience.
There's definitely something in the water right now in Denmark. Molina's debut album, written while she was pregnant, is familiar, but not because it sounds like her peers' output, exactly. It's her fusion of half-remembered pop ingredients - Kevin Shields' tape-warped guitar wails, Sol Seppy's baroque, romantic delivery - and contemporary production touches that sounds like all the things you know and love in sparkly new packaging. And while there's nothing particularly fresh about the blend itself, Molina's experimental approach gives the songs a unique pulse that's hard to ignore. The songwriting itself is tight - check the barrage of radio-ready hooks on the powdery 'Scorpio' - and Molina's canny collage of almost-too-much distortion, synths and vanishing field recordings captures the spirit of early shoegaze without trying to create a facsimile.
'When you wake up' is most gripping when Molina takes the training wheels off entirely, veering into surreal slacker rock on 'A New Day' and euphoric grunge on 'Neverland'. And when ML Buch shows up on the finale, 'Organs', it's just the icing on the cake.
Following in the footsteps of her college classmates Astrid Sonne, Clarissa Connelly, Erika de Casier and ML Buch, Danish-Chilean artist Rebecca Molina eyes pop thru an experimental lens on her debut album, intermingling MBV-style shoegaze with jerky, distorted trip-hop and sublime ambience.
There's definitely something in the water right now in Denmark. Molina's debut album, written while she was pregnant, is familiar, but not because it sounds like her peers' output, exactly. It's her fusion of half-remembered pop ingredients - Kevin Shields' tape-warped guitar wails, Sol Seppy's baroque, romantic delivery - and contemporary production touches that sounds like all the things you know and love in sparkly new packaging. And while there's nothing particularly fresh about the blend itself, Molina's experimental approach gives the songs a unique pulse that's hard to ignore. The songwriting itself is tight - check the barrage of radio-ready hooks on the powdery 'Scorpio' - and Molina's canny collage of almost-too-much distortion, synths and vanishing field recordings captures the spirit of early shoegaze without trying to create a facsimile.
'When you wake up' is most gripping when Molina takes the training wheels off entirely, veering into surreal slacker rock on 'A New Day' and euphoric grunge on 'Neverland'. And when ML Buch shows up on the finale, 'Organs', it's just the icing on the cake.
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Following in the footsteps of her college classmates Astrid Sonne, Clarissa Connelly, Erika de Casier and ML Buch, Danish-Chilean artist Rebecca Molina eyes pop thru an experimental lens on her debut album, intermingling MBV-style shoegaze with jerky, distorted trip-hop and sublime ambience.
There's definitely something in the water right now in Denmark. Molina's debut album, written while she was pregnant, is familiar, but not because it sounds like her peers' output, exactly. It's her fusion of half-remembered pop ingredients - Kevin Shields' tape-warped guitar wails, Sol Seppy's baroque, romantic delivery - and contemporary production touches that sounds like all the things you know and love in sparkly new packaging. And while there's nothing particularly fresh about the blend itself, Molina's experimental approach gives the songs a unique pulse that's hard to ignore. The songwriting itself is tight - check the barrage of radio-ready hooks on the powdery 'Scorpio' - and Molina's canny collage of almost-too-much distortion, synths and vanishing field recordings captures the spirit of early shoegaze without trying to create a facsimile.
'When you wake up' is most gripping when Molina takes the training wheels off entirely, veering into surreal slacker rock on 'A New Day' and euphoric grunge on 'Neverland'. And when ML Buch shows up on the finale, 'Organs', it's just the icing on the cake.