Molina

Danish-Chilean producer and composer Molina makes music that flows from an interest in combining digital, sample-based production with organic, hand-played instrumentation. Her compositions create wide and dizzying landscapes: a pixelating sunset that comes in and out of focus and guitars that blur the lines with angular textures and splattered mush.

"When You Wake Up" (label: Escho), Molina's debut album, is a record of presence — a collage of time spent slowing down and attuning to the cycles and changes of life. "It is a record on which I focused on the accidental and immediate," Molina shares, making these qualities "the center of the songs." Molina challenged herself to play instruments she had less experience with, in order to capture a sense of imperfection and spontaneity in the recordings. "I hoped that this would create material that was direct and unintended which I had no control over," she says, "which for me means: being present."

In this way, Molina's music welcomes listeners into a surreal universe of distorted guitars, ethereal vocals and layered samples.

Live she performs both in a duo and trio setup with Collider guitarist Troels Damgaard-Christensen on guitar and drummer Benedicte Pierleoni of Baby In Vain.

Support act

Userband

"Userband is geographically based between Marseille, France and New York City; their new song "I Lose My Time" is sonically somewhere between atmospheric indie rock and something that is totally more cutting. Oi! You put some Weezer in my Stereolab! Do you get what I mean? If you don't get it, let me lay it out for you: this song is heavy guitar pop at its best. Nina should do 'Cage Match'-like confrontations between two indie rock songs, like she used to do on alternative radio. I think "I Lose My Time" would come out number one in a fight with most competitors. It has that stickiness you get when you listen to your favorite Smashing Pumpkins song, but updated for a 2025 guitar-language reality. It's tempting to call this song an alternative-rock anthem.'"