When You Wake Up
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| 📅 Released | October 11, 2024 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 30:28 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Escho | |||
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When You Wake Up is the first studio album of 32-year-old singer, songwriter and drummer Molina. The album was released officially on October 11, 2024, and distributed by Escho. Molina plays the drum, pan flute, keyboard and guitar in some tracks. Most songs were written by her during pregnancy, which is the period she also went on a break (2022–2023). The album talks about nature, her family, and focusing on the immediate and simplicity.[1]
Background
The album was slowly written and composed between 2022 and 2023, the period Molina was on a "break". In that period she was also pregnant, which ended up influencing a lot of the songs, along with themes about nature, childhood, motherhood and her Chilean heritage. Molina wanted to focus more on using the guitar and making Shoegaze, like some of her favorite artists did, such as Cocteau Twins; she also plays the pan flute, keyboards and drum in some tracks. Her friends helped her make the album throughout, but specially ML Buch, Erika de Casier, Fine Glindvad and Astrid Sonne — some of her friends at the Rhythm Music Conservatory.[2][3][4][5]
Track listing
All tracks written by Molina (singer).
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Navel" | 4:26 |
| 2. | "Scorpio" | 3:07 |
| 3. | "I Am Your House" | 4:27 |
| 4. | "The Road From Here" | 1:35 |
| 5. | "A New Day (feat. GB)" | 3:29 |
| 6. | "Homesick" | 0:17 |
| 7. | "Flowers" | 2:05 |
| 8. | "Neverland" | 3:12 |
| 9. | "The Valleys of Tomé" | 3:08 |
| 10. | "Organs (feat. ML Buch)" | 4:48 |
| Total length: | 30:28 | |
Critical Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 7.6/10 [6] |
Emma Maddson, the reviewer, says: "Blending bodily rhythms and shoegazing abstraction, the Danish Chilean composer and singer’s debut constructs a subtle play of perception and ambiguity.", "Like the best shoegaze records, When you wake up plays with listeners’ perceptions, specifically the ability to detect underlying rhythms for ourselves. It's most clear on the Buch collaboration “Organs,” which sounds like it's timed to a million different metronomes. If a doctor were to scan the brain playing it, the MRI would bloom with color. Finding the pulse on When you wake up requires tuning the attention and locating a sense of time through our own psychobiological rhythms: a new kind of presentness that disturbs everything around it, turning the familiar surreal." and "Her approach to guitar, and to songwriting in general on When you wake up, borrows from shoegaze. Each song is a wide and woozy landscape: “A New Day” a pixelating sunset coming in and out of focus, “I Am Your House” a Mica Levi-like city garden. It is as disarmingly romantic as any shoegaze record, and just as impressionistic.". The album got a 7.6/10 score on Pitchfork. The album got talked about well in The Fader and Stereogum.[7][8]
Album Credits
Vocals - Molina, ML Buch, Gustav Berntsen Producers - Molina, Gustav Berntsen Arrangers - Molina, Gustav Berntsen Composers - Molina, Gustav Berntsen, ML Buch Lyricists - Molina, Gustav Berntsen Music Videos - Molina, Erika de Casier
References
- ↑ Glow, Tone (2024-10-11). "Tone Glow 165: Molina". Tone Glow. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ↑ Glow, Tone (2024-10-11). "Tone Glow 165: Molina". Tone Glow. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ↑ "Molina & ML Buch Share New Single "Organs": Listen". Stereogum. 2024-08-21. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ↑ "Molina loves music so much she stopped releasing it". The FADER. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ↑ Madden, Emma. "Molina: When you wake up". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ↑ "Molina: When you wake up". Pitchfork.
- ↑ Madden, Emma. "Molina: When you wake up". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ↑ "Molina loves music so much she stopped releasing it". The FADER. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
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