Juana Molina announces first album in 8 years, shares “Siestas ahí”

Juana Molina has announced DOGA, her eighth album that’s also her first in eight years, which will be out November 5 via Sonamos. It was coproduced by Juana and Emilio Haro, with additional production by Mario Agustín de Jesús González.

DOGA was born out of the “improviset” shows she played in 2022, but some ideas reached back as far as 2019. “The idea was to play as if I were at home, that is, to improvise,” Juana says. “It was a duo mostly of analog synthesizers and sequencers. We recorded everything—so many hours—because there was no way to reproduce what we did; both rehearsals and shows were unique. Some of those ideas were later picked up again.”

“I would record a guitar and he’d tell me to record more—different sounds, different arrangements, different ideas,” Juana says of her process with Haro. “Then he would take the recordings and program things on his own; many of those elements ended up on the record. I like his overall sense of the songs, the aesthetic of the mixes. I’m more of a straightforward person; I don’t usually use post-recording effects, and I thought Emilio had great command for creating spaces around things.”

The first single from the album is “Siestas ahí,” a lovely piece of glitchy tropicalia. Listen to that and check out DOGA‘s artwork below.