Subbacultcha presents: Molina and userband

Molina, Danish-Chilean producer and composer, and between Marseille and New York based Userband will perform at Cinetol on February 9th.

Molina’s music flows from an interest in combining digital, sample-based production with organic, hand-played instrumentation. Her compositions create wide and woozy landscapes: a pixelating sunset coming in and out of focus and Guitars that blur the lines with jagged textures and splattered muck.

“When You Wake Up” (label: Escho), the debut full-length from Molina, is a record of presence—a collage of time spent slowing down and being attuned to life’s cycles and changes. “It’s a record where I focused on the accidental and immediate,” Molina shares, letting these qualities “become the center of the songs.” Molina pushed herself to try playing instruments with which she had less experience to capture a sense of unpolishedness and spontaneity in the recordings. “I hoped that would create some immediate and unintended material that I had no control over,” she says, “which, for me, is being present.”

In this way, Molina’s music welcomes listeners to a surrealist universe of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal vocals, and layered samples.

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

Additionally, upcoming band USERBAND will join the bill:

“Userband is geographically based between Marseille, France and New York City; their new song “I Lose My Time” is sonically situated between atmospheric indie rock and something altogether more cutting. Oi! You got some Weezer in my Stereolab! You know what I mean? If you don’t, let me break it down for you: This tune is heavy guitar pop supreme. Nina should start doing “Cage Match” style throwdowns between two indie rock songs, the way they used to do it on alternative radio back in the day. I think “I Lose My Time” might come up number one in a dust up with most competitors. It’s got that sticky thing that you get when you listen to your favorite Smashing Pumpkins tune, updated for a 2025 guitar language reality. It is tempting to call this song an alternative rock anthem.” (Nina Protocol)