Juana Molina is an former television actress from Argentina with an unlikely passion for making a kind of cut and paste folk-tinged electronica (look, I managed to do that without saying ‘folktronica’). Molina’s latest album for Domino comprises eight lengthy, carefully assembled pieces with a focus on layered grooves: tightly coiled constructions of looped acoustic guitar, vocal cooing and harmonies, chimes, drones and occasionally the kitchen sink. After the rollicking, revelrous opening title track, Un Dia is sometimes sunny, sometimes sultry and occasionally bleakly nocturnal. Molina’s lo-fi collages are not always immediately arresting, building and subsiding with an unhurried lightness of touch. The likes of ‘Quien? (Suite)’ wake up as gently as a spring morning, dreamy vocal splices interlocking and dovetailing over a persistent almost-house bassline. By contrast ‘Lo Dejamos’ and ‘Los Hongos De Marosa’ are oblique, all murmers and shadowy bass squelches. Continue Reading