{"id":3600695,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3600695/?format=json","airdate":"2026-01-05T19:49:10-08:00","show":65574,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65574/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"la paradoja","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Juana Molina","artist_ids":["eca5dd0e-edc7-4658-85f0-762e263b4acd"],"album":"DOGA","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":null,"rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Juana Molina’s “la paradoja” arrives on DOGA, her 2025 record released via her label Sonamos, and it functions as a thesis statement for the record’s method: music that holds contradictions in the same hand. The track runs 5:51 on the album’s sequence, and its title points to the lyrical and emotional logic you can expect—states that can be indolent and intense, soft and altive, honest and cunning, sometimes within a single breath. Molina is widely known for building songs through layered loops of acoustic and electronic elements, and her work has leaned into analog experimentation and home-studio detail. On DOGA, credits and reporting around the project note Molina’s hands-on production and mixing, alongside collaborator Emilio Haro. Taken in that context, “la paradoja” plays like a small self-contained theatre: language that turns, doubles back, and refuses a single moral. For listening, focus on the way her phrasing treats each adjective like an object you can rotate; the repetition is less chorus than examination. The song is also a reminder that “paradox” is not confusion—it is precision about complexity. If you come to Molina for melody, stay for the craft: she turns minimal materials into an atmosphere that feels lived-in, intimate, and uncanny.\u2028Listen: https://juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/doga","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}