rebbemolina’s debut album, When You Wake Up, out October 18, was almost scrapped before it was finished. After emerging with two EPs, 2017’s Corpus and 2020’s Vanilla Shell, the 32-year-old Danish musician found herself in a funk; she felt the electronic pop songs she was making weren’t reflective of who she really wanted to be as an artist. Awkwardly, around the same time, “Hey Kids,” a song she’d recorded while drifting away from any feeling of purpose, started going viral, gaining millions of streams on Spotify. It was the friends she knew from college — astridsonne_, Fine, and clarissa.connelly — plus mlbuch_ with whom Molina performs live, that ultimately encouraged her to pursue something that felt more honest and true. Like those friends and collaborators currently making the Danish city such an essential hub for new music, Molina’s songs now take an experimental approach to the traditional singer-songwriter framework, blurring the lines with jagged textures and ghostly vocals...