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DOGA is the eighth album from Buenos Aires musician Juana Molina, and her first set of new songs since Halo in 2017. The album blends acoustic guitar picking, layered vocals and analogue synthesisers, creating a fusion of experimental pop, folk and ambient. Tracks grew from 30 hours of improvisations with keyboardist Odín Schwartz, material that sat untouched until Molina shaped it into minimalist, loop-based arrangements during ten days at Sonorámica Studio in Córdoba.

Over these soundscapes, Molina breaks down language, emotion, and meaning. 'Uno es árbol' opens with the grammatically impossible phrase "one is tree," followed by invented words like 'desarbol' (un-tree). On 'siestas ahí' she balances real lyrics with made up sounds. Molina describes the recording process as moments where thought disappears and instruments take control, a sensation she traces back to childhood when she would sing against lift machinery in her grandmother's building, discovering drones through mechanical noise. After years of creative paralysis, DOGA captures that same playful sense of exploration.