DANA SIPOS’ NEW ALBUM, GOLDEN MOLTEN, OUT JANUARY 23, 2026
TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK - FULL DATES BELOW
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Acclaimed Canadian musician Dana Sipos is known for songwriting that is both intimate and otherworldly, creating spellbinding atmospheres for listeners to lose themselves in. Celebrated for songs that hold the complexity of the human experience up to the light, Sipos' anticipated new album is her most personal and luminous work to date. Exploring themes of impermanence and the pressurized process of metamorphosis, the 9 songs on Golden Molten stay grounded in the poetic introspection reminiscent of Dana’s albums and include experimental textures, stacked vocal harmonies and 70s inspired groove. It is a family of songs that feels both immediate and timeless.
Having already shared previous singles “Star City” and “Soft Feeling”, today Sipos is sharing album track “Songs Of Longing” which arrives with a video filmed at the Port Alberni Fair in small town Vancouver Island, BC. “Songs of Longing” flickers on those fleeting midway moments of connection that live at the intersection of the magic and melancholy, past, present and future. “Reflecting on the seeming endlessness of yearning for kinship, this song asks how many songs will we sing about the longing and contemplates the various ways we tend to this experience; in community, in solitude, with care and ritual, the different faces and shapes of this longing,” says Sipos. “Songs of Longing” lingers in the universal threads and timeless spaces between desire and memory.
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MORE ABOUT GOLDEN MOLTEN
The album was forged through long seasons of transformation. In the post-Covid years leading up to its creation, Sipos navigated a cancer diagnosis and treatment, the death of her step-father, love followed by the long tail of heartbreak, the formation and eventual fracturing of a close circle and the recalibration of life’s dreams. Each song’s beginning carried its own endings over the course of their writing, while the sands of each trial shifted underfoot with life’s strange and constant movement. As a result, these songs carry traces of the living memory of their unfolding with, as always, a nod towards the cosmic.
Once again teaming up with contemporary producer Sandro Perri, Sipos and her talented studio band decamped to Union Sound in Toronto for a marathon one day rehearsal, two day recording session. Tracked mostly live off the floor, the compressed time frame built an intensity in the room that supported a real collaborative effort. Dana and the band responded to each other instinctively, the trust built up over their years of creating albums together, and didn’t overthink choices. Sipos’ evocative voice and vivid lyricism are supported by the band with sometimes spacious, often textural and always deliberate arrangements steered by the light touch of Perri's brilliant guidance. "We were short on time due to some extenuating recording circumstances, one after another. The studio can often be a bit vulnerable but the timing element added an emotional intensity to the experience, at least for me, that I think ultimately charged up the songs" reflects Sipos. "There were some very fun moments of course and those "studio magic moments," but it was unexpectedly emotional as well." As a result, the songs that make up Golden Molten are fully present are unguarded.
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Golden Molten confirms Sipos as a singular presence in contemporary folk music—a deeply reflective artist attuned to both the fragility and resilience of the human experience. Writing that honours time and her travellers, and holds in her hands the many faces of loss and change. This is not a record rushed into the world, but with its slow burn and soft glow, Golden Molten reminds us that transformations are rarely instantaneous—but slowly shaped by the heat of life until they take on a new shape.
Recently, on CBC Q, Sipos and guest host Garvia Bailey discussed previous single “Soft Feeling” and more, listen to their conversation HERE.
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TOUR DATES
Oct 18 - Ottawa, ON - Folk Canada Conference
Oct 20 - Victoria, BC - Vic Theatre, Jewish Film Festival
Nov 5-7 - Cumberland, BC - Woodstove Festival
Nov 27 - Gothenburg, SE - Gathenhielmska Huset
Nov 29 - Gothenburg, SE - Utopia Jazz, Viva Sounds
GOLDEN MOLTEN TRACKLIST
01 Star City
02 Gemstone
03 Soft Feeling
04 Moondance
05 Songs of Longing
06 Hour and the Glass
07 Passing Clouds
08 Strange to my Mind
09 Blooming Heather
