Dana Sipos has shared “Strange to my Mind,” another taste of her forthcoming album Golden Molten, which arrives January 23, 2026. The track Follows singles “Star City”, “Soft Feeling”, and “Songs Of Longing.” Once again Sipos collaborated with producer Sandro Perri, Sipos and her 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. “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.”

“After periods of transformation, we are often unrecognizable to ourselves and we have to learn to see ourselves again,” says Sipos. “Sometimes close communities shift and fall apart and the world around us and at large is an utterly heartbreaking place. ‘Strange To My Mind’ is a meditation on the mysteries of being alive, that are sometimes humming quietly under the surface and sometimes a roar and a huge paradigm shift or life-altering course. I wanted to weave gratitude into this process of peering through the looking glass as a reminder to use this tool while sitting with uncertainty and change, to remember that the beauty and joy has to find a way to walk alongside the pain. I am also expressing gratitude for having music and song as a way of processing all of these complexities. Ultimately, I see this song as my reverence for the strangeness of life, for this holy and beautiful thing!”

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.

DANA SIPOS
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

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