Melt, my first album as Not for Radio, will be all yours in its entirety — all 10 songs, on 10/10! My intention with this project — was to make music for the love of experimenting; far from home, fully in the moment, open to whatever stream of consciousness unfolded around us. And that’s exactly what we did in the snowy woods; tucked away, as ice melted beneath our feet — and as we melted into the songs. What grew from the melted ice is this album, says Puerto Rican vocalist María Zardoya (pictured) — fain sharing the matter-of-fact auditory elasticity of the indispensable itinerary of her a la mode arpeggio arsenal.
As the sun nudges the earth, a lulu as well as blood-and-guts — predominantly dressed in black punk-derived subculture — cradling drive; picks the ambiances behind the sketch out, that would anthropomorphise a blue-blooded moniker — marking a bold new chapter for the front woman of revered American Indie-Pop band: The Marías.
All ten anthems reflecting the alchemy of grief, solitude, as well as creative communion that defined the hit oeuvre’s creation; spiralling through the 4th century — a Goth is referred to as an affiliate of the East Germanic people, famous for their foray of the Western Roman Empire as well as subsequent founding of heir states in Italy and Spain, for the duration of late Antiquity.
So, as a Germanic language, Gothic is a sliver of the Indo-European language kinfolk, of which, albeit, Visigoths converted from Arianism to Nicene Christianity back in 589; doggedly undertaking gears — Friday, October 10, of the 2025 time period: would eye-witness an “of Gothic naïveté” unsoiled sweat of chord — dubbed ‘Melt’ — get hold of shrewdness at ample sunshine!
Not only does attestation purport that a language known as Crimean Gothic survived in off the beaten track mountain regions in Crimea — as late as the second half of the 18th century, in the same way, very few medieval secondary sources make reference to the Gothic language after about 800; but to cheekily note that, these steeple pursuits of early inventory, are oddly not the piping hot issue — goes without a say!
Zealously construed, in De incrementis ecclesiae Christianae (840-842), Walafrid Strabo — a Frankish monk who lived in Swabia — writes of a cluster of monks, who testified that even then certain inhabits in Scythia (Dobruja), chiefly around Tomis, spoke a sermo Theotiscus (‘Germanic language’); the language of the Gothic translation of the Bible, and that they used such a liturgy. Then again, this ginormous orthodox crusade is not the scorching issue. Yet, like an off the beaten path Anglo-Saxon deity, sinking a new world order; penetratingly using Not for Radio as a sobriquet — is where Zardoya’s gist rests!
Slip, Water on Your Nose, Vueltas, Magnet, as well as Not the Only One — are therewith, birdcalls that provide a fresh patois to claps, high hats and filters on Melt; the last alluded to singer’s up-to-the-minute work of berceuse.
The spiny synchronisation blast offering was recorded last January — by American loops godheads: songwriter, instrumentalist as well as producer Sam Evian, and record producer, composer, musician as well as instrumentalist Gianluca Buccellati, also known as Luca in addition to Bien et Toi; at Flying Cloud Recordings — in Upstate New York. The blues grind unfolded in real time, as the lullaby doyens unplugged from the outside world; thereupon, wittingly dunking themselves in nature and melody.
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From that grew a drudgery of euphony — filled with intimate as well as psychedelic folk songs — that embody love’s decay reborn into sonic. Zardoya began teasing her “Puerto Rico dialled Not for Radio ‘potpourri’ ringing The Marías' spick-and-span cadences tour de force — on social media last August; following an American photo as well as video sharing social networking service — Instagram — live stream, with a sequence of cryptic messages plummeting on streaming platforms, under the last cited alias.
Knowing with cast-iron certainty, The Marías continues its ascent; following the ensemble — known for performing tunes in both English and Spanish’s 2024 breakthrough lilt composition titled Submarine, which reached position 17 on the Billboard 200. The last revealed ditty lustrous vibe — delivered this well-stacked group from Los Angeles’ first Hot 100 single, so-called — No One Noticed.
Besides lead vocalist María Zardoya, the likes of Los Angeles-born multi-instrumentalist, drummer, Disc Jockey as well as producer Josh Conway, Edward James a keyboardist, and guitarist Jesse Perlman: make up the core line-up of the — American Music Awards (2025), Grammy Awards (2022/2023) as well as 2025 MTV Video Music Awards — multi-nominated band; that infuses its tonal pattern with jazz percussion, guitar riffs, and horn solos.
The Marías, which has given a free rein to two EPs (extended plays): Superclean Vol. I. (2017) as well as Superclean Vol. II. (2018), and two studio consonance aria sculpts — Cinema counted in; has toured with Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, an American singer-librettist as well as musician.
Having opened for Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, an American vocalist-songsmith and actress, using Halsey as a soubriquet — on her “Love and Power Tour”; the ensemble joined forces with Puerto Rican Hip-Hop knocker as well as record producer: Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, famed by the alias Bad Bunny — on the donut Otro Atardecer, from his opus “power piece” so-called Un Verano Sin Ti.
Above and beyond, a tag team with Puerto Rican tempo geniuses: Tainy a record producer, composer as well as record engineer, known off-stage as Marco Efrain Masis Fernandez, as well as Maria Victoria Ramirez de Arellano Cardona, a footballer-cum-rapper and vocalist-lyricist, known on-stage as Young Miko — on the number Mañana — taking the lion’s share on the former’s purring beat magnum named Data; yielded a leap in making history.
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*Grant Notho Khumalo (formerly Grant Moyo) is a prolific writer, innovative media personality, entrepreneur and a creative artist who is passionate about using his creative mind for the betterment of society. Follow him on X: @TotemGrant The weight of progress penetrated, The Marías would also jump into the studio with American singer-songwriter Omar Banos, universally known as Cuco — on the lip-smacking joint ‘Si Me Voy’. Bending the flow of time, most recently, the group with a musical style which has often-than-not been parroted as Synth Pop, Psychedelic Soul, Dream Pop, Indie Rock, as well as Alternative Pop; pooled resources with American whiz artists — Selena Marie Gomez an actress and vocalist, as well as Benjamin Joseph Levin a record producer and composer, who goes by the moniker Benny Blanco — on the Latin Airplay-chart topper: Ojos Tristes.
At this juncture, whether or not — apart from biblical transcripts — the solitary substantial Gothic document that still eke out a living as well as the only lengthily text known to have been composed initially in the Gothic language is the Skeireins: a few folios of commentary on the Gospel of John; in all likelihood, María Zardoya shall pristine hold sway by the tag Not for Radio!
Plus, as luck would have it, oodles of matchless balance of lyricism, tone, rhythmicity, spiritualism, mannerism, dash, and execution; are unremittingly sashing out on the “calling the shots” jams: Swan, Back to You, Moment, My Turn, as well as Puddles. It is without a doubt, a no-brainer that this “buffeting stereos” front-line élan — is a never say never sharp turning point; angled to make Melt: a pulsing languorously, yet, non-too-higgledy-piggledy — highly-developed mammon of croon.
