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In February, Zardoya, Evian, and Buccellati headed to upstate New York for three weeks of writing and recording\u2014an unlikely setting for the San Juan-born artist. \u201cI wanted to record somewhere totally out of my comfort zone, and outside of LA,\u201d she explains. \u201cI\u2019m Puerto Rican and an island girly, so the polar opposite was going to upstate New York in the dead of winter.\u201d Between sessions, they took long walks through the woods and ate farm-fresh duck eggs.<\/p>\n
Melt<\/em>\u2019s softly gothic sound may feel familiar to fans of the Mar\u00edas, whose production leaned toward the lush, layered, and hypnotic, but it\u2019s slower, moodier. \u201cThe Mar\u00edas are very much a band, but from day one, Josh and I have written all of the music. So what you get is 50-50 Josh\u2019s musical DNA and mine,\u201d Zardoya says. \u201cWhereas with my solo project, I wanted this to feel like music you\u2019d listen to in nature while sitting under a tree, or on the train looking out a window.\u201d (If ever a song began to stray from the sensibility she was after, Zardoya recalls, she\u2019d describe it as \u201cnot vampire<\/em> enough!\u201d)<\/p>\n Its tone draws as much from the wintry stillness of those New York woods as from Evian and Buccellati\u2019s love of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> (which, yes, they got Zardoya into, too). \u201cSam, Luca, and I worked so seamlessly because we have such similar musical DNA. We\u2019re inspired by the same things,\u201d Zardoya says. \u201cA song called \u2018Back to You\u2019<\/a> felt like the stars were aligning\u2014the melody came out of nowhere. We were all just in our little stations, creating, and then before we knew it, we had a whole song.\u201d The trio were delighted to discover, after the song was finished, that the planets had quite literally been aligned<\/a> that night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vogue.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In February, Zardoya, Evian, and Buccellati headed to upstate New York for three weeks of writing and recording\u2014an unlikely setting for the San Juan-born artist. \u201cI wanted to record somewhere totally out of my comfort zone, and outside of LA,\u201d she explains. \u201cI\u2019m Puerto Rican and an island girly, so the polar opposite was going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2085369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[392482,21800,380029,382685,23105],"class_list":["post-2085368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-_syndication_noshow","tag-music","tag-storytypeinterview","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Maria-Zardoyas-New-Project-Is-Lush-Moody-a-Little-Dark\u2014and.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085370,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085368\/revisions\/2085370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}