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Nov 10, 2025While it’s very distinctively her and the songs often share her main group’s mid-tempo grooves and hazy vibe, unlike the Marías, the more adventurous tracks channel the ‘90s trip-hop era of Portishead and Massive Attack, as well as adjacent groups like the underrated Broadcast, and several feature a driving, trebly electric bass reminiscent of Serge Gainsbourg’s late 1960s albums.
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Nov 7, 2025Not For Radio’s ‘Melt’ is an incredible introduction to her solo world.
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Nov 7, 2025This is Zardoya as honest and unvarnished as the nature around her, and just like there’s a beautiful fragility in the outside world, it’s her vulnerability that makes Melt feel so powerful.
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Nov 7, 2025Zardoya is in no rush throughout Melt. She lets these songs wash over her and unfold, exemplified by the blooming intensity of lead single “Back to You.”
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Nov 7, 2025The resulting solo debut, Melt, shares some pillowy musical essence with the Marías but lands somewhere more intimate, introspective, and searching as well as even more dreamily atmospheric.