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Acclaimed alternative-pop band The Marías today
released their eagerly awaited debut album CINEMA via Nice Life
Recording Company/Atlantic Records (buy/stream HERE).
The album arrives alongside an official music video for “Calling U Back”
directed by lead singer María
Zardoya and Bethany Vargas (watch HERE).
Also available beginning today are tickets to the band’s
highly-anticipated CINEMA North American
headline tour. The 2022 run will kick off at Las Vegas’
Brooklyn
Bowl on January
26 and include a show at NY’s Brooklyn Steel on February 17,
before culminating with a hometown show at The Novo
in LA on March
12. Tickets are available for purchase now HERE.
On this side of the year, the band will play a show on October 5 at
the iconic Red
Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, opening for Leon Bridges.
They’ll also perform next month at The
Ford Theater with the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles,
as well as at Boise’s
Treefort Music Festival in September [full live show
routing enclosed below].
To celebrate the album release, the band will be hosting a pop-up fan
event this evening at Supervinyl
in Los Angeles. From 6-9pm,
fans can come by the iconic record store for album signings, custom
astrology portraits and readings, exclusive merch, and more! Other
release week celebrations include art
installations in NY’s Times Square and LA’s Silverlake
neighborhood, featuring giant custom-made swan sculptures paying homage
to the album’s artwork.
Earlier this week, the band appeared on Zane
Lowe’s Apple
Music radio program, with Lowe praising their “brilliant new album” and
declaring, “The
future looks really great for you guys.”
CINEMA was
written and produced entirely by Zardoya and her partner – producer and
multi-instrumentalist Josh
Conway – within their LA apartment. In performing the
music, the duo is joined by their closest friends Jesse Perlman
(guitar), Edward
James (keys), and Gabe
Steiner (trumpet) to round out the band.
When dreaming up their first full-length, Zardoya and Conway mined
inspiration from such hyper-imaginative filmmakers as Pedro Almodóvar
and Wes
Anderson, achieving an untamed emotionality that acutely
amplifies the most intimate of feelings.
In addition to those influential classic films, the album’s title also
pays homage to the work María and Josh first collaborated on – creating
music for film + television scores. (In a nod to the bilingualism of
their work, the title CINEMA
carries the same meaning in both English and Spanish).
By sharing their album with the world, the band hopes to ignite a
creative impulse within their listeners:
“We want
people to feel inspired to create anything, whether it’s music or art or
whatever else they’re drawn to,” says María.
“Hopefully
the songs will help them to break away from real life for a while and
create some kind of dream world in their heads – something like the
scenes to their own little movie.”
CINEMA includes
previously released debut single “Hush,”
which arrived in April alongside a mystical official music video starring
Zardoya (watch here). The bold, bass-heavy track was
met with acclaim from outlets including MTV, E!, Paste [Best Songs of
the Week], Brooklyn Vegan, Uproxx and more.
Released earlier this month, “Un
Millón” – one of several songs in Spanish appearing
on the album – unfolds in swaying beats and spellbinding melodies, with
lyrics that express a tender affection for Zardoya’s beloved birthplace
of Puerto Rico. That track also received praise upon release, including
from FLAUNT
and Ones
to Watch. Just this week, the band teased the arrival of
the full-length with the release of “Little
By Little,” earning a global New Music Daily cover at
Apple Music.
EARLY PRAISE FOR
CINEMA:
“The
hypnotic lead single entrances with a minimal electronic beat and almost
blasé, sometimes whispered kiss-offs, while the visual is reminiscent of
giallo-era Italian horror. Decadent blood-red tones suggest something
delightfully sinister is at work.” – MTV
“The
L.A.-based indie band embrace pop's ongoing (and always welcome) disco
trend on this sultry lead single from their long-awaited debut
album, CINEMA. This one's seriously sexy.” – E!
“The
alt-pop band we all should be listening to on a sunset drive home is most
definitely The Marías. The sensual yet vibrant lyrics sung both in
English and in Spanish never cease to nod to the essence of old-time
movies and sounds.” – FLAUNT
“The
Marías have finally put out the first single ahead of their
highly-anticipated debut album… ‘Hush’ continues to develop their talent
for breathy, hypnotic jams.” – PASTE
[BEST
NEW SONGS OF THE WEEK]
“The
Marías know how to get our hearts fluttering and minds daydreaming.
And their newest release is a reminder they also know how to get our
bodies moving. The stunning single, ‘Un Millón,’ has us feeling a million
different types of bliss… Its addictiveness already has us feeling hooked
on the project to come, and we cannot wait to experience it in
full.” – ONES
TO WATCH
“First
single ‘Hush’ is definitely on the cinematic tip; modern noir synth.”
– BROOKLYN
VEGAN
“After
sharing a handful of effervescent singles, The Marías have officially
unveiled their debut full-length album ‘Cinema’ with the dark pop anthem
track ‘Hush.’ Over a reverberating beat, vocalist María Zardoya’s
gossamer vocals delicately ushers in an era of sensual-yet-energizing
music.” – UPROXX
“A woozy,
bass-heavy, and impeccably intoxicating track… as always it’s the
chemistry between the couple that ignites something within their music.”
– GRIMY
GOODS
“The Los Angeles-based
group is the picture of unbothered excellence on the first lead-up to
their new album… It doesn’t matter how cool you are – you’re probably not
as cool as The Marías.” – CULTURE
COLLIDE
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