"Melt" is the first solo album, conceived as a "parallel reality," by Maria Zardoya, singer and songwriter of The Marias, an indie-pop band from California already nominated for Grammy Awards. Her project was born while Maria lived isolated in the snowy hills of upstate New York: "Is love worth the pain?" As if under the spell of nature, Maria transformed her winter sorrow into a series of intimate psychedelic ballads, infused with a touch of gothic romanticism.