Acclaimed alternative-pop band The Marías has released the music video for their new single “Hush,” first single off their forthcoming debut album Cinema – due out June 25th.
Written by María Zardoya and Josh Conway, produced by Conway, “HUSH” is a sultry, pop-funk anthem. Zardoya combines spanglish perfectly, and the video is a haunting dream come true.
Cinema – which features tracks in English and Spanish – draws inspiration from the classic films and directors that María and Josh grew up watching, including Pedro Almodóvar and Wes Anderson. The title also pays homage to how the band first began creating music in the first place. María said:
The Marías were born from cinema, the reason Josh and I started writing music together was because of cinema. Through a friend, we were connected to a music supervisor who would send us requests for music for films. We’d receive a synopsis of a scene, and then we’d have to write music to it within a couple of days. Not only did that teach us how to write songs together fairly quickly, it taught us how to think like filmmakers. We’d imagine worlds in our minds based on the synopses – the colors in the scene, the lighting, the actors, the set design, and of course, the music.