“Hi, it’s Maria,” begins María Zardoya in a voice message, her voice low against a slow instrumental. “Welcome to Not for Radio , my alternate reality.”

Zardoya, the lead singer of the Marías, announced her debut solo project in a series of posts across social media Wednesday, while sharing her inquisitive voice note on Spotify with the title “Message 1” alongside the album title. “I wanted to explore on my own what it meant to love and to lose. And I keep asking myself the question: Is love worth the pain?” she continues to detail. “If there’s a pain that only love can cause — the ache of someone’s absence, of knowing that they once lived there inside your home, tangible and tender — but now reside only inside your memory. What do you think, Is love worth the pain? I’m ready to find ou

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