With a wide range of influences that span from shoegaze to Latin music to jazz, the Marias don’t sound like anyone else — and their breakthrough single “No One Noticed ” sounds like absolutely nothing that’s been on the mainstream charts in decades, if ever. Their latest single, “Back to Me,” continues in that vein and expands on it.

The group’s sound is a wash of gauzy textures, aquatic atmospheres and midtempo grooves and seems like it’s all one big sound, but a closer listen reveals just how many layers and elements are in that sound: clouds of keyboards and heavily treated guitars, multitracked vocals and lots of sounds that are hard to identify.

But it’s all revealed — and then some — in perhaps the most in-depth “Behind the Song” to date. All four bandmembers joined Variety at

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