Josh Conway of The Marias Pensados Place, 533

Our guest is one of The Marias, who are up for Best Engineered Album at the 2022 GRAMMY Awards. On their highlyanticipated debut album Cinema, The Marías provide listeners an escape into a dynamic world that is alluring and mysterious while equally charming and inviting. In dreaming up their first fulllength, frontwoman María Zardoya and multiinstrumentalist producer Josh Conway mined inspiration from such hyperimaginative filmmakers as Pedro Almodóvar, achieving an untamed emotionality that acutely amplifies the most intimate of feelings. When met with the exquisite nuance of their soundthe lavish textures, shapeshifting percussion, lyrics sung in both English and Spanishthe result is a body of work that bends reality and heightens the senses to glorious effect. Welcome to The Place, Josh Conway Rest in Peace to musical icon and dear friend of the show, Lisa Roy