Maria Spivak on Ecstatic Records is a musician and sound artist based in Cyprus. Her hypnagogic pop blends coolly melodic vocals, smudged synths and bare-bones DIY production that makes a virtue of “mistakes” and grit in-the-mix. A combination of 80s post-punk to ambient-pop and trip hop inform her music as much as her observations on Cypriot sociopolitics, culture, and nature - imperceptibly woven into her songs with a folk art filigree that feels timeless, recalling the low-key magick of everyone from Teresa Winter to HTRK, yet gauzily delivered from her own, enchanted perspective. In her latest work, she slips between melancholic guitar strums, lo-fi soundscapes and harmonies that rotate beguilingly from Greek to English. The record is set to be released in 2023.