Italian vocalist and songwriter Marta Del Grandi worked primarily as a jazz singer throughout the 2010s before venturing into a compositional art pop influenced by a mix of the American 1960s West Coast sound, exotica, and the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and David Lynch. With lyrics based on similarly out-of-the-ordinary, often mythic inspirations, she released her full-length pop debut, the intimate Until We Fossilize, in 2021. She expanded her sound into deeper crevasses on the more personal Selva in 2023.