Salvia Palth is the recording project of Daniel Johann Lines, a New Zealand musician whose moody 2013 debut became a seminal album among the emerging lo-fi bedroom pop movement. Recorded when he was just 15, Melanchole was a cathartic coming-of-age document that incorporated bits of shoegaze, fuzzy noise rock, ambient, and dream pop. The self-released album found a young international fan base, who over the following decade propelled it into a slow-burning cult classic that inspired subsequent home recordists who felt disaffected by the indie mainstream. In 2024, 11 years afte...