For TRÍADA, making music has always been about more than the songs themselves. Julia, Ailu, and Yame met as teenagers at an arts high school in Buenos Aires, where a friendship grew into a musical partnership built on acoustic guitar, percussion, and the harmonies that would become their signature sound. After finding an audience through Instagram covers, the trio signed with Verb Records and released their covers EP, De versiones y llamas, in 2025. Now, they are stepping into something entirely their own with Exuvia, their debut album. During their press conference, the three spoke about what it means to move beyond the music that first introduced them to listeners. Produced alongside Ile Gutman, Exuvia brings a fuller, more modern sound to their acoustic roots, drawing on Latin American influences, including tango and milonga. The album also gives each member room to explore a more personal, introspective side of her artistry. “We stopped being like Instagram-based cover girls, and now we are like real artists, and we have our own identity and our own music,” they explained. That shift did not happen overnight. The trio described spending long days writing together, even retreating to a riverside cabin to finish songs under a tight deadline.
Their process remained collaborative, with every member having a say in the music. They admitted that choosing which songs would make the final album brought some disagreements, but never anything that threatened their friendship. And that friendship is still at the heart of everything they do. When asked what they wanted to preserve as their sound evolved, the band returned to the intimacy of their original setup and, above all, their connection with one another. “The most important thing is the love we have for each other,” they said. The album's title, Exuvia, refers to the skin an animal sheds as it grows. For TRÍADA, it captures the experience of outgrowing an earlier version of themselves without losing what made them who they are. They are no longer just three friends covering songs they love. They are artists learning to trust their own voices, and they are doing it together. As they look toward international performances and a future that could bring even more genre-blending into their music, TRÍADA seems less concerned with becoming something entirely new than with discovering what else they can be. Exuvia is the sound of that discovery.
- Ava Kellner Pence
