Buenos Aires trio Tríada built an audience by reinterpreting songs like João Gilberto’s “O Pato” and Maria Elena Walsh’s “Canción De Bañar La Luna.” Their 2025 covers EP, De Versiones y Alma, turned that material into a calling card. On October 23, the group will step away from it with Exuvia, their debut album for Verve/Mercury Records.
The title references the scientific term for an animal shedding its skin — a fitting frame for a band moving from covers to original songwriting. Percussionist and vocalist Diamela Spina, guitarist Aylen Reynoso, and singer Julia Percowicz formed the trio at a music conservatory a few years ago. Their early interpretations earned attention online, but Exuvia is meant to establish them as writers, not just arrangers.
First single “Clara” offers a clearer picture. The folk track follows a down-on-her-luck older woman who finds new meaning by reconnecting with the land around her. Percowicz wrote the story around the phrase “Claro que Clara,” then built the character outward — bitter, but not without movement. It is the kind of specific storytelling that gives the album’s transition some weight.
With a mostly blank canvas behind them and a long week of preparation behind the announcement, the trio appears focused on what the debut represents: a change in material, not just a change in scale.
