TRÍADA's Chemistry Is Not Something They Manufactured In A Rehearsal Room

On their debut album, Exuvia, the Buenos Aires trio leave their childhood behind, embrace the darker corners of their creativity, and discover what happens when friendship becomes something bigger than the sum of its parts. There is something a little magical about growing up alongside the people who know you best. You change, your tastes evolve, and the person you were at sixteen starts to feel like someone you remember rather than someone you recognize.

But what happens when you grow up together and your growing pains become music? For TRÍADA, the Buenos Aires trio formed by Julia Percowicz, Aylen Reynoso, and Diamela Spina, the answer is Exuvia. Named after the discarded outer layer left behind when an organism grows, their debut album captures a group learning to become something new without losing the intimacy that brought them together in the first place. The three friends started out posting covers on Instagram, never quite imagining that their shared musical chemistry would become a career. Now, after years of developing their sound together, they are stepping into a new chapter with an album that reaches beyond the sweet, acoustic identity audiences have come to associate with them. 

Growing Up Without Growing Apart

For TRÍADA, the transformation has been as personal as it has been musical. Becoming professional musicians meant navigating the less romantic side of the industry, from bureaucratic headaches to unfamiliar responsibilities that arrived long before they felt entirely prepared for them. They had started out as kids making music together. Suddenly, they were expected to make decisions as artists and businesspeople, too. The shift also meant confronting the expectations attached to their existing identity. As they explained, they wanted to move beyond being seen as Instagram girls and establish themselves as musicians with a sound and creative direction of their own. That doesn't mean throwing everything away. If anything, Exuvia is an exercise in figuring out what deserves to stay. The closeness that defined their earlier releases remains at the center of the album, as do their intertwined voices and the democratic approach that has shaped their music from the beginning. They make decisions together, challenge one another's ideas, and work toward what feels right for the trio rather than any one individual. They may be leaving childhood behind, but the sisterhood remains nonnegotiable. They describe themselves as still being like sisters, even as they grow into women with increasingly distinct creative ambitions. 

Three Voices, One Shared Language

TRÍADA's chemistry is not something they manufactured in a rehearsal room. It grew out of years of friendship, shared musical education, and the instinctive understanding that comes from knowing someone beyond their role in a band. Their name reflects this duality. It refers both to the three notes that form a musical triad and to the bond between the three women. When they compose or perform, they describe themselves as moving beyond their individual identities to work as a collective. That doesn't mean every decision comes easily. During the creation of Exuvia, choosing which songs would make the final album brought plenty of competing preferences. Nobody describes it as a fight, though. Disagreement is simply part of figuring out what works best for all three of them. Their songwriting follows the same collaborative instinct. Lyrics and melodies tend to emerge together, with each member offering opinions and listening closely to the others. Even their earliest covers helped establish the arrangement that would become their signature, particularly the harmonies and the way their voices fit together. One of the album's most meaningful tracks is "Triada," a song they wrote when they were just sixteen. It existed before the band itself had taken shape, and its name eventually became their own. Releasing it now, largely preserving the essence of what they imagined as teenagers, gives the song a different kind of significance. It is a reminder that the people they were and the artists they are becoming have never been entirely separate.

Buenos Aires, Spanish, and the Freedom to Experiment

Although TRÍADA draws from the musical history of Buenos Aires, the city doesn't completely define their sound. Tango appears in subtle details throughout Exuvia, including a track that takes a more contemporary approach to the genre. Their influences also stretch across Latin American music, Brazilian sounds, classical composition, and the work of João Gilberto. Working with producer Didi Gutman helped the trio bring those ideas into a more modern sonic landscape. His musicianship and willingness to experiment opened up possibilities that went beyond their original acoustic arrangements, giving them room to imagine new instrumental textures and a fuller production. That willingness to mix influences extends to their decision to make the album entirely in Spanish. For the trio, writing in their mother tongue was never an elaborate political statement or a marketing strategy. It was simply the natural starting point. The political dimension came from refusing to question that choice. They believe that making music in Spanish means trusting the expressive possibilities of their own language and Latin American identity rather than assuming they need to adapt themselves to English-speaking audiences. There is also something deeply practical about that conviction. They can express themselves more naturally in Spanish, and translating those feelings into another language would inevitably change what they are trying to communicate. 

The Darker Side of TRÍADA

Perhaps the most revealing part of Exuvia is what the trio has allowed themselves to uncover. One member describes writing lyrics from a particularly dark place, finding that putting those feelings into songs became an important part of her growth. Another speaks about the satisfaction of handling arrangements and playing drums, experiencing new aspects of the production process for the first time. Together, these experiences mark a shift in how they understand themselves creatively. Their newer work reflects years of development, and the differences between their earliest compositions and the final songs on the album make that evolution audible. They are also embracing a side of themselves that audiences may not expect. They describe one unreleased song as darker, more introspective, and more poetic than anything listeners have encountered from them before. It represents precisely the kind of transformation that inspired the album's title: the realization that a familiar identity can contain something entirely different beneath the surface. Their music has always been intimate, but intimacy doesn't have to mean sweetness. Sometimes it means allowing people to see the parts of yourself that don't fit neatly into the image they already have of you.

Making Room for What's Next

The album took shape during an intense three-day composing session at a riverside cabin in Villa Gesell. Away from their usual routines, the trio spent their days writing, cooking pasta, and playing card games. The point was to give music their undivided attention, even if their famously methodical approach meant there was still plenty of overthinking involved. That balance between spontaneity and deliberation seems to define TRÍADA. They want to experiment, fuse more genres, and keep expanding their sound, but they don't want to lose the closeness that makes their collaboration work. Their upcoming tour offers another opportunity to explore that balance, from acoustic performances that preserve the intimacy of their recordings to the possibility of eventually bringing a full band on the road. For now, even the prospect of performing in another country feels extraordinary. Whether twenty people, a hundred, or just one person show up to hear them play, the connection matters more than the crowd size. There is a lovely circularity to TRÍADA's story.

They began as friends making music without a grand plan, and they have arrived at their first album with a clearer sense of who they are, both individually and together. Exuvia carries their beginnings forward, keeping the old harmonies while making room for new ones. Growing up together may have been destiny, as they see it. Becoming artists, however, has required them to make their own choices.

The beautiful thing is that they are still making them together.