Swedish Artist Murex Announces Debut Album 'Iventio' Via Young Out 9/25
The record marks the Stockholm-based producer's first full-length project on the Young label.
Swedish artist Murex is set to release a debut album titled IVENTIO on September 25 through the label Young.
Along with the announcement, Murex has shared a new single, 'Flock Of Swans Fly In V's,' out now. The album's arrival follows her debut single 'Massacre' and the follow-up 'Hardness of a Silverspoon'.
Photo Credit: Hannah-Li Säfsten
Inventio unfurls as a glitching, glimmering constellation of 10 tracks, redrawing the boundaries of Murex's own subconscious through daring harmonic modulations, glitchy electronica and frenetic orchestral sequencing. Deeply informed by storytelling and the spirit of Nordic folklore, the record charts a journey to confront body dysmorphia, control, and a fracturing sense of self — each track spinning out from the last as Murex untangles herself from that state, reaching toward creative and emotional liberation, all set to ethereal, amorphous avant-pop.
'Making this album felt like a return to my physical body,' says Murex, 'while simultaneously realising that it will never encompass the totality of who I am. Each moment of finding is getting lost, and while my body stores the marks, the different versions of myself continue to evade and dissolve.'
The record was made across three years: one spent on introverted, intimate writing — 'that first year felt like a secret even to me,' Murex says — and two more crafting in her Stockholm studio, where songs evolved organically across a summer of mornings spent swimming, afternoons given to production.
Inventio takes its name from Bach's Inventions, which Murex played growing up on piano, and that Baroque spirit runs throughout: trilling polyphonic textures and melodies that amorphously drive from one track into the next, her lush vocal harmonies rising above it all. Sonic touchstones stretch from Björk — whose Vespertine was, in Murex's words, 'a companion' at her most lost — to Elizabeth Fraser and the kulning-style singing of Swedish folk and jazz artist Lena Willemark. Collaborators Pelle Westlin, Isak Hedtjärn (clarinet, flute) and Elvira Anderfjärd (cello, backing vocals) lend the record 'extra arms' and free-spirited improvisation; its videos, throughout, are self-directed by Murex.
New single 'Flock Of Swans Fly In V's' carries a title Murex had held onto for years, since childhood winters in Sweden. 'It was the first sign of winter coming,' she recalls. 'A flock lived on the meadow next to my house. I would see them leave and feel this sense of hope and beauty at how instinctive these swans were. They knew when to leave and escape the cold that they would never survive, and when to come back and embrace spring. I wish that I would understand that better.' Celestial, breathy soprano harmonies gather in the air, punctuated by plumes of koto, a traditional plucked Japanese instrument.
Murex is one of Young's latest signings. 'I feel like I've tried so many different ways of doing the creative process, and the only thing I hadn't tried was truly letting go,' she says. 'I feel very proud of it: I didn't think that I could do something this cohesive on my own. I have new things to discover now. I hope it's just as freeing to listen to.'
Inventio is available to pre-order at murex.y-r.co/inventio.
MUREX — INVENTIO TRACKLIST
1. Massacre
2. Been Here too Long
3. The Spire
4. Hardness of a Silverspoon
5. Biased
6. Puddle
7. Flock Of Swans Fly In V's
8. Muzak
9. Mothers Bells
10. Inventio
INVENTIO is out September 25, 2026 via Young Recordings. Follow Murex on Instagram and TikTok.
Photo Credit: Hannah-Li Säfsten
