[Cover photo credit to Hannah-Li Säfsten]
The Swedish artist Murex has announced her debut album, Inventio, out September 25, 2026, via Young. The record’s arrival is marked by new single, “Flock Of Swans Fly In V’s”, out now.
Following the release of previous singles, Inventio is focused on “redrawing the boundaries of Murex’s own subconscious” through harmonic modulations, glitchy Electronica and orchestral sequencing.
Informed by “storytelling and the spirit of Nordic folklore” the record confronts “body dysmorphia, control, and a fracturing sense of self.” The goal is “creative and emotional liberation.”
Murex says:
Making this album felt like a return to my physical body, 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 writing, 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 the album. Collaborators included Pelle Westlin, Isak Hedtjärn (clarinet, flute) and Elvira Anderfjärd (cello, backing vocals). The album’s 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.
She recalls:
It was the first sign of winter coming. 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.
The song also features the koto, a traditional plucked Japanese instrument.
Murex concludes about the album:
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. 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.
