Noémi Büchi Announces New Album Exuvie — A Lush, Metamorphic Fusion of Pop, Orchestral Romanticism & Electroacoustic Abstraction

Swiss/French composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi returns with Exuvie, her third and most intricate album to date — a vivid, shape-shifting exploration of matter, memory, and metamorphosis. Arriving 27 February 2026 on -OUS, the record synthesizes pop sensibilities, orchestral Romanticism, electroacoustic forms, video game and anime music, hip-hop rhythms, and spectral textures into a dense, painterly world of sound.

Built around the idea of exuviae — the skin or shell left behind after transformation — Exuvie dives into the fragile space where past and present overlap, where identity sheds and reforms. Büchi examines the disconnect between body and mind: the body slow to react, to hold, to remember; the mind racing ahead. The album becomes an intimate anatomy of change, tracing the hidden memories stored in and under the skin.

Drawing inspiration from Francis Bacon’s dislocated bodies, the tension of vulnerability and intimacy, and the profound resonance of silence, Büchi crafts soundscapes that feel sculptural and alive. Exuvie unfolds like a memory-painting — fragmentary, embodied, and suspended between temporalities. Its architecture merges orchestral sweep with electroacoustic detail, creating an emotional turbulence both expansive and precise.

Already praised for her elastic, genre-defying approach to composition, Büchi continues to push her language forward. As Pitchfork wrote:“Equally inspired by late Romantic symphonies and experimental electronic techniques... Büchi makes sound infinitely pliable: dense as marble but light as air.”