A Depression

"A Depression EP" started as a working title — an EP about depression, but not a specific one. No demos, no sketches, no songs. Just a name that felt right and, separately, a piece of artwork that turned out to fit.

Andrew A. Cove spent two years building the record from there — writing and producing alone in a bedroom studio in the Colorado mountains. He'd expected a guitar-driven record, but a hand injury pushed him toward keyboards, and the songs were built primarily from there: synths, piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, organ, with guitar layered back in as the injury healed. The music sits somewhere between Peter Gabriel and Nine Inch Nails. One song opens with a two-minute trumpet solo.

Weekly sessions with producer and educator ixi helped develop the songs — encouraging ideas, shaping arrangements, pushing the work forward over two years. The rest of the time it was just the songs and the mountain. Cove is a snowboarder, and melodies and structures played on repeat in his head while riding — chord changes emerged on chairlifts, lyric ideas got written down between runs. He couldn't get them out of his ear for a year. The songs didn't get tested on the mountain so much as they grew there.

Toby Wright, whose Alice in Chains and Jerry Cantrell mixes are some of Andrew's most-listened records, mixed the four core tracks. Alan Douches — who mastered Greg Puciato's Mirrorcell, the record that got him through some of what's reflected on this album — mastered the collection.

Somewhere along the way, the working title stopped being a placeholder. It's just called A Depression now. Out April 10, 2026.