Andrew A. Cove
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A Depression

Andrew A. Cove · EP · April 10, 2026

Six tracks about struggling to make sense of a life that isn't working.

Bio

"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.

The Sound

Lush with synthesizers, organs, and old keyboards. Razor guitars cut through when they appear. Much of the record is built on ostinatos — repeating figures that shift underneath. Gentle piano melodies give way to screams. Background vocals surface from nowhere and disappear. Some songs shift time signatures. It's heavy, but the weight comes from the emotions, not the distortion.

For Fans Of

Nine Inch NailsPeter GabrielA Perfect CircleThe Black QueenGreg PuciatoPusciferLed ZeppelinCoheed and CambriaJimmy Eat WorldGodspeed You! Black EmperorQueens of the Stone Age

Track Listing

6 tracks · 28 minutes

1 Disappointless
6:58
2 On A Limb
4:31
3 Alone Again (instrumental)
1:02
4 This Way Lies Madness
7:10
5 Is This All There Is? (instrumental)
2:05
6 You Asked For This
6:14

Credits

Written & Produced Andrew A. Cove
Mixed Toby Wright
Instrumental Interludes Mixed Andrew A. Cove
Mastered Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Additional Production ixi
Artwork One Pixel Brush
Typography Anita Z Chacinska

Press Assets

EP Artwork (High Resolution)

Suggested Interview Questions

1. The EP is called A Depression. Not "Depression" or "My Depression." Why that phrasing?
2. "Disappointless" opens with "Did you believe what they told you? What kind of fool does that make you?" Who is the "they"? Is it anyone specific, or something bigger?
3. You built this record primarily from keyboards after a hand injury took guitar away. At what point did the keys stop being a limitation and start being the voice of these songs?
4. "This Way Lies Madness" has the line "The love you confess has made me hate you." That doesn't sound like it's about a romantic partner. What kind of relationship produces a line like that?
5. "You Asked For This" shifts between "the monster you made her" and "the monster you made me." Is that song about blame, or about becoming something you didn't choose?
6. You left the city thinking a change of environment might help. A lot of people have made that bet. What did you find out about what's actually portable and what isn't?
7. The relationships on this record aren't all the same kind. Some of them seem impossible to walk away from. How do you write about damage done by people you can't cut out of your life?
8. One of these songs opens with a two-minute trumpet solo. That's a real choice on a six-track EP. Where did that come from?
9. Four vocal tracks, two instrumentals. What do the instrumentals say that the lyrics can't?
10. The record ends with "I hate this, I want this to end." That line means more than one thing. Did you know which one you meant when you wrote it?

Contact

Email [email protected]
Instagram @aac.music
Website https://aac.social
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