Scabs: Jaden Andreone’s Re-Introduction

Jaden Andreone, pronounced An-dree-oni, didn’t release music for two years, but not a day went by where he wasn’t writing first thing in the morning. After the hiatus concluded on February 20th, “Body” was introduced into the world, and on the horizon, his EP “Scabs” will invite listeners to truly invest in Jaden.

“As I was collecting these songs, it never crossed my mind to put together a project, but after 2 years, I looked through everything and certain ones stood out as living in the same world.” Jaden says.

“The cross through between all of them was that they felt very emotional and pungent. Maybe even so much so that I needed to take a break and come back to work on it later. That’s the loose idea of Scabs, are you reopening wounds and things that have happened in your life that most people who don’t create art would just move on from? As an artist, a lot of us want to collect those moments and let them linger, for better or worse.” 

With the promotion of Scabs, there’s a cassette attached to it. The physical love that the listener and artist can feel with it, the customization with running music through and going in afterwards digitally, the tone & quality; you can’t emulate that sound as well otherwise.

Even at only 5 tracks, the feeling of going up a hill, and then coming down is present. The last song being completely instrumental, came out of Jaden one night, and he swore he had never made anything like it in his life.

“That song was made in a moment of heartbreak, like released departure. Somewhere buried in there is a story, not that I really know it.”

Outside of music, scrapbooking really inspires the personality behind the music. Mixed media journal scans on Substack, rather than typed out words, are his biggest linguistic fascination.

“There’s something really visceral and awesome about that. That mix of photography is something that inspires me. But I don’t see it separately from music, it feels like one big journal.”

There’s something beautiful about writing for the sake of it. We live in a time where art has been commodified more than ever, and a lot of what’s missing is creating for the joy of creating.

Scabs’ ideal listening environment could be walking down the street or in your room. Probably not on the subway, there’s no 808s so you might not be able to hear it very well but it’s a fitting time of year, being a little gloomy & melancholy. 

“Seb Mahal, who is in a great band called Broom. He’s a co-producer, and played in my band a bunch of times. Great friend and collaborator. I’d shout out Max Morgen, Jackson Lowe, Matthew Rideout, Elliot Higgins, Lorenz Anderson, co-produced 5th of July, 2nd to last song. That was very much a scrapbooking process. Shout out to everyone who inspired these songs, every relationship that has caused me to make music in the first place.”