Ares

Covet's "Ares" arrives with a tension that CHON almost never reaches for — a charged, almost anxious energy that makes the air feel pressurized before the first full phrase resolves. Yvette Young's guitar playing here leans heavily into her signature two-hand tapping technique, but where it can sometimes produce a dreamy, cascading effect, in "Ares" the tapped lines carry a harder edge, more percussive and forward-leaning, as though the notes are pushing against something rather than floating through open space. The rhythmic figures are tight and interlocked, the bass and drums creating a grid with real mass, and the dynamic contrast between quiet passages and louder, more insistent sections gives the track a structural drama that feels intentional and earned. Emotionally it occupies a space between resolution and restlessness — not quite aggressive, not quite serene, caught in the moment of deciding which way to move. The title invokes Mars, the god of war, and while the track isn't martial in any obvious way, there's something in its insistence, its refusal to stay comfortable, that fits. Covet sit adjacent to the same guitar-focused progressive scene as CHON but pull from a broader palette of textures and a more overtly emotional compositional sensibility — less California warmth, more late-night urgency. This is for the moments when stillness feels impossible, when the mind needs something with enough structure and intensity to match its own pressure.