Artist: josy and the mind readers
Title: sigh some more (because it releases endorphins and reduces anxiety)
Release Date: June 5, 2026
The title sigh some more (because it releases endorphins and reduces anxiety) reads like gentle advice scribbled in the margins of a notebook, and the music inside follows suit: intimate, searching, and disarmingly open. Across five songs drawn from different eras of Schlater’s writing life, the EP feels less like a compilation and more like a carefully sequenced emotional arc. Its aesthetic lives in the tension between looseness and intention: warm, analog-leaning textures brush against dreamy psychedelia; jangly, homespun rock gives way to hushed introspection; moments of communal, almost ragged joy coexist with stretches of solitary reflection. The arrangements breathe. They resist excess. What emerges is a record preoccupied with perception, how we understand love, freedom, uncertainty, and the quiet numerology of our own fixations. Rather than dramatize these questions, Schlater lets them hover, trusting melody and atmosphere to carry their weight. The result is a compact but resonant statement about interior life: five songs that move like a long exhale, steadying the pulse while subtly quickening it. On sigh some more, the act of listening becomes participatory, an invitation to lean inward, to let the mind wander, and to find, in the drift of sound, a small and sustaining release.