Singer-songwriter Katie Pearlman, who has earned praise as a featured artist alongside Gryffin, Dijon, and Lukas Graham, will unveil their debut EP later this month.

Pearlman’s new EP Mantra Songs will be delivered on June 25. A new single from the release titled “The Exception” can be heard below. Pearlman said this about the song:

“In a quarantine, when not much life is happening, I found myself writing mostly from memories. Not on purpose… mostly out of survival. The person I wrote this song about is a distant, distant memory, but one that still feels so close to me. I met him in college at a dinner party during Jazz Fest in New Orleans. He was older (practically twice my age) but our banter was electric. We spoke about music, philosophy, religion. It sparked a year long, life forming, relationship that awoke so many things in me. When it eventually died, I truly felt a part of me died with it. This song was technically written by accident. But clearly something in me knew it was a story I’ve been needing to tell for many years. My friends Wendy Wang and Jack Karaszewski helped produce it.”

The seven-track release, which includes the previously released singles “Sad Sex” and “Where Do You Go??”, was co-produced by Kyle Shearer (Caroline Polacheck), Wendy Wang, Trey Campbell (Banks, John Legend), and Jack Karazewski.

Mantra Songs tracklisting

1. Where Do You Go??

2. Paralyzed

3. All The Way

4. The Exception

5. Sad Sex

6. Polly

7. Plenty