Bosh Rothman has spent years moving between projects like Living Things and Kills Birds, often as part of a band rather than out front. ‘Big Me’ puts him fully in the open.

Instead of leaning into the bounce of the Foo Fighters original, Rothman slows it down and lets it sag a bit. What takes over is the vocal, close and a little worn, like he’s working through the lines-it strips the song of its irony and leaves the insecurity sitting there without cover.

That angle lines up with how Joshua EP came together. The record circles a stretch where Rothman describes pulling inward hard, sleeping through days, eating badly, feeling cut off from people around him. ‘Joshua,’ the one original here, was written quickly after a drive on Mulholland, basically a reminder to himself that he wasn’t completely lost. The rest of the EP builds outward from that point, using songs by artists he’s connected to as a way of staying in motion.

There’s some real overlap in those choices. Rothman tracked at 606 Studio and had already been thinking about Dave Grohl and Ringo Starr as examples of people who reset after everything collapsed. ‘Big Me’ ends up sitting right in that lineage, but without trying to imitate it.

The recording itself stays pretty bare. Mixed by Jake Supple and tracked with a small group of players.