Now, Not Yet by Half Alive

Now, Not Yet, the debut album from Long Beach's Half Alive, landed on RCA on August 9, 2019, a year after "Still Feel" turned the band into an alt-radio story. The songs go back further than the band itself: in 2015 singer Josh Taylor set himself the challenge of writing 50 songs with drummer Brett Kramer, and once bassist J. Tyler Johnson came aboard in 2017, the three holed up in a string of rented Airbnbs to finish the job. Ariel Rechtshaid produced.

It's a twitchy, genre-hopping record, all rubbery bass, jittery beats and Taylor's elastic voice, with pop hooks smuggled into something stranger. Six singles did the heavy lifting, from "still feel." and "arrow" to "RUNAWAY", "Pure Gold", "ok ok?" and "BREAKFAST", the reviews were warm, and the band spent the back half of the year on a world tour.

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