“Still Feel” by Half Alive

"Still Feel" was the song that put Half Alive on the map: the first single from their debut album Now, Not Yet, it arrived in August 2018, and it bounces between indie-funk, pop and jazzy electronic flourishes like it can't sit still. The band's three members, Josh Taylor, J. Tyler Johnson and Brett Kramer, wrote it with Emiko Bankson, Rachel Kramer and James Krausse, who also mixed it, while Eric Palmquist produced and engineered.

It grew out of the breakup of the singer's high school band and uses outer-space imagery to wrestle with finding hope and purpose when you feel adrift. Its choreographed video, shot at Popsicle LA, caught fire on YouTube and got RCA Records to sign them. The song became their first to chart in the US, reached the top 10 on the Alternative Songs chart and went Gold in 2021.

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