When Nate Terepka په هغه څه کې کار وکړي چې به وي Not Yet، هغه انتظار نه وکړه چې دا د هغه د اړیکو په لوړه او کمولو کې راټول شي. د EP د پانګونه په ترتیب کې شتون لري چې دوی جوړ شوي دي، او له دې امله د بشپړ، خوښۍ سپارښتنه، ته د اندیښنې او بندۍ ته د نښلیدو څخه حرکت کوي. په دې نسبتا مختصر ریکارډ کولو کې د ټولو په پرتله سرعت کې ترسره کیږي. مګر د Terepka د کار د احساساتي او compositional عمومي په اغیزمنه توګه د وخت په اوږدو کې راټول کیږي.

په 2010s کې، Terepka د غیرقانوني بروکولین psychedelic پاپ بانډ Zula. د ډلې له د ښاروالۍ غږ, SPIN، او د سپارښتنه، چې د کوټیټ د "د هر ځانګړي ژورنال کنوانسیونونو په لټه کې نلري" تعریف کړ. په 2019 کال کې زولا له امله، Terepka خپل تمرکز د موسيقي زده کړې ته وده ورکړي، په پایله کې د پورټلین ته وده ورکړي، OR. "د هغه وخت کې،" Terepka وايي، "په دې وخت کې، زه خپل هڅه له خوا د يو هنرمند په مسلکي توګه جوړ کړي، کوم چې په رښتيا کې د آزادولو لپاره دی. زه خپل ځان وايي چې زه به د هر نوي موسيقي په اړه نه کار وکړي تر څو چې زه په طبيعي او حقیقي توګه دا احساس وکړم."

These songs mark Terepka’s return to writing and recording and so, unsurprisingly, Not Yet is imbued with a sense of organic necessity. “Find Me Where You Look,” with its buoyant, electropop feel and warm, shimmering, glissando synthesizers is an intuitive celebration of love, meticulously constructed but thoroughly free of self-doubt. “The Woods” is equally meticulous and perhaps even more introspective, narrating a disciplined exercise Terepka undertook, taking a several hours-long walk in the woods while thinking through every year of his life in chronological order, attempting to remember everything he possibly could. Piano and synthesizers trace serpentine paths through a steady groove, all of which might call to mind Robert Wyatt’s Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard. This track too, references the love that would eventually, unexpectedly dissolve. “I know that you love me now / makes me want to shake off the rest of these ghosts,” Terepka sings in an aching moment of foreshadowing. The sense of organic necessity continues throughout Not Yet, deepening by the closing track. “Saying It” is a sweeping piano-driven drama that recalls Dennis Wilson’s “Thoughts of You” as much as it does د سپیکر or Amen Dunes.

Despite the collapse that characterizes this record’s denouement, Not Yet is anything but bitter. Its own existence saves it from that. “Working on this new set of songs and recordings felt very pure,” Terepka says. “It was the first time since I was an adolescent that I was making music for my own self-expression, untainted by ambitions for any particular kind of success in a scene. I think that’s why I feel so good about this project.”