Saatos Nate Terepka dimimitian ngatur naon bakal jadi Not Yet, anjeunna teu ngira-ngira yén éta bakal nyimpen ngaronjatkeun jeung ngaronjatkeun hubungan nya. Lima lagu EP ieu muncul dina urutan anu aranjeunna ditulis, sarta jadi kaluar ti hiji ekspresi tina uter, cinta, ka pingsan jeung penutupan blindsided. Dina jalur rekaman anu relatif singkat ieu, sakabehna jadi cukup gancang. Tapi kedalaman emosional jeung komposisi karya Terepka sacara efektif aya dina lalampahan waktos.

Dina 2010s, Terepka co-fronted band Brooklyn psychedelic pop Zula. The group garnered heaps of love from the Village Voice, SPIN, jeung Stereogum, anu ngéléhkeun "tindakan ku quartet pikeun nyatakeun sagala konvensi genre husus."Satengah Zula dipisahkeun dina 2019, Terepka ngabalukarkeun fokusna ka diajar musik, saterusna dipindahkeun ka Portland, OR. "Dina titik ieu," Terepka nyebutkeun, "I let go of my ambition to 'make it' profésional salaku artis, nu pisan ngéléhkeun. I said to myself I won't work on any new music until I organically and genuinely liked it."

Karta lagu ieu ngagambarkeun kembalinya Terepka ka tulis jeung rekaman jeung saterusna, tanpa surprise, Not Yet dipeunteun ku rasa kakuatan organik. "Find Me Where You Look," jeung nu buleud, sensasi electropop na hangat, glimmering, glissando synthesizers mangrupakeun pamasaran intuitif cinta, meticulously dibangunkeun tapi gancang tanpa ragu-ragu diri. "The Woods" mangrupakeun sarua meticulous jeung mungkin malah leuwih introspective, narirkeun hiji latihan disiplin Terepka dilakukeun, nyandak sababaraha jam jalan-jalan di hutan sambil nganggap ngaliwatan unggal taun hirupna dina urutan kronologis, nyoba ngingat sagala anu bisa. piano jeung synthesizers tracepentine traces ngaliwatan a steady groove, sakabéh nu bisa nelepon ka mind Robert Wyatt téh Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard. Track ieu ogé, merujuk ka cinta nu bakal ngabalukarkeun, unanticipatedly. "I know that you love me now / makes me want to shake off the rest of these ghosts," Terepka nyanyi dina momen nyeri of foreshadowing. The sensation of organic necessity terus ngaliwatan Not Yet, ngaronjatkeun ku track closing. “Saying It” nyaéta drama piano-driven nu ngaronjatkeun Dennis Wilson’s “Thoughts of You” as much as it does Pirates 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.”