Now, Not Yet is the debut studio album by American band Half Alive, released through RCA Records on August 9, 2019. The songwriting process for the record began in 2015, before Half Alive was formed, during a challenge in which lead singer Josh Taylor would try to write 50 songs, and drummer Brett Kramer joined him on the project. After the band's formation and the release of their debut EP 3, bassist J Tyler Johnson was added to the band in 2017 and from then the trio would rent a number of Airbnbs to write the songs off the album until 2019. Upon release, Now, Not Yet was met with positive reviews, and secured placements on the US Heatseekers Albums, Alternative Albums and Rock Albums charts, including at number one on the former. The record was supported by six singles: "Still Feel", "Arrow", "Runaway", "Pure Gold", "OK OK?", and "Breakfast". The band embarked on a world tour in support of the album in 2019 from August to November. Background Josh Taylor, wanting to prove himself as a songwriter, announced in November 2015 that he had been on a seven-month songwriting program for the past several months during which he hoped to write 50 songs by the end of December. As the project progressed, Taylor began to share studio time with drummer Brett Kramer. The program ended on December 30. The duo finally decided to form a band named Half Alive in 2016 while "watching the songs evolve as [they] were working together." They spent that year recording three of the 50 songs in a converted helicopter hangar in the Mojave Desert alongside producer James Krausse, and released them as an extended play titled 3 in 2017. It attracted some attention partly due to its two singles "The Fall" and "Aawake at Night". Soon after the EP's release, the duo added a new member to their band, bassist J Tyler Johnson, in order to avoid using computer-generated sounds in their songs and live performances in favor of live instruments. The songwriting process for the two eldest songs of the album began during the 50 song project, the first of which was "Arrow" at number 5, while "Still Feel" was the eleventh song from the challenge. These were the only songs from the project to be included on the album. "Creature" was the first song to be written by the band as