Four years is a long time. Atta Boy have spent theirs touring, writing, surviving a disaster, and building something worth the wait. “Haven’t Yet,” out now via Diamond City, is the Los Angeles quartet’s first new music since 2022’s ‘Crab Park’, and it arrives as the opening statement of a new album expected late spring.
The song sits squarely in the space Atta Boy know best: emotionally direct, carefully constructed, and harder to shake than it first appears. It tackles the communication breakdown inside a relationship, the kind that compounds quietly until both people feel alone. “It’s about the loneliness that can come with avoidance in a partner,” says guitarist and vocalist Eden Brolin, “and ultimately the continuous commitment to mending that on a level playing field.” That’s a lot to carry in a single, and the band carries it well.
The new material was written and demoed in late 2024, with the band reconvening in January 2025 to record, only to be halted by the Los Angeles wildfires. The pause reshaped things. Guitarist Freddy Reish had built his own studio, The Pink Feather, named after his grandparents’ saloon, giving the band room to push further than their usual compressed recording timelines had allowed. A group that originally formed in high school, with well over a decade together, took full advantage of the space.
“Haven’t Yet” had already been road tested live, supporting CAAMP and during select headline dates last autumn. Keyboardist Dashel Thompson notes the song got a strong reception at every show. Listeners who caught those performances will recognize it immediately. Everyone else is about to.