Naya Yeira plots a six-track reset with Almost There

Naya Yeira has a six-track EP, Almost There, around three years in the works. The 25-year-old London independent artist talks through the record in a photo diary about its making. No release date or label is announced.

Her first song, 'Afterglow', came out of a songwriting class at London's BIMM Music Institute in 2021. The pop-jazz number has passed a million streams and is the most-listened track on her Spotify. The follow-up has not run to the same script: "My first song ever got a million streams, and then it all fell apart," she says.

Almost There moves her toward experimental R&B, indie and internet-pop. Tracks include 'raffle ticket', 'i might hit record', 'do my dance' and 'wicked games', a 2025 cut. She describes 'raffle ticket' as a song about how love is a lottery, and 'i might hit record' as about self-love.

She handles her own visuals, having taught herself Python, Blender3D and TouchDesign. "It took me a minute to figure out what I would sound like," she says. "Maybe only in 2025, and I started in 2019."