in 2004, the natural history recorded a second album called "people that i meet", which was due in the spring of 2005; however, the band soon split from their record label startime international, and the record's release was postponed indefinitely. finally, after nearly two years of fishing for a new record label, the record was self-released by the band in november 2007. one of the songs that ended up on the album, "don't you ever", was covered by spoon on their sixth studio album "ga ga ga ga ga". spoon also included the natural history's original version of the song on their ep "don't you evah", which was released on april 8, 2008. spoon included "don't you evah" on "", released by matador records in july 2019. an article written for "playboy" magazine by julian tepper includes a q & a with spoon's britt daniel, in which the tepper brothers and daniel recount the story behind "don't you evah".