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Horizon"/"Thank You Los Angeles", was released in late August 2014. The band promoted the new songs around L.A. with a launch at the Del Monte speakeasy, a slot on the Abbot Kinney Fest and the Desert Stars Festival at Pappy & Harriets. Matt Ellis launched his
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Angeles music venues as the Hotel Cafe and The Troubadour. He returned to his homeland twice off the back of the album, playing both Brisbane and Sydney,
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Luca (Calexico, Iron & Wine). The pair spent the following months setting up in multiple home studios adding vocals, Fender Rhodes, piano and additional guitars, before Ellis returned to Tucson to mix the album with
Schumacher, the celebrated engineer behind his last two releases.
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Americana and folk. Ellis' trademark voice is in fine form and the songs have an extra level of detail, but the long list of guest musicians is gone. The band Ellis put together to promote his previous full length,
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