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Steven J. Horowitz
Senior Music Writer
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Courtesy of Michael Bailey Gates Ryan Beatty was about to embark on the final leg of his “Calico” tour in 2024 when he cut the song “Phantom” with frequent collaborator Ethan Gruska. He was in Los Angeles, the city he calls home, when they worked on the tune, a lilting, slow-burning track that gradually blooms like a flower. At the time, he knew there was something there; perhaps it could be a bridge away from his critically acclaimed third album “Calico,” a gorgeous record that grappled with the end of a relationship by examining its finer details, as if to grasp at them one last time before they slipped away.
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