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George Ezra's songwriting journeys lead to new album

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George Ezra can’t stand still. “Staying at Tamara’s,” his second album, arrives four years after “Wanted for Voyage,” which included breakthrough smash “Budapest,” and led to two years on tour and plenty of traveling.

Ezra gets writer’s block at home, so he took to the road to hone his songwriting. Barcelona was his first destination — the album title references the shared Airbnb he stayed at — but later stops in his native Britain included a pig farm and a pair of sheds.

Whether near or far, Ezra’s world view barely seems to change and usually some befuddlement involved.