In October 2015 the Matches released a new single, “Life of a Match”, with “Crucial Comeback Song (Mary Claire)” as the B-side. Harris and San Souci created the artwork for the single. A music video for “Life of a Match” was released, consisting of snippets of other bands’ music videos as well as the Matches’ own past ones. The band played two shows at the Fillmore that December. Harris started a solo surf rock project called St. Ranger, releasing the album Leaves L.A. in February 2016. Later that year, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Decomposer , the Matches re-released the album as a double LP; the second disc, titled Precomposer , consisted of demos the band had recorded while writing the album. That April they released an animated music video for the Decomposer song “Little Maggots”; they had begun work on the video in 2006 but left it unfinished. In May and June the Matches played three shows in Australia and five in the United States, performing Decomposer in full. A performance at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles was recorded, and released digitally as the live album Recomposer .
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