By mid-2012, following touring in support of Jebediah's "Kosciuzko", Mitchell had commenced work for his fourth Bob Evans album, "Familiar Stranger" (15 March 2013). Mitchell wrote about 40 tracks to select from for the album, he told Kathy McCabe of the "Herald Sun" newspaper: "This time, for the first time, I put the songs in order before we started recording and kept that order in mind because I wanted to make a soundtrack to the movie in my brain." In August 2012 Mitchell entered the recording studio for that album.