Strawberry Guy Reimagines Breakthrough Single “Mrs. Magic” with Strings

Welsh-born and Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Strawberry Guy (Alex Stephens) has shared a new gorgeously sculpted strings version of “Mrs. Magic.” In its original home-recorded form, “Mrs. Magic” served as Strawberry Guy’s breakthrough hit, racking up over a quarter-billion streams on the back of some serendipitous TikTok virality. This time, recording at Peter Gabriel’s idyllic Real World Studios with Manchester’s Northern Session Collective, “Mrs. Magic (Strings Version),” sounds even more sumptuous and surreal — you can just burrow into that string sound. The trip to Real World marks a first foray into studio recording for Strawberry Guy. It is a new high-fidelity direction for the project as he begins the process of making his sophomore album. Also available is the digital version o...

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