Strawberry Guy, aka Alex Stephens, announces his second studio album, Give Me A Dream, out on October 23rd. He’s also just released the single Love Me Like You Used To.

Straw­ber­ry Guy’s new sin­gle, Love Me Like You Used To, is an unashamed­ly open and emo­tion­al plea for love; in the video it is rep­re­sent­ed through the com­plex­i­ties of a father-daugh­ter rela­tion­ship as its female pro­tag­o­nist embarks on a phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al jour­ney where she has an epiphany – watch it and find out what hap­pens. It was pro­duced by Alex, who plays a brief role in the video. Shot in the US it stars Sadie San­dler (Room­mates, You Are So Not Invit­ed to My Bat Mitz­vah). The track is a dreamy and lush piano-led bal­lad with a slight­ly Bea­t­les-esque edge to its heart-stop­ping­ly beau­ti­ful intro. 

Says Alex:“I find I write in times of sad­ness to help me try and over­come or process my feel­ings. I think it’s real­ly impor­tant to reflect on issues this way because it gives me so much per­spec­tive. We all have dif­fi­cult rela­tion­ships and this is def­i­nite­ly a song about that.. I hope that this song can give peo­ple the same per­spec­tive and hope that it gave me.”

About the video, Alex says: “I was thrilled to have Sadie San­dler in the lead role for the music video. She did such an incred­i­ble job. I met her after my song ‘Mrs Mag­ic’ fea­tured in the won­der­ful film ‘Room­mates’ which she starred in. After I came up with the sto­ry, I thought Sadie would be real­ly great for the role and I’m so glad she said yes!”

The new album Give Me A Dream will be out in Octo­ber (review to come).

“Music is a way of giv­ing myself hope and clar­i­ty.” says Alex. “And I think that if I can give that to oth­er peo­ple, then that’s a beau­ti­ful thing.” 

Straw­ber­ry Guy also recent­ly announced a UK and Euro­pean Autumn tour, UK dates below:
Fri 18 Sep 26 Man­ches­ter – Band On The Wall
Sun 20 Sep 26 –Lon­don – Scala

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