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Magpie - Stephen Fretwell
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  1. Do You Want to Come With?
  2. What's That You Say Little Girl
  3. Run
  4. Bad Bad You, Bad Bad Me
  5. Rose
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  1. Do You Want to Come With?
  2. What's That You Say Little Girl
  3. Run
  4. Bad Bad You, Bad Bad Me
  5. Rose
  6. Lost Without You
  7. Emily
  8. Lines
  9. Play
  10. Brother
  11. New York #
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English singer/songwriter Stephen Fretwell declares his lonely and amorous intentions during the first few seconds of his Fiction/Interscope debut with a solitary piano note surrounded by the distant screeching of seagulls. Listeners turned off by the image may as well give up right there, as the remaining tracks on Magpie expound on the mellow ache of heartbreak and self-doubt with nary a crack in the sun to be had. Fretwell's soft and breathy delivery is reminiscent of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy or a less brooding Leonard Cohen, ...

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Magpie 2006, Fiction/Interscope

UPC: 602498699300

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