Artist: Stephen Duffy
Album: I Love My Friends
Genre: Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 58:05
Total Tracks: 15
Total Size: 679 MB

Tracklist:

1. Stephen Duffy – Tune In (00:35)
2. Stephen Duffy – The Deal (04:30)
3. Stephen Duffy – Eucharist (03:32)
4. Stephen Duffy – Mao Badge (04:27)
5. Stephen Duffy – Lovers’ Beware (03:52)
6. Stephen Duffy – In the Evening of Her Day (05:36)
7. Stephen Duffy – Holding Hands with Grace (01:14)
8. Stephen Duffy – The Postcard (03:17)
9. Stephen Duffy – Seventeen (04:33)
10. Stephen Duffy – Twenty Three (04:07)
11. Stephen Duffy – Autopsy (03:40)
12. Stephen Duffy – She Belongs to All (03:18)
13. Stephen Duffy – One Day One of These Fucks Will Change Your Life (05:32)
14. Stephen Duffy – You Are (04:49)
15. Stephen Duffy – What If I Fell in Love with You? (04:55)

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Stephen Duffy’s 1996 solo album I Love My Friends available for the first time ever on vinyl and vinyl replica CD. Following a time of personal upheaval, the album was the result of an unprecedented creativity for Stephen. “The tunes and the words were coming faster than I could write them down. That’s the dichotomy of I Love My Friends. My interior world was falling apart, but creatively it was a charmed existence.” Strictly speaking, this version of I Love My Friends isn’t a reissue. On delivering the album to his label Indolent, Stephen was asked to record two more songs for putative single release. Produced by Andy Partridge, these songs necessitated the last-minute removal of two songs which have since passed into fan lore as two of Stephen’s all-time best: Mao Badge and In The Evening Of Her Day. This release of I Love My Friends restores these songs to the record, honouring Stephen’s original vision for the album. The two Andy Partridge-produced songs You Are and What If I Fell In Love With You? will be available on a seven-inch single which comes with all vinyl copies of I Love My Friends. They are added as bonus tracks to disc one of the CD version. In a 2015 appreciation of Stephen’s career, The Guardian singled out I Love My Friends as a high watermark: “Charming, touching and at times profoundly upsetting, it was a memoir of young loves and naive pop dreams that descended into raw tragedy on The Postcard, in which Duffy comes across a forgotten photograph of himself with a girlfriend who’d since died, and mourns her afresh. Heart-stopping stuff.” In 2003, The Sunday Times wrote “Duffy is creating a body of lyrically lacerating work that should win him gold discs rather than indifference.” While the 2019 vinyl release of I Love My Friends comes with a seven-inch containing the Partridge songs, the expanded 2019 CD release of I Love My Friends comes with an entire bonus disc of songs titled Blown Away – Selected Demos Volume 1.