Listener's Songs of the Week: New tracks by Bret McKenzie, Kirsten Morrell, Pickle Darling and more
All I Need
by Bret McKenzie
Three years after his slightly serious, very Californian, debut solo album Songs Without Jokes, Bret McKenzie is returning with a second, Freak Out City due out mid-August. First comes All I Need, a love song, says the publicity, for his wife
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