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Strawberry Guy Give Me A Dream: What to Know Before Release

A source-backed guide to the October release, its first single, and the physical editions already announced.

Strawberry Guy is releasing his second full-length album, Give Me A Dream, on October 23, 2026, through AWAL. It's his first new album since 2021's Sun Outside My Window, closing out a five-year gap between full-length records.

The album was announced on July 29, 2026, alongside the lead single "Love Me Like You Used To" and an official music video featuring actress Sadie Sandler, who is credited as "Daughter" in the cast. Two other songs had already surfaced before that formal announcement: "I'll Never Feel That Young Again" and "Mrs Magic." The second of those carries some history of its own — "Mrs Magic" is the 2019 single that first brought Strawberry Guy wider attention after it spread on TikTok, and it went on to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The Hot 100 appearance, on top of its viral spread, is part of why "Mrs Magic" carries weight even years after its original release. Folding it back into this album's rollout draws a direct line between the song that introduced the project and the record that's now closing out its five-year gap.

Strawberry Guy is the recording name of Alex Stephens, a Welsh artist whose Spotify page currently lists roughly 10.2 million monthly listeners. That's a sizable audience for Give Me A Dream to land in front of, given that it follows five years with only a handful of singles in between. The album itself is being released via AWAL, which handles the licensing on Stephens' behalf.

## Formats and Pre-Orders

Give Me A Dream is described as a 14-track record across multiple retail and press listings. Fourteen tracks is a fuller count for a project that took five years between full-lengths, giving the wait a tangible shape once the tracklist length and formats are laid out together. The album is available in two physical formats: a 180g double LP pressed on vinyl, housed in a gatefold jacket with etched detail and identified by UPC 5056167184362, and a separate CD edition. Having the format specifics and a UPC listed alongside the release date makes it straightforward to identify the correct pressing ahead of release. The artist's Linktree offers pre-orders for both formats, alongside tickets for the 2026 tour, putting the record and the live shows behind a single link rather than sending listeners to separate pages for each.

## The Give Me A Dream Tour

The record's release date lands in the middle of its own tour. The Give Me A Dream Tour 2026 runs through September and October across German cities, with additional dates including a stop in Vienna on October 7 — before the album's October 23 release. That means some of the tour's September dates fall before Give Me A Dream is officially released, weeks ahead of the October 23 date, rather than the tour starting once the record is out.

Taken together, the rollout traces a clear line: a 2021 debut, a return to "Mrs Magic" as part of the new singles run, a formal announcement on July 29 with a lead single and a video featuring actress Sadie Sandler, and a dated, fourteen-track album with confirmed physical formats and pre-orders open through Linktree. Having each of those points — the release date, the formats, the single, the tour schedule — laid out together makes Give Me A Dream easy to track, from the July single through the October tour dates to the record's arrival.

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