The Beths – Mother, Pray For Me

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New Zealand’s The Beths have released four albums of pretty decent indie rock but this one song humbles the rest of their oeuvre. Mother, Pray For Me is a very stripped-down song in which singer Elizabeth Stokes, accompanied by just a guitar, sings about her mother — a first generation immigrant — and her mother’s relationship with religion. “I don’t have what you have / I don’t seek what you seek / But I’d never take it away / Mother, pray for me”

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