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frYars Live at the Quad LSE
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180121892011&ref=share
Hit that Link Above for Details about free tickets.
and below for everything else.
Batteries Not Included 10pm- 3am, The Quad, LSE, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE (Nearest tubes Holborn, Temple & Charing X) www.batteriesnotincludedclub.com
October 2009
4 posts
frYars Interview
http://www.rocksellout.com/home/2009/10/30/interview-fryars.html
Condemned to Rock and Roll Review
I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for London-based artist, frYars (real name: Ben Garrett) to release a full proper album. His two EPs, The Ides and The Perfidy (the latter of which I reviewed here), were fantastically dark and odd, and so I waited patiently for the debut album, Dark Young Hearts, which just released a few weeks ago, and like Patrick Wolf’s latest, was financially supported...
Drowned in Sound Review
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14705/reviews/4138024
Synthesisers are ever present in the modern age. You would have though the Eighties would have killed them off, but now they dominate, in this pretend wave of female popstars and in the synthpop indiestars, pretending this didn’t get boring twenty years back. frYars, one London man named Ben Garrett plus friends, clearly recognises...
September 2009
44 posts
Two Videos
What links these two videos?
Gigwise Review
Rarely is title so perfect for a release. Yet ‘Dark Young Hearts’ perfectly sums up the bizarre song writing of frYars. A one man effort (who takes a band live), its no pun to call frYars the Rasputin of pop music scene. Bizarre lyrics over-set slightly warped pop tunes. Taking the lullaby chorus of ‘The Ides’ (no, not a typo) of “You should have died that very night”sets a...
Daily Mail Review
FRYARS Dark Young Hearts (Fryarcorp) London teenager Ben Garrett (aka frYars) finally seems poised to fulfil his potential. This debut uses clattering keyboards and vaudevillian rhythms to create a formidable wall of sound. Garrett has a fondness for the macabre, but he offsets his eccentricities with huge, memorable choruses on The Ides and Olive Eyes. Dave Gahan, of Depeche Mode, helps out on...
Randomtypes Review
This was something I had been anxiously waiting for at least 2 years and, boy, now that it’s here, I can truly say that it has filled all my expectations and then some. First things first, Ben Garret seems to have turned himself intro a true artist: instead of signing with a major label, he has instead followed the most difficult path and is releasing his debut album all by himself (well,...
Shakenstir
“There have ben a relatively high number of young British songer/songwriters who have offered pop music of a very different hue in 2009. Garrett heads them all by combining highly original instrumentation, diversity of sound, solid melodic foundations and intelligent lyrics. I can recommend this musical journey.”
from shakenstir.co.uk
Rough trade Homepage - Album of the Week →
Bearded Magazine review
http://beardedmagazine.co.uk/wp/?p=1243
a few corrections in bold.
Our interest in the past is getting pretty obsessive isn’t it? Think of some classic old band and there’ll be a contemporary equivalent for sure. Shit, the band you’re thinking of is probably imminently reforming due to their own retro addiction, an obsession with their own past. Fryars, a solo project by one Ben Garrett, has...
Arsene Wenger Quotations
“You ask 100 people, 99 will say it’s very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.” Arsene Wenger crosses Hughes off his Christmas card list after the Manchester City manager defended Emmanuel Adebayor’s alleged stamp on Robin van Persie.
“If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn’t say, ‘thank you very much’ and turn the other cheek....
Album Streaming : NME news →
Pre-Order the album
Dark Young Hearts is released on 21.09.09
Order the CD, Imports too, from Amazon, HMV, Play and for a Bonus CD the Rough Trade website. And any online record store or local record store hopefully. Maybe Norman records. I’m not sure if puregroove are doing pre-orders.
Sunday Times Link →
Sunday Times "breaking act" Piece
Ben Garrett, aka frYars, is from the same London school as Cajun Dance Party and Bombay Bicycle Club. Two acclaimed EPs of his wonderfully unpredictable music led to the obligatory label stampede, but the 19-year-old preferred the self-release route. Working with Luke Smith (of the late, lamented Clor), the Bees’ Paul Butler and Stephen Hague (Blur, Pet Shop Boys et al), each of whose work is a...
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BBC Music Review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xzgb
frYars is often smug. Lend debut album Dark Young Hearts an ear and you’ll recognise the self-satisfaction rising in a ribbiting froth from the dark end of Ben Garrett’s throat, getting tangled in his curly, brown hair and leaving dubious stains all over his moth bitten blazer. The question is: does frYars deserve to be smug? And if he does, does that...
Guardian Album Review in friday's paper
What the world probably doesn’t need now is another young Londoner enveloping himself in the electronic music of the 1980s, but Ben Garrett, aka Fryars, has made a compelling debut. Bearing the influence of Depeche Mode, among others – Dave Gahan even crops up to sing backing vocals on Visitors – Young Hearts is a yinning and yanging mixture of bright pop (think Pet Shop Boys), dark melodies...
The Fly (Live Review)
frYars Proud Gallery, London 05/09/2009
There are several available paths for anyone looking to burst from the bedroom: there are those who do so in an extravaganza of bedazzlement (with key examples being Badly Drawn Boy or, more recently, Kissy Sell Out), there are those who take an it’s-all-about-the-music approach that envelops them in enchanting enigma (Third Eye Foundation was pretty...
Pepsi Artist of the Week
Not sure what this is about or how it got there.
http://pepsidjcollective.com/blog/artist-of-the-week-fryars/
Another album review to read
From fake diy:
“Arresting, interesting, and (for the most part) a whole lot of fun.”
Read the rest here:
www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/albums/fryars-dark-young-hearts
It’s one of their ‘Recommended’ Albums.
