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FRYARS
touring with RAE MORRIS in February
critically acclaimed album POWER out now
Fryars will be touring his recently released, critically acclaimed new album Power this winter with Rae Morris after recently supporting Lily Allen on tour. Both Allen and Morris are frequent Fryars collaborators: he co-wrote two tracks on Allen’s number one album Sheezus and sometimes plays live with her, whilst he also features on - and produced - Cold, the recent Rae Morris single.
Fryars winter tour
11 December - Leeds, Canal Mills (w/ Wild Beasts)
12 December - Brixton, O2 Academy (w/ Lily Allen)
01 February - Liverpool, Kazimier (w/ Rae Morris)
03 February - Glasgow, King Tut’s (w/ Rae Morris)
04 February - Leeds, The Wardrobe (w/ Rae Morris)
05 February - Birmingham, The Institute (w/ Rae Morris)
06 February - Manchester, Gorilla (w/ Rae Morris)
08 February - Oxford, O2 Academy 2 (w/ Rae Morris)
10 February - Brighton, Komedia (w/ Rae Morris)
11 February - Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms (w/ Rae Morris)
12 February - London, Brixton Electric (w/ Rae Morris)
14 February - Bristol, The Thekla (w/ Rae Morris)
15 February - Nottingham, The Rescue Rooms (w/ Rae Morris)
16 February - Norwich, Arts Centre (w/ Rae Morris)
Fryars is the musical brainchild of London-based 24 year old Benjamin Garrett, whose peerless sound has won him fans from Kanye West to Depeche Mode. Power was produced by Fryars and Luke Smith, with additional production by Rodaidh McDonald (the xx, How to Dress Well, Savages), and includes the critically acclaimed singles Cool Like Me, Prettiest Ones Fly Highest and The Power.
Praise for Power
“Showcases his glitch-pop smarts” - Album of the Week, Sunday Times Culture
“A rampaging success… it was worth the wait” - 8.5/10, The Line of Best Fit
“Memorable melodies and visions of loneliness” - 4*, The Guardian
“Dramatic, sweeping numbers that flip the pop formula” - 4*, DIY
“Pulls at your body to dance and at your mind to think” - 8/10, The 405
“Brian Wilson-style psychedelia shades into electronic pop anthems” - 4*, The Financial Times
“A masterpiece: a sweepingly ambitious record unlike anything else you’ll hear this year” - NME
“a dazzling electro-pop construct” - Dazed
“Fryars is an electro pop wiz” - Pitchfork
“The new mad professor of pop” - The FADER
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