Fryars, aka London man Benjamin Garrett last featured here, about this time last year for his excellent ‘Cool Like Me’ single. He sometimes plays with Lily Allen and was notable since for letting a journalist go beyond a “backstage” piece to actually play live in the band.
He’s had a few songs since then but new single ‘Prettiest Ones Fly The Highest’ has that previously-featured track’s sense of sonic fun, as it falls somewhere between soul, rap vocal interlude pisstake and pop gem. It’s from Fryars’ album Power, which is out in November (aaaages away) on Fiction but features those two songs in the pre-order. Fryars is also on the new Rae Morris single.
FRYARS – POWER // Track list
- Power Up)
- On Your Own
- In My Arms
- Don’t Make It Hard On Yourself
- Love So Cold
- Prettiest Ones Fly Highest
- (Dialogue 1)
- China Voyage
- Sequoia
- Can’t Stop Loving You
- The Power
- (Dialogue 2)
- Thing Of Beauty
- (Tide You Over)
- Cool Like Me
- (Over And Out)
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
