Fryars
Benjamin Garrett, better known by his stage name Fryars (sometimes stylised frYars), is an English art pop musician from London.
Career
Fryars released his debut EP, The Ides, in September 2007, and was profiled as The Guardian's "New band of the week" in November. A second EP, The Perfidy, followed in March 2008. His debut album, Dark Young Hearts, was released in September 2009; its first single, "Visitors", features backing vocals from Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. In October 2012, Fryars issued the song "Love So Cold" online as a free download, followed by the EP In My Arms in January 2013 via 679 Recordings.
In October 2013, 679 released Fryars' EP Radio PWR, which was accompanied by a series of live shows devised with magician Simon Drake. Fryars' second album, Power', which he produced with Luke Smith (formerly of the band Clor) and Rodaidh McDonald, was released in November 2014 through Fiction Records. It followed a lengthy period of what he referred to as "record label limbo", during which he was released from 679 amid the acquisition of parent company Warner Music Group by Access Industries. He described the album as "a soundtrack to a film that does not exist", and released a "B-movie" in the form of an accompanying mixtape titled The Boy in the Hood, as well as developing social media profiles for its characters.Power received positive reviews from Dazed & Confused, The Guardian, and NME.
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Chocolate
by: FryarsAlice and Ivy In fights with Police,
There's a place round the corner I know
They took a turn,
And went the right way.
And they came and they hid in my show.
You Look Lost
Let me know where you want to go.
And then they cut our hair,
What a wonderful world,
What a wonderful world.
Then we had Clothes to wear.
What a wonderful boy,
What a wonderful girl, Said Alice and Ivy,
We're looking for surgeons, It really is time that we go,
They took a car,
And went to London,
And came to the Hospital, O,
You Look Lost Let me know what you want me to do.
And then Alice said she wants to be a girl
Feeling Hungry?
And the doctor said
Just eat this chocolate
And then Ivy said she wants to be a boy
Eat this chOcolate.
And the Doctor said
You're doing Fine
Ivy was a child,
She drank from straws,
She went a walking with the doors locked.
Alice was a devil,
With ivory bones,
HE had a shotgun it was sawn off.
Ivy drank testosterone,
And wanted just to be alone,
She said I will be a man one day,
Alice ate progesterone,
And just wanted to be alone,