UPDATED: frYars gets himself a new EP, tours with Goldfrapp

Young Londoner frYars will continue his steady rise into the public consciousness with a new EP to arrive in the midst of a spring/summer tour schedule.

The Perdify EP will be released through frYar Corp/Make Mine Records on the 17th of March and is 19-year-old Ben Garrett’s follow-up to last year’s The Ides EP. Here’s what’s on it:

‘Olive Eyes’
‘Benedict Arnold’
‘The Novelist's Wife’
‘Benedict Remixed’

Production on those came from known-ofs; the Bees' Paul Butler helping out on the middle two tracks while Luke Smith, formerly of Clor, returns after working on The Ides EP to twiddle on ‘Olive Eyes’ and ‘Benedict Remixed’.

Now, those tour dates - some of which, DiS has just learnt, see frYars lending support to Goldfrapp:

February
22 BBC Radio 1 Rob Da Bank Session

March
7 Dream Factory Latvia
12 London Soho Revue Bar
13 BBC 6Music Queens of Noize Session
27 London the Borderline

April
8 London Madame Jojo’s
25 Amsterdam Paradiso

June
21 Bexhill-on-Sea De La Warr Pavilion *
22 Birmingham Symphony Hall *
23 Manchester Bridgewater Hall *
25 London Royal Albert Hall *
30 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall *

July
1 Gateshead Sage *

* = w/ Goldfrapp

Read our glowing review of The Ides EP here, if you like.

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