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Out April 7 2025
Half Ball Pit Half Bloodbath & Remixes

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“I’m angry at the rich,” says Devin James Fry.  “Arrogant, mostly white male twerps who build heedless corporations that sacrifice workers and the planet for profit.”

 

It’s anger that can turn inward for the former Name Sayers vocalist, who is entering his 16th year as owner/operator of boutique surgical sharpening firm The Sharpist.  “One of the hellish parts of surviving capitalism is feeling complicit in it.”

 

“This song’s a Fuck You to that creeping complicity.  I wanted to say it, and say it again, and keep saying it.”

 

Half Ball Pit Half Bloodbath & Remixes is a new single, served ten ways.  Fry plays the agitator with three original versions, starting with the pared down gloom-bap of the album’s opener, and culminating in the lavish, heartstopping disco of album highlight “Can’t Say If It’s The Drugs.”  Not content to go it alone, Fry, an active organizer with the Denver chapter of the Industrial Workers of The World, sought solidarity by tapping eight leading electronic artists from Denver’s heady and hard-partying modular synth scene, each of whom enthusiastically threw down all-hardware, no-laptop remixes of their own.

 

The result is a striking amount of variety, and Fry’s most adventurous release yet.  Tracks by Denver synth maestro (and half of pioneering rap-and-electro duo Reverb and the Verse) manmademadman bookend the proceedings, quickening the pulse at track 2 before chilling the spine at track 9.  A masterful rave-ready banger from Atonal Stimulant courses through the veins at track 3, setting the stage for a playful ALX-106 throwback fit for strobe-lit afters.  Warped, inventive propulsion from techno purists Sxlf Destruct leaves listeners catching their breath during the opening bars of “Can’t Say If It’s The Drugs,” an ardent disco journey devised by Fry with lifelong best friend and collaborator Brendan Hunt.  The album’s back half is anchored by Otem Rellik’s exquisitely hi-fi bedroom trip-hop, which goes toe to toe with hot & heavy industrial destruction courtesy Lincoln, Nebraska’s Plack Blague, the album’s only non-Denver contributor.  Fry concludes this rally with the somber and sinuous taishogoto-fueled meditation No Last Warning.

 

Half Ball Pit Half Bloodbath & Remixes will be available on select streaming platforms April 7, 2025. 

 

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Live at the Mohawk in Austin
July 6 2024

CREDITS

Composition, lyrics, modular synths, vocals for all tracks by Devin James Fry, with additional vocals by Cassandra Hayes

 

Additional composition, guitar, keyboards, and bass on Track 6 “Can’t Say If It’s The Drugs” by Brendan Hunt

 

Taishagoto, ukulele, bass, and percussion on Track 10 “No Last Warning” by Devin James Fry

 

Tracks 1, 6, and 10 recorded and mixed by Devin James Fry

 

Additional composition, recording, and mixing on remix tracks by their respective remixers.

 

Mastered by Max Lorenzen at Rare Ear in Lockhart, Texas

 

Cover photo by Cassandra Hayes

INTERVIEWS

PRESS

Press photo for Devin James Fry album Retrellion. Photo credit: Cassandra Hayes

Out there with his weirdness in the best possible way."

Global Dance Electronic

Devin James Fry forest portrait

"A wandering soul unafraid of the dark."

KUTX 98.9 (Austin, Texas)

Press photo of Devin James Fry with a hearse

"Somewhere between a horror film and an Americana answer to a young Nick Cave."

Los Angeles Times, 2008

Press photo for Devin James Fry album Retrellion

"A musical shape-shifter ...
has moved from
a lighter sound
to something
more psychedelic,
something heavier." 

WBEZ Chicago

Press photo for Devin James Fry. Photo credit: Cassandra Hayes

Like Leonard Cohen on a DMT vision quest."

The Austin Chronicle

Press photo for Devin James Fry album Retrellion

"Delivers a bitches brew of sound ... Fry's deep tenor imbues lyrics with ominous flavors, giving an eerie, radioactive flow."

Tattoo.com

Still from video for Devin James Fry song Purple Glue

"Far from the typical artist ... really, really, taking it there with his creations.

Breaking And Entering

Press photo for Devin James Fry song Purple Glue

"Multi instrumentalist & musical shaman."

OVRLD

Portrait of Devin James Fry. Photo credit: Dylan O'Connor

Devin James Fry is a hardware musician in Denver, CO.  He is former vocalist and songwriter for the art rock band Name Sayers and psychedelic Americana outfit Salesman

 

Fry is also owner and operator of The Sharpist, a surgical sharpening firm specializing in B/HRT and OB/GYN surgical instruments.

Previously, a synth-heavy solo album titled RETRELLION was released in April 2023. ​In 2020, several years of collaboration with Palestinian oud master Sari Andoni yielded RADICANS, a mingling of Arab and American psychedelic and folk music influences.

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Devin James Fry and the Jitter Getter

MERCH

Devin James Fry Retrellion LP Merch

RETRELLION LP (180 GRAM)

Devin James Fry Black Rainbow lathecut single

BLACK RAINBOW LATHECUT SINGLE
on RECYCLED ACETATE

PURPLE GLUE INCENSE

BLACK RAINBOW COLORING BOOK

Handmade Black Rainbow (ft. Chris Conde) soap by Beanblossom Soaps

BLACK RAINBOW SOAP
by BEANBLOSSOM SOAPS

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RETRELLION 11" x 17" POSTER

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PURPLE GLUE LATHECUT SINGLE
on RECYCLED ACETATE

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PURPLE GLUE MATCHBOOKS

PHOTOS

Bio

OTHER DJF RELEASES

SOLO ALBUM 2023

WITH NAME SAYERS

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