1. When You Get Out Of Jail
2. Whatever I Choose I Lose
3. Things Change
4. You're With The Wrong One
5. Sugar Water Days
6. Aint You The One
7. Love Is A Stranger
8. Friends In Lo Places
9. Back From The War
10. It's Too Late
11. Getaway
    

Fried are the result of former Fine Young Cannibal's songwriter David Steele's 5-year search for "the perfect singer". Steele discovered 23-year-old gospel singer Jonte Short at the 2001 New Orleans Jazz Festival and Fried were conceived.

Their self-titled debut album stunningly combines soul, funk & trip-hop beats with searing, emotive, soulful vocals. Short's voice moves effortlessly between Macy Gray, Lauren Hill and Aretha Franklin all helped of course by Steele's undeniable qualities as a tunesmith.

Highlights are the early Moorcheeba-esque "Whatever I Choose" (which Steele resisted attempts from Gray to acquire), the summer-evoking "Sugar Water Days" and the simple yet stunning "Love is a Stranger", co-written with Portishead's Beth Gibbons. With a dose of Wu-Tang Clan thrown in for good measure (Rapper RZA provides additional vocals on "When You Get Out Of Jail") this all makes for a debut album up there with any other.

Expect to see much, much more of Fried in 2005.