{"title":"Debby Friday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebby Friday is an experimental musician, filmmaker and writer. With a unique blend of genres and styles, she pushes the boundaries of music to create captivating and thought-provoking compositions. Her work explores themes of identity, technology, and social issues, often incorporating elements of noise, industrial, and electronic music. As a filmmaker and writer, Debby brings her multidisciplinary approach to storytelling, creating immersive experiences that challenge conventional narratives. Through her artistry, Debby Friday continues to redefine what it means to be an artist in the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"good-luck-6","title":"GOOD LUCK","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe usual boom-and-bust cycles of growing up - breaking down, gathering the strength to get up, fumbling hard, doing it all over again - can feel unmooring, to say the least, but, and according to Debby Friday, its tragedies and glories need savouring. Losing illusions, gaining expectations; getting deep into the private, soupy kaleidoscope of what’s possible and what’s futile - \u003ci\u003eGOOD LUCK\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut, and supernovic, full-length album, is built on welcoming the journey’s complicated drops and mountain highs with something more like grace. Nigerian-born, then an emigré to bits of Canada - from Montreal to Vancouver to Toronto - Debby Friday’s roamings through space and time really began when the sun fell. Nightlife was her emancipation from the toughness of home life, and she fell into it, body and soul, totally seduced. Raves til sunrise; house music in unknown basements and warehouses - the lure of the party was the perfect escape. Things that feel good sometimes do fall apart, though. In 2017, after DJing for less than a year, nothing was going the way that she wanted it to go. So she gathered her things and embarked on what would turn out to be the first of a few of her coming-of-age stories. After making the decision to stop herself in her tracks, she pulverized new paths for herself forward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate-night YouTube tutorials on music production led to an EP, \u003ci\u003eBITCHPUNK\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBITCHPUNK \u003c\/i\u003eled to her first public performances, and all that gave way to a second EP, \u003ci\u003eDEATH DRIVE\u003c\/i\u003e. Her art endowed her with the strength she needed to move on. “This is what I was born to do,” she goes. “It came to me so naturally and instinctively.” So what does it take to hone that power? Discipline - routines, rituals; an MFA, practices of writing and filmmaking, and music-making that guide a person from one day to the next - but something close to mysticism, too. Debby’S serious study of astrology, psychology, and philosophy allow her to move through the world, relate to others, and get closer to what’s inside her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The album \u003ci\u003eGOOD LUCK \u003c\/i\u003eis co-released with a short film of the same name, co-directed by Friday and Nathan De Paz Habib (past work includes Eroica, based on Chino Amobi's novel of the same name). It’s a story of individuation. It’s a love story about a woman and her masked beloved, but outside of the accompanying-but-stand-alone visual, it’s all a willing, yearning investigation into what goes on behind the veil of sadness, of cruelty. Because knowing the darkness is the only way to understand the light, but also the greys and the blues and the in-between states. 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It’s a thrilling album that brings her vision of radical honesty to the dance floor with empowering experimental pop anthems fueled by techno, post-punk, and hip-hop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn her kaleidoscopic second album, \u003cem\u003eThe Starrr Of The Queen Of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, Debby Friday defines success on her own terms. “I want to be a starrr, I can't hide that desire,” she says. “But what I don't want is to live someone else’s dream or to follow a pre-set path.” For the Nigerian-Canadian polymath, to be a starrr is to live at the extremes: public versus private, hubris versus humility, flying versus falling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a starrr means embracing the apocalyptic hedonism of an all-night rave—finding communion in the “dark room, girls in line for the bathroom” on the buzzing house anthem “All I Wanna Do Is Party”. It means swapping lines about bottles on ice and getting freaky on the dance floor with Detroit techno prodigies HiTech on “In The Club”—while admitting that she is, in fact, “barely on the dance floor these days.” It’s the sound of discovering what comes after the kind of success most artists only dream about—how to burn brightly without burning out. Across 11 songs, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life showcases Friday’s chameleonic vocals. From the sparse, gossamer beauty of the lovelorn “Leave.” to the locomotive post-punk of “Darker The Better.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinning the Polaris Prize in 2023 for her debut LP,\u003cem\u003e Good Luck\u003c\/em\u003e, only made Debby Friday want to grind harder: “I’m tryna see more\/ Man, I want the payoff” she raps over laser-like synths on the effortless copycat kiss-off “Lipsync.” But life on the razor’s edge can only be sustainable for so long: During a nonstop tour schedule in support of the album, she fell violently ill. The diagnosis? Stress-induced shingles. That experience forced Friday to turn her focus inward. The next year saw a change in management, in her routine and priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo help bring her vision of radical honesty on the dance floor to life, Friday recruited Australian producer Darcy Baylis (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal). Returning to their de-facto homebase in London in between touring, the pair traded ideas in the studio from morning until midnight. Layered with meaning, \u003cem\u003eThe Starrr Of The Queen Of Life\u003c\/em\u003e is brimming with coded, if-you-know-you-know references—weaving love letters and innuendos from the names of it girl perfumes, French cognac, and Hellenistic prophetesses who speak in tongues. 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