WATCH / SHARE “WHAT A MAN” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO HERE
DEBBY FRIDAY’S NEW ALBUM, GOOD LUCK, OUT NOW ON ARTS & CRAFTS IN CANADA
BUY / STREAM GOOD LUCK HERE
INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS APRIL
“Debby Friday's Good Luck is a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart, it hits you squarely in the chest and demands you tune in with every ounce of your being.” - CBC Music
“With standout songwriting, arrangements and production, GOOD LUCK's fearlessness feels earned and nomadically spirited. Like the glow emanating from FRIDAY on the LP's cover, she is the light that will guide her through. Embracing her past while looking forward, on GOOD LUCK, FRIDAY makes her own.” - Exclaim!
“the multi-dimensional experimentalist folds her previous lives into a compelling story for a stunning debut.” RANGE Magazine, Cover Story
“It sounds like a trip through a throbbing club. Industrial clashes and throbbing house transmute into pop hooks; songs about searching for oneself (So Hard to Tell) make way for the sound of self-assurance (I Got It).” - The Globe And Mail
“At once soaring, dramatic, reflective, hyper and explosive, Debby Friday’s debut album GOOD LUCK lands like a bomb on your lap — across 30 minutes, it zips around musical ideas, intriguing production, and lyrical clarity that shows she’s ready for this exact moment in music.” - Northern Transmissions
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Her supernovic debut record, DEBBY FRIDAY’S GOOD LUCK, is now available in Canada via Arts & Crafts and Sub Pop everywhere else.. Today, she is also sharing the incredible official video for “WHAT A MAN”, directed by Kevan Funk and DEBBY FRIDAY.
In a statement for the video, DEBBY FRIDAY offers this:
“The ‘WHAT A MAN’ music video is loosely based on the famous essay, Ways of Seeing, by English art critic John Berger as well as paintings by the Italian Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi (in particular, her iconic work “Judith Slaying Holofernes”).
In 1972, Berger released “Ways of Seeing” as both a television series via the BBC and a book. Both the series and the text function as image-based explorations of the depiction of women in Western art and culture. This work has been massively influential in cultural theory, as it introduced the concept of “the male gaze”.
Gentileschi is distinctive for being one of the only female professional artists of her era. Her paintings draw from myths and Biblical stories and almost always feature women as protagonists and equals to men. Arguably her most famous work, Judith Slaying Holofernes, is thought to be a self-portrait that depicts her as Judith slaying a Holofernes who resembles Agostino Tassi, a man who raped her when she was 17.
Both the essay and the paintings served as frameworks for the video. The same way that Gentileschi painted herself into images of other women is the same way I feel that every woman can see ourselves in much of Gentileschi's story and her work. To be a woman and an artist in this world is to be, in a way, a shapeshifter. You take on the shape of whatever and whoever is looking at you - whether that be a camera, a phone, a lover, a thief, a killer. Always and all at once, you are a spectacle, a flower, a treasure, a ditch, a bitch, a miracle.
“When I look at Artemisia’s paintings, I feel myself transported and transformed into the emotional field of Judith, of Jael, of Susanna. Her hand is my hand, her sword is my sword, her pain is my pain. I have always identified with women who were wild and brazen - survivors, people who exist and persist despite. I have always looked up to women who were willing to be ‘bad’ in the name of living thoroughly.”
DEBBY FRIDAY has extended her international headlining tour dates, and festival appearances supporting GOOD LUCK. Touring resumes next month and now runs through September including stops in Vancouver and Quebec City. Full tour dates can be found below.
Of her recent appearances at SXSW, Rolling Stone raved: “Welcome to Planet Debby: If you wandered into the back room at Empire Garage and Control Room at the right moment on Thursday afternoon, you found yourself in the middle of an interstellar rave in full swing. Toronto experimental artist Debby Friday was onstage, performing a thudding electro-rap song with hints of Azealia Banks and Donna Summer… Leaping off the stage into the small crowd, she demanded that they come closer — “I need your energy!” — and kept on chanting, in a long vamp that bent space and time. It was the kind of serendipitous moment that makes SXSW one of the best places in the world to discover a new favorite.”
BUY / STREAM GOOD LUCK HERE
Her upcoming short film ‘GOOD LUCK’ is a pseudo-autobiographical tale, largely drawn from FRIDAY’s own life and experiences growing up as a zillenial anti-heroine. A surrealist reflection on the tumultuous whirlwind that is the end of adolescence and the emotionality of youth, ‘GOOD LUCK’ is co-directed by FRIDAY and Nathan De Paz Habib (Chino Amobi’s Eroica, and The Bicycle).
WATCH / SHARE “I GOT IT FEAT. UÑAS” HERE
GOOD LUCK features “SO HARD TO TELL”, “I GOT IT”, “WHAT A MAN”, and “HOT LOVE”, was co-produced by DEBBY FRIDAY and Graham Walsh (METZ, Holy Fuck) at Candle Recording Studio in Toronto, and mastered by Heba Kadry in New York.
“SO HARD TO TELL”, “I GOT IT,” and “HOT LOVE” have earned DEBBY FRIDAY early praise from the likes of New York Times, Pitchfork, CBC Music, NPR Music, The FADER, Exclaim! Billboard, RANGE Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CRACK, Loud & Quiet, Slant, Nylon, FLOOD, Northern Transmissions, Cool Hunting, Brooklyn Vegan, Stereogum, Treble, Dork, DIY, CLASH, Our Culture and more.
WATCH / SHARE “SO HARD TO TELL” HERE
DEBBY FRIDAY ON TOUR
Wed. Apr. 12 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Thu. Apr. 13 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
Fri. Apr. 14 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon
Sat. Apr. 15 - Vancouver, BC - Cobalt
Wed. Apr. 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right
Thu. Apr. 20 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
Tue. May 02 - Bristol, UK - Crofters Rights
Wed. May 03 - London, UK - Corsica Studios w/ Grove
Fri. May 05 - Krems, AT - Donau Festival
Sat. May 06 Brussels, BE - Botanique (La Rotonde)
Tue. May 09 - Paris, FR - La Hasard Ludique
Wed. May 10 - Lisbon, PT - ZDB
Thu. May 11 - Leeds, UK - Headrow House
Fri. May 12 - Manchester, UK - The White Hotel
Thu. Jun. 08 - Melbourne, AU - Rising (Max Watts) w/ Desire Marea
Mon. Jun. 12 - Sydney, AU - Vivid Wavyland Metro Theatre
Sat. Jul. 08 - Québec City, QC - Festival d'été de Québec (FEQ)
Sun. Sep. 03 - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DEBBY FRIDAY:
"Her first full-length is sweaty and determined, eager to deliver on its teeth-chattering beats with a feverish intensity. The influences are obvious, but the ways that Debby Friday crashes those sounds together are not.” ["Album of the Week"] - STEREOGUM
“GOOD LUCK is an assured and frequently surprising debut that feels like a trip into the lascivious, eclectic wormhole of Friday’s world – and with so much to take in, and so much fun to be had, you won’t want to leave (8/10).” - CRACK
“There’s an extraordinary elasticity across GOOD LUCK’s masterful production that makes repeated listens not just enjoyable but irresistible (8/10).” - LOUD & QUIET
“...An album that testifies to the liberating potential of making a racket.” [GOOD LUCK] - SLANT
“An explosive, pounding, relentlessly calisthenic dance-floor banger with attitude to spare. A pulsating beat flickers like a strobe light as Friday and Chris Vargas of the duo Pelada, appearing here as Uñas, trade braggadocious bilingual verses. ‘Let mama give you what you need,’ Friday shrieks before calmly assuring, ‘I got it.’” [“I GOT IT”] - New York Times
"In contrast to the pulse-quickening tempos and noisy synths of her past music, her production is deft and graceful, with a skipping beat and cascading backing vocals. 'Lady Friday/All you do is rеbel,' Friday chastises herself—tough talk against a fragile, gorgeous sound." ["SO HARD TO TELL"/ "Best New Track"] - Pitchfork
“One of the young year’s most audacious bangers” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] - Billboard
“Hyperpop can sometimes come off as abrasive but in the hands of Canadian singer DEBBY FRIDAY it’s soulful, even elegant.” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] - NYLON
“A graceful entrance into yet another territory: lush R&B”[“SO HARD TO TELL”] - NPR Music
“If you’ve ever deep-dived into Debby Friday’s discography, you’ll know she slammed this single into left field, but man is it a hit! This edgy extraordinaire has taken a dip into the darkside via falsetto pop.” ” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] - MTV
“Friday strikes a remarkable balance on her forthcoming debut LP, GOOD LUCK: between the boisterous and the tranquil, the erudite and the crass, a packed dancefloor and quiet isolation. Featuring unequivocal bangers like “I Got It,” “Pluto Baby,” and “Heartbreakerrr,” Debby Friday is destined for bigger stages in 2023 (“15 Artists to Watch in 2023”).” - SPIN
GOOD LUCK TRACKLIST
1. GOOD LUCK
2. SO HARD TO TELL
3. I GOT IT (feat. Uñas)
4. HOT LOVE
5. HEARTBREAKERRR
6. WHAT A MAN
7. SAFE
8. LET U DOWN
9. PLUTO BABY
10. WAKE UP