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Approved: Debby Friday
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 9 November 2021
With an output that spans music, filmmaking, audio production, writing and spoken word, Debby Friday is an endlessly interesting artist who provides numerous rabbit holes to follow, despite being in the relatively early stages of her career.
Releasing her first recordings back in 2018, she has embarked on a seemingly uncompromising journey into her own creativity since then. Earlier this year, she completed a masters degree in Fine Art, submitting an audio play, ‘Link Sick’, as her thesis project – a 40 minute story which she wrote and soundtracked. A second audio play, titled ‘VOW’, was then premiered at the Ottawa Art Gallery in September.
Alongside all that, Friday is also working on her debut album, the second single from which – following ‘Runnin’ earlier this year – is out now. Titled ‘Focus’, it is a bold representation of her experimental electronic production with spoken word vocals. Accompanying it is an equally striking video, which features specially shot footage of an avalanche.
“I wrote this song in 2019, when I first started thinking about writing an album and the possibility of pursuing my creative passions as my career was making itself known to me”, she says. “I kept debating with myself, ‘do I want this or do I not want this?’ It’s a heavy question. The video also speaks to this. The whole process was like undergoing some sort of fire baptism. It was difficult and chaotic and supernatural. I felt like I was the mountain, cracking open and spilling forth”.
“Getting the logistics of everything together was the most stressful part”, she says of the video. “It’s not every day that you have to figure out how to make an avalanche and take fire bullwhip cracking lessons. Thankfully, I had a really supportive crew the whole way through. It took a lot but I feel like this song and video marks a turning point for me that I can’t exactly name yet”.
Stay tuned for more information on that debut album. For now, watch the video for ‘Focus’ here:
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