When Debby Friday began to reflect upon her life while creating her forthcoming debut album, there was one phrase that she wished she could go back in time to tell her younger self: “Good luck”. “I feel like this album is an ode to my adolescence,” she explains over Zoom from her home in Toronto. “An ode to the time in my life when I was so confused and lost, and I felt like such an outsider. I wanted to make something that would speak to that, but speak to it from the other side.”

Eventually becoming the title of her upcoming project, ‘GOOD LUCK’ finds the producer and songwriter exploring “the struggles, the trials, the tribulations, but also the joys and the triumphs and all the stuff in between” over a soundscape that flows between electronic experimentation and music ready for a sweaty, 2am warehouse rave.

It was in a similar setting that Debby first found her love of music. Born in Nigeria before emigrating to Canada, while she was studying for a degree in political science during the day, at night she would find herself drawn to Toronto’s underground music scene, spending her evenings immersed in the “complete creative freedom” that it brought. “I loved going out and partying and going to clubs, so I thought I might as well DJ and get paid to be there,” she recalls. “In a parallel universe, maybe I’m a lawyer, but definitely still going to raves!”