DEBBY FRIDAY’S THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE IS AVAILABLE TODAY WORLDWIDE THROUGH SUB POP AND IN CANADA FROM ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS
WATCH / SHARE “ALBERTA” HERE
BUY / STREAM THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR TICKETS HERE
“Throughout the record, Friday oscillates between extremes, at times soft and coy, at others harsh and direct, but she's always loved playing around with duality. On the album's first single, 1/17, Friday is in a trance, her voice gentle and melodic as she sings an ode to her lover. On Lipsync, she's boldly confident, spitting matter-of-factly over ricocheting beats.” CBC Music
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The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, Debby Friday’s luminous and expansive new album, and the follow-up to GOOD LUCK, her Polaris Music Prize winning, full-length debut, is out today worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Royal Mountain Records. The album features the highlights “Bet On Me”, “Lipsync”, “All I Wanna Do Is Party”, “1/17”, and today’s offering, the official video for the shoegaze dancehall track “Alberta”.
Friday codirected the somber and tearful “Alberta” visual with returning collaborator Kevan Funk. She says of the song, and the visual’s place in The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life universe, “Alberta encapsulates so much of what I’ve learned about love, grief, forgiveness and what it means to be together with others. I see your heart and I know that I and Thou are the same. In a way, it is the ultimate ethos of the album. I borrowed a little bit from David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for the video. There’s this hypnotizing transmission of a deep and shared sadness that happens during the Club Silencio scene that really shook me the first time I saw it.”
WATCH / SHARE “ALBERTA” HERE
The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life is available now on CD/LP/DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canda from Royal Mountain. LPs purchased from megamart.subpop.com in the US, MegaMart 2 in the UK and EU, Royal Mountain in Canada, Debby Friday’s live shows, and your local record store will receive the following limited color vinyl versions: the Sub Pop Loser editions on Graphite (US) and Bio Light Blue (EU/UK), and Royal Mountain’s edition on White (Canada) (All vinyl colors whilst stock lasts!).
Debby Friday will also appear at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival this Sunday. Please find a complete list of dates below.
WATCH / SHARE “LIPSYNC” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “ALL I WANNA DO IS PARTY” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “BET ON ME” HERE
TOUR DATES
Sun. Aug. 03 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Music and Arts Festival (2 pm)
Sun. Aug. 03 - Montreal, QC - Le Systeme - (Album Listening Party - 8 pm)
Thu. Sep. 25 - San Francisco, CA - California Academy of Sciences
Sun. Oct. 12 - Warsaw, PL - VooDoo Club
Tue. Oct.14 - Berlin, DE - Monarch
Wed. Oct. 15 - Hamburg, DE - Betty
Thu. Oct. 16 - Cologne, DE - Garage
Tue. Oct. 21 - London, UK - Club Cheek
Fri. Oct. 24 - Manchester, UK - Islington Mill
Thu. Oct. 30 - Brooklyn, NY - Public Records
Fri. Nov. 07 - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan Lounge
Fri. Nov. 14 - Mexico City, MX - Corona Capital Festival
Fri. Nov. 21 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
BUY / STREAM THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE HERE
PRAISE FOR DEBBY FRIDAY
“It's a sweaty, clubby effort that digs just deep enough into various underground styles (hello Detroit ghettotech phenoms HiTech) to lend it some authentic grit, and a production glow-up that matches FRIDAY's confidence better than anything on her debut.” 8/10, Exclaim!
“The result is a kinetic headrush of genre-blurring electro-pop, one that moves through genres at a breakneck speed.” Toronto Star
"The Toronto-based vocalist and producer Debby Friday won the Polaris Music Prize for her sharp 2023 debut album, Good Luck. She returns with the euphoric electro-pop single ‘1/17,’ a dance-floor confessional that shows off yet another side of her multifaceted talent. “I swear you’re a sign,” Friday sings in an airy atmosphere punctured by percolating synths. The track builds layer atop gauzy layer until it explodes in a burst of club-ready catharsis." [‘1/17”] The New York Times
"The song brings back some of that old PC Music feeling. It’s a euphoric, unapologetically cheesy trance-pop confection. As synth-bloops whirl all around her, Friday chants, “Poetry and nude selfies, love the way that you know me.” It feels like it’s heading toward a climactic beat-drop…the drums do eventually arrive, and that moment is awesome. Friday co-directed the bare-bones ‘1/17’ video with Kevan Funk, and it makes a great case for her as a performer." [‘1/17”] STEREOGUM
“The Starrr… has clearly been born of sweaty city nightclubs and subsequent comedowns, tying together dancefloor escapism and the shock of hurtling back to the real world.” ★★★★ DIY
“Last time we heard a single from Debby Friday, the Toronto artist was commanding girls to the dance floor on a minimal club track co-produced by Detroit rascals HiTech. She’s in a totally different headspace on the hyperpop ballad ‘1/17,’ singing about love and sensuality over bubbling synths which eventually give way to a euphoric trance finale.” [“1/17”] THE FACE
“It’s a banger” [“All I Wanna Do Is Party”] BROOKLYN VEGAN
“...fully three-dimensional in intent and tone, it finds Debby Friday severing herself from the past. Carnal and exultant…” [“All I Wanna Do Is Party”] CLASH
"Brooklyn drag queens and music directors of upcoming all-female action films: There’s a new irresistibly catchy, dark-pop song for your consideration." [“Lipsync”] NYLON
"The song is a bubbling electro-rap cut with half-spoken words from the Toronto-based songwriter, going full rave banger during the chorus. It almost makes me—who never wants to dance—wanna dance." [“Lipsync”] FLOOD
“hazy yet kinetic… the chanted vocals are a particularly delightful touch” [“Bet On Me”] Our Culture
“...riotous with self-belief” [“Bet On Me”] “The Playlist,” The Guardian
THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE TRACKLISTING:
1. 1/17
2. All I Wanna Do Is Party
3. In The Club feat. HiTech
4. Lipsync
5. Alberta
6. Higher
7. ppp (Interlude)
8. Arcadia
9. Leave.
10. Bet On Me
11. Darker The Better
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