Some artists strive to tap into a specific late night energy born on dance floors and in the dark of the club with their music, hoping to transport listeners with them. DEBBY FRIDAY, in all her enigmatic experimental electronic form, goes one step further and asks: What’s on the other side of that darkness?

GOOD LUCK, the debut full-length from the Canadian-by-way-of-Nigerian artist, confidently smashes through club doors and pulls you into parts unknown within the self that are equal parts seductive as they are wicked. The energy she uncovers on the other side may use electronic music as its portal of entry, but unlocks something entirely alternative to that from within, seeing its way through like a hall of mirrors in sounds warped by reflective emotions.

At her most brash, FRIDAY conjures forces that are menacingly confident in a clash of industrial and hyper-trance of IDM hedonism. At her most vulnerable, she’s flirtatiously swirling around the drain of a mercurial gothic R&B pool. The album’s closer, “WAKE UP”, is a collision of haze and glitched out noise, sucking you back into the light of reality.

It’s a freakish and boundless altered zone, and what you experience within DEBBY FRIDAY’s realm is what you take back into the world to make any minute feel as alive as those fleeting late night thrills.

Highlights: “SO HARD TO TELL”, “WHAT A MAN”, “SAFE”

DEBBY FRIDAY’s GOOD LUCK is available now on Sub Pop.

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