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Francis of Delirium
The project of musician and visual artist Jana Bahrich, Francis of Delirium delivers emotive anthems that pull from her love of ’90s grunge and the tender grandeur of Sufjan Stevens, among other alternative-minded influences. After having a breakout with 2020’s “Quit Fucking Around,” Francis of Delirium spent the early 2020s issuing a set of cathartic EPs before debuting in full-length form with the romance-led LP Lighthouse in 2024. Only adding to the lush atmospheres of that album, the follow-up, Run, Run Pure Beauty, arrived in 2026.
The daughter of teachers, Jana Bahrich, grew up moving around: she was born in Belgium and lived in Switzerland and Canada before the family settled down in Luxembourg. A self-described band kid, she started playing the violin at age five and later branched out to guitar, banjo, piano, and French horn. At 14, her classmates invited her to join their family band, helmed by her friends’ father, Chris Hewett. Having amassed a collection of original songs and ideas over the years, Bahrich soon adopted the alias Francis of Delirium after a woman who lived in Bahrich’s grandparents’ care facility and enlisted Hewett to play bass and drums. By mid-2020, they had produced All Change, a five-track EP shaped by their shared love of grunge, delivering reflections from a conflicted headspace through Bahrich’s forward vocals. Francis of Delirium was operating as a solo project by the arrival of the next year’s Wading EP on Dalliance Recordings; it found Bahrich reflecting on feelings of isolation following the end of her high school years. The project’s third EP, April 2022’s The Funhouse, was accompanied by a tour in support of the Districts.