Francis of Delirium

The duo of vocalist and guitarist Jana Bahrich alongside drummer and producer Chris Hewett forms Francis of Delirium, whose emotive anthems emerge from meticulously crafted songwriting rooted in both members’ affinity for ’90s grunge. Their breakthrough arrived via the 2020 single “Quit Fucking Around,” after which they channeled the first half of the decade into a sequence of cathartic EPs that preceded the romance-centered debut album Lighthouse, released in 2024.

Jana Bahrich, born in Vancouver, Canada, and raised in Luxembourg, grew up identifying as a band kid who began violin lessons at age five before expanding to guitar, banjo, piano, and French horn. At fourteen she accepted an invitation from classmates to join the family band led by their father, Chris Hewett; together they performed covers in neighborhood bars, forging a tight musical connection. Years of accumulated original material later prompted Bahrich to recruit Hewett for a dedicated project, which they named Francis of Delirium after a resident of her grandparents’ care facility. Recording sessions began in 2019, yielding the five-track debut EP All Change in 2020—an exploration of inner conflict shaped by grunge influences and carried by Bahrich’s direct vocal delivery. The follow-up, Wading, appeared in 2021 and examined post-high-school isolation, while 2022’s The Funhouse arrived with supporting dates alongside the Districts. In 2023 a run of singles—“Real Love,” “First Touch,” “Blue Tuesday,” and “Give It Back to Me”—each accompanied by original lino prints, sketched chapters of a romantic storyline that coalesced the following year into Lighthouse. The album probes romantic uncertainty through Bahrich’s melodic guitar work and Hewett’s adaptable drumming; five of its songs later resurfaced in stripped-down acoustic arrangements on the Soft Versions EP, issued later in 2024.