Biking With Francis began when Garrett and Max started college in North Carolina with plans to make music together. Garrett was working on his first album, which birthed the name and alter ego “francis.” Max had just finished a song called “bike.” While the two were brainstorming a joint email address name and “label” name to release music under, inspiration sparked for “Biking With Francis.”
The two began making music nonstop together and met Joshua in 2022, slowly recruiting him to join the band and officially starting Biking With Francis. Each of the members has his own unique set of artistic influences, and you can hear references to some of these heroes in their music including Tyler, the Creator, Steve Lacy, and Brockhampton. The genre-bending boy band describe their efforts as “combining the lushness of indie & bedroom pop with the bite of a hip hop influence to create a uniquely contagious sound.”