Biography

"The album became about showing a man going through a complete unraveling of their conditioning, and by the time I’d finished working on it I’d started to identify as non-binary." The debut LP from Miles Francis, Good Man is a work of paradox: a nuanced exploration of masculinity and all its trappings, presented in a sound that’s joyfully unfettered. Produced by Francis and recorded in their longtime studio, Good Man arrives as the most visionary and elaborately realized output yet from a polymathic artist known for collaborating with the likes of Angelique Kidjo, Antibalas, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Arcade Fire's Will Butler, and EMEFE, among others. In dreaming up the album’s sound, Francis embraced an experimental process that involved elegantly merging their most formative yet varied musical influences. “I grew up with boy-band posters from floor to ceiling in my bedroom, and that music dominated my life when I was young,” they point out. “Later on I studied Afrobeat music, which helped me to get to a place where I could be totally free in my musical expression - and then all of the worlds began to collide.” Also naming shapeshifters like Prince and David Bowie among their essential touchstones, Francis ultimately alchemized those inspirations into a highly percussive form of art-pop, both lavishly orchestrated and visceral in impact.