Launched in 2007 in Oakland, California, Francis and the Lights is the pop
passion project of producer, songwriter, and frontman Francis Farewell Starlite.
Born as "Abe Morre Katz-Milder" on June 14, 1981, Starlite grew up in California
and later attended Wesleyan University with MGMT's two co-founders. He made the
decision to pursue his own music career in 2007, launching the one-man band
Francis and the Lights and mining a mix of retro R&B, synth-pop, and modern
appeal with the project's debut EP, Striking. A second EP, A Modern Promise,
arrived the following year, with It'll B...