Francis of Delirium, the project of Jana Bahrich, has announced her second album, Run, Run Pure Beauty, out May 29 via Dalliance Recordings. The LP is shaped around hope and perseverance amid bleak times.
Her latest single, “It’s a Beautiful Life,” searches for beauty within, building the song from fleeting moments that she observed. “A coffee I had with a pianist who was about to play a Philip Glass piece at the Philharmonie in Berlin, watching a couple break up on a New York City park bench, walking past a choir rehearsing in a basement, and examining a loneliness that feels ingrained into daily life,” Bahrich says. “I’m not denying pain but trying to find the beauty alongside it.”
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The video, directed by Kiyan Agadjani, pulls inspiration from classic teen films, featuring Bahrich and friends competing in a basketball game. “He sent me his short film Arman & Elisa, and I was incredibly impressed,” Bahrich says of Agadjani. “A year later, I went to him with an idea about gay basketball, and he was in. We started referencing movies like Little Miss Sunshine, Space Jam, and Juno and wrote a treatment about a ragtag team called ‘The Rats’ going up against a professional team, ‘The Giants.’ The video ended up being about perseverance and connection, both on and off screen. We cast a lot of our friends, musicians, artists, and filmmakers from Luxembourg, and I’m still not totally sure how it happened, but it took us eight months to finish.”
Watch the video for “It’s a Beautiful Life” and see the tracklist for Run, Run Pure Beauty below.
Francis of Delirium – Run, Run Pure Beauty tracklist
1. “Aliens”
2. “Out Tonight”
3. “Run, Run Pure Beauty”
4. “Higher”
5. “Damned”
6. “Little Black Dress”
7. “Sucker Punch”
8. “Open Up Your Mouth to Love”
9. “Requiem for a Dying Day”
10. “Modern Madonna”
11. “It’s a Beautiful Life”
Francis of Delirium 2026 tour dates
04/18 – Paris, FR @ Élysée Montmartre
04/20 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
04/21 – Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich
04/23 – Ursus, PL @ Klub Progresja
04/24 – Poznań, PL @ TAMA
04/26 – Köln, DE @ Bürgerhaus Stollwerck
