Atlas Genius is an Australian alternative rock band formed in Adelaide, Australia in November 2009.

[6] They gained a residency at a local pub, The Lion, which helped raise funds for their home studio.

[1][2] They entered the track on national radio station Triple J's talent contest Unearthed's website.

In the United States in June, "Trojans" received its first favorable review from Neon Gold's Andrew Hwang, who proclaimed that, "[the group] knocks on your door and creeps into your peripheries in stealth mode" and that the single "approaches Phoenix-esque levels of infectiousness".

[8] By September that year, it was placed on high rotation by satellite radio station Sirius XM's Alt Nation channel.

[10] Other reviewers called the single "slick"[11] and "a solid summer jam" with "melancholy introspection" and "finger-snapping funk".

[15] To support the EP they provided a music video for another track, "Symptoms", which was directed by Claire Marie Vogel and featured on Vimeo as a staff pick.

[17] Drum Media's Dylan Stewart felt the "sound across the 11 tracks ... is incredibly diverse ... where tribal drums will have feet tapping and heads bopping, and plenty of tunes that will find themselves on beer commercials next summer as the soundtrack to pretty young hipsters on rooftops".

On 23 June 2015, the band revealed a new single, "Molecules", and announced the release date for their new album, Inanimate Objects, out 28 August 2015.

[23] On 27 July 2017, the band revealed a new single, "63 Days", and announced a North American tour with special guests Magic Giant, Flor, and Half the Animal.