[3] The band was formed by Shore and Altendahl for an audition at Berklee College of Music under the moniker The Blue before changing their name to Boyish.
The single 'FUCK YOU HEATHER' from Garden Spider premiered on Atwood Magazine and was played over 3,500,000 times on Spotify.
On May 27, 2022, Boyish released EP My Friend Mica, which was preceded by singles "Smithereens," "Congratulations," and "I Think I Hate It Here."
Shore and Altendahl said of their inspiration of the project, "we didn’t have a concept beyond what was happening in our lives at the time" and "The whole EP is like one long journal entry, or a stream of consciousness of the past year.
[9] In June 2023, Boyish released a single titled "Kill Your Pain", featuring King Princess.