Drax Project's members are all originally from different towns in New Zealand; Shaan grew up in Kapiti, Matt in Upper Hutt, Sam in New Plymouth and Ben from Waihi Beach.

Matt and Shaan started busking together in their first year of attending University at The New Zealand School Of Music's jazz programme.

Drax Project; composed of Shaan Singh on saxophone and Matt Beachen on drums (the origin of the band's name is a portmanteau of 'drums' and 'sax').

[6] A friend of O'Leary's produced the extended play as a part of his final year assignment for music school.

[4] The extended play's first single "Cold" was successful on Spotify, reaching #1 on their viral chart and being streamed over 160,000 times in three months.

[3] In 2017, Drax Project opened for Lorde's Auckland concert of her Melodrama World Tour in November 2017,[7] as well as New Zealand band Six60.