[1] Funchess founded Light Asylum in 2007 and asked Bruno Coviello to join as keyboard player after hearing him play guitar for a friend's project.

It received generally positive reviews from Pitchfork,[4] Fact,[5] Mixmag,[6] NME,[7] XLR8R[8] and The Quietus.

[9] Coviello left the project in 2012 shortly after the debut LP was released to pursue other things.

[11] Funchess also collaborated with The Knife on the track "Stay Out Here" from the band's fourth album Shaking the Habitual in 2013.

[12] In 2022, Light Asylum performed at the Cold Waves music festival in Chicago and played two new songs.