The group has self-released all of their music and has released physical editions on the Canadian indie/independent label Return to Analog.

Men I Trust was founded in 2014 by high school friends Jessy Caron and Dragos Chiriac, who reunited in the music department at Université Laval.

[5] In October and November 2016, the band embarked on a China tour, playing shows in Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai.

[6] On December 16, 2016, the band released the single "Plain View", alongside a music video made up of clips from their 2016 China Tour.

[6][7] On May 10, 2017, Men I Trust released the single "You Deserve This" alongside a music video filmed in Bucharest, Romania.

[14] In November 29, 2018, the group announced their third studio album Oncle Jazz, which released on September 13, 2019.

[4] In a conversation with writer Nick Fulton for Billboard, the band noted that the green, solitary confines of rural Quebec were influential in shaping how the album sounded.

Proulx stated "It put us in a really different creative mood and we were able to focus more, because there's nothing to do outside of the house except for walking and thinking about music.

On June 16, 2021, they were featured in an episode of the NPR web series Tiny Desk (Home) Concert recorded in Quebec.