Galantis Reimagines The Killers, Feist and Extra in New EP, 'The Satan's Tax Return: Quantity 1'

“I’m the satan for messing with a traditional.”

Galantis knew he was taking part in with hearth.

For the Miike Snow member and co-writer of Britney Spears’ ‘Poisonous,’ his new EP provides one other private lens on his artistic strategy. Whereas 2024’s Rx album explored neurodivergence and music’s therapeutic function, his newest venture providing turns towards the songs that captured his creativeness as a listener and the artistic potentialities nonetheless ready inside them, years after that preliminary connection took maintain.

Out now through Counter Information, The Satan’s Tax Return: Quantity 1 finds the chart-topping producer transforming six songs spanning generations and genres. Amongst them is a brand new interpretation of The Killers’ 2006 alt-rock traditional ‘When You Have been Younger.’

The track’s arena-sized melody was the draw for Galantis. In a press launch shared with EDM.com, he explains that he wished to loop his favourite passages whereas introducing a playful “garage-born bass and beat.” His description will get on the venture’s central impulse to take the moments that made these songs stick, and discover new methods to amplify them.

Getting there, nevertheless, required a late intervention. Galantis advised MusicRadar that he had repeatedly deserted the rework and initially submitted the EP with out it. Throughout Easter weekend, he requested one other 48 hours, sped the observe as much as 133 BPM and located the storage path was what lastly made it click on.

Elsewhere on the EP, he reworks Feist’s ‘1234,’ Frankie Valli’s ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ and José González’s ‘Keep Alive’ from the 2013 movie The Secret Lifetime of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller, amongst others. On the Valli rework, Galantis preserves the chord development by vocoders and soaks the acquainted hook in reverb, successfully reframing the observe’s most recognizable passages with out surrendering its attraction.

You’ll be able to take heed to The Satan’s Tax Return: Quantity 1 under and discover the brand new EP on streaming platforms right here.