Galantis is the collaborative production duo of Christian Karlsson (aka Bloodshy, one-third of Miike Snow) and Linus Eklöw (aka Style of Eye).
Their debut album Pharmacy reached No. 1 on the Billboard Dance album chart on the strength of hit singles ‘Peanut Butter Jelly’ and ‘Runaway (U & I)’. More recently, ‘No Money’ became their biggest song to date – garnering 600 million streams globally, 288 million YouTube views, and reaching the Top 10 on iTunes in 43 countries. Collectively, the duo has amassed over 1 billion streams worldwide.
While The Pharmacy was recorded in a secluded studio in the Stockholm archipelago, The Aviary came together in a constant touring climate.
For Galantis, the key to their artistry’s evolution came in embracing change. Christian Karlsson points to an epiphany he had while visiting an actual aviary in Hong Kong that helped inspire the new album’s namesake—“I stepped into a world where everything was different…you see beautiful birds and it feels like it’s real, but it’s not completely real. I was thinking, ‘this is what we feel like when we are trying to write songs in the studio.’ Our minds are like an aviary, we just have to go in and find that beauty in there.”