Exotic, gaudy and lavish, Empire Of The Sun brings together two unlikely collaborators from Australian pop. Luke Steele, the enigmatic wunderkind behind The Sleepy Jackson, first met Pnau's Nick Littlemore via a mundane hook-up instigated by the latter's record company.
Thus began a friendship which Luke describes as "this fireball of electricity", and which eventually resulted in Walking On A Dream � a bold, visionary and quite brilliant album, which manages to sound exhilaratingly contemporary, audaciously forward-looking, yet also curiously...
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